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'Speak to Me': The Legacy of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (Hardcover)
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'Speak to Me': The Legacy of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (Hardcover)
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The endurance of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon on the
Billboard Top 100 Chart is legendary, and its continuing sales and
ongoing radio airplay ensure its inclusion on almost every
conceivable list of rock's greatest albums. This collection of
essays provides indispensable studies of the monumental 1973 album
from a variety of musical, cultural, literary and social
perspectives. The development and change of the songs is considered
closely, from the earliest recordings through to the live, filmed
performance at London's Earls Court in 1994. The band became almost
synonymous with audio-visual innovations, and the performances of
the album at live shows were spectacular moments of mass-culture
although Roger Waters himself spoke out against such mass
spectacles. The band's stage performances of the album serve to
illustrate the multifaceted and complicated relationship between
modern culture and technology. The album is therefore placed within
the context of developments in late 1960s/early 1970s popular
music, with particular focus on the use of a variety of segues
between tracks which give the album a multidimensional unity that
is lacking in Pink Floyd's later concept albums. Beginning with
'Breathe' and culminating in 'Eclipse', a tonal and motivic
coherence unifies the structure of this modern song cycle. The
album is also considered in the light of modern day 'tribute'
bands, with a discussion of the social groups who have the
strongest response to the music being elaborated alongside the
status of mediated representations and their relation to the 'real'
Pink Floyd.
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