Pink Floyd Research Paper

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Pink Floyd
The Dark Side of The Moon

By Alais Galvez

Pasadena City
Professor Kyle Luck
College Music 24B
History of Rock Music
May 4, 2018

“Pink Floyd were an English Rock band formed in London in 1965”. (Wikipedia) On March 1, 1973, a band called Pink Floyd released an album called, The Dark Side of the Moon. The songs on the album, The Dark Side of the Moon is “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun,” “Echoes,” “Breathe,” “On the Run,” “Time,” “The Great Gig in the Sky,” “ Money,” “Us and Them,” “ Brain Damage,” “Eclipse,” Pink Floyd were founded base on a group of students/ friends; Sid Barrett originally on guitar and lead vocals, Roger Waters on bass and vocals, Nick Mason on drums, Richard Wrights on keyboards and David Gilmour as guitarist. The Dark Side of the Moon was the first album that featured Roger Waters as the only lyricist. The album that came before and after The Dark Side of the Moon is in 1972 Obscured by Clouds and in 1975 Wish You Were Here
During the documentary, a Rolling Stones Senior Editor David F. stated, "It was the first time seeing the band
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Richard describes as, " Another form of jazz basically… was inspired down to a single cord by a Miles Davis Album." The only difference is the Pink Floyd mixed it with a blues and jazz. Also giving the song an indirect meaning during the lyrics. " A number of things impinge upon an individual color his view of existence. Newtonian view of that physics", " They would play up for an hour or two A and E minor” as Rogers, explains the song. Eventually, as the band got something it only took up to 5 minutes. During the beginning of the song, there was a little clip of a woman sounding like she was screaming, throughout the whole song there is a continuous loop of a broken chord going back and

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