1973 - The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

50 Years Ago - 1973 Pink Floyd released their eighth album The Dark Side of the Moon.

This is the third best-selling album of all time. Alan Parsons was the producer and the album charted on the Billboard 200 chart for 971 weeks.

Each side of the album is a continuous piece of music. The five tracks on each side reflect various stages of human life, beginning and ending with a heartbeat, exploring the nature of the human experience and, according to Roger Waters, "empathy."

The now classic cover design depicts a glass prism dispersing light into colour. The design represents three elements: the band's stage lighting, the album lyrics, and Wright's request for a "simple and bold" design.

One in every fourteen people in the US under the age of 50 is estimated to own, or to have owned, a copy.

Note - for the 50th-anniversary package the cover pays homage to the old cover and has set some people off who think they are woke for using a rainbow. Really...just shut up.

This was also the first time lyrics were printed on the sleeve. (Yes kids, it was a thing that happened back in the day)

There weren't 17 million charts back in 1973 and only two singles were released, "Money" was the first making #13. "Us and Them" backed by "Time" was the second single only bubbling under the Hot 100.