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Pink Floyd recorded The Dark Side of the Moon between May 1972 and January 1973, with EMI staff engineer Alan Parsons at Abbey Road.

The title is an allusion to lunacy rather than astronomy. Hipgnosis designed the album’s packaging, which included designer Storm Thorgerson’s beam of white light, representing unity, passing through a prism, which represents society. The resulting refracted beam of coloured light symbolises unity diffracted, leaving an absence of unity.

The album is one of the most commercially successful rock albums of all time; a US number 1, it remained on the Billboard chart for more than fourteen years, selling more than 50 million copies worldwide.

In 2012, The Dark Side of the Moon was voted 43rd on Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Audiophile. Limited Edition. Out of Print. 1979. Mobile Fidelity MFSL 1-017. NM*****