"a dispersive prism is seen on the cover of Pink Floyd's ""The Dark Side of the Moon"", one of the best-selling albums of all time. The iconic graphic shows a coherent ray of white light entering the prism and beginning to disperse, and shows the spectrum leaving the prism. Dispersive prism In optics, a dispersive prism is an optical prism, usually having the shape of a geometrical triangular prism, used as a spectroscopic component. Spectral dispersion is the best known property of optical prisms, although not the most frequent purpose of using optical prisms in practice. Triangular prisms are used"
"light band emanating from the prism on the album cover has six colours, missing indigo compared to the traditional division of the spectrum into red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Inside the sleeve were two posters and two pyramid-themed stickers. One poster bore pictures of the band in concert, overlaid with scattered letters to form PINK FLOYD, and the other an infrared photograph of the Great Pyramids of Giza, created by Powell and Thorgerson. The band were so confident of the quality of Waters' lyrics that, for the first time, they printed them on the album's sleeve. As"
"and Bryan Adams. It became Prism's first and only Top 40 hit in the US and went on to peak at number-one on the ""Billboard"" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in 1982. It stayed in the charts for just over four months. The follow-up single, ""Turn on Your Radar"", was their fifth and final single to chart, peaking at No. 64 on the ""Billboard Hot 100"". The album cover depicts Norman Rockwell's 1954 painting, ""Girl at Mirror"". Additionally, the single releases of the songs ""Don't Let Him Know"" and ""Turn on Your Radar"" used the same image of the painting. As"
"a prism spectrum, representing the band's lighting and the record's themes. ""The Dark Side of the Moon"" produced two singles: ""Money"" and ""Us and Them"". The album topped the ""Billboard"" chart for a week, and remained on the chart for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988. Following a change in how ""Billboard"" counts sales in 2009, it re-entered the chart and has since appeared for over 900 weeks. With estimated sales of over 45 million, it is Pink Floyd's bestselling album and one of the bestselling worldwide. It has been remastered and rereleased several times, and covered in its entirety"
"Battersea Power Station in popular culture Battersea Power Station has been featured in many forms of media and culture: it can be seen on several album covers by rock and pop groups, in a number of music videos, and has appeared in many films and television programmes in its more than 70-year history. Author of a book on Battersea Power Station Peter Watts thinks one of the main reasons for the building's worldwide recognition is due to it having appeared on the cover of Pink Floyd's 1977 album, ""Animals"". Developed by long-time Floyd collaborators design studio Hipgnosis, the album sleeve"
"by far the best. The final 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. The spectrum of light continues through to the gatefold – an idea that Waters came up with. Added shortly afterwards, the gatefold design also includes a visual representation of the heartbeat sound used throughout the album, and the back of the album cover contains Thorgerson's suggestion of another prism recombining the spectrum of light, facilitating interesting layouts of the sleeve in record shops. The"
"a riddle supposedly concealed in the new album. White lights in front of the stage at the Pink Floyd concert in East Rutherford spelled out the words Enigma Publius. During a televised concert at Earls Court on 20 October 1994, someone projected the word ""enigma"" in large letters on to the backdrop of the stage. Mason later acknowledged that their record company had instigated the Publius Enigma mystery, rather than the band. Marked by Waters' philosophical lyrics, ""Rolling Stone"" described Pink Floyd as ""purveyors of a distinctively dark vision"". Author Jere O'Neill Surber wrote: ""their interests are truth and illusion,"
"You"" for a Pink Floyd tribute album and a demo of the song which would become the title track of the band's next album, ""Beneath the Veil of Winter's Face"" for a progressive rock compilation album. Mystery also released the compilation album ""At the Dawn of a New Millennium"", marking a transition period in the band. Over the next few years progress was made on the band's next studio album, with a rough mix of the song ""As I Am"" appearing on the 2004 compilation album ""Prog-résiste"". Then in 2006, Mystery released a cover of ""Visions of Paradise"" on a"
"god Pan, who plays his pan pipe at dawn. It was one of Barrett's favourite books, and he often gave friends the impression that he was the embodiment of Pan. The moniker was later used in the song ""Shine On You Crazy Diamond"", in which Barrett is called ""you Piper"". The cover for the album was one of several Pink Floyd album covers used on a series of Royal Mail stamps issued in May 2016 to commemorate 50 years of Pink Floyd. In 2018, the album was reissued in its mono mix. With this version came with a new packaging"
"the UK, Japan, North America and Europe. Producer Chris Thomas assisted Parsons. Hipgnosis designed the album's packaging, which included George Hardie's iconic refracting prism design on the cover. Thorgerson's ""Dark Side"" album cover features a 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. Waters is the sole author of the album's lyrics. Released in March 1973, the LP became an instant chart success in the UK and throughout Western Europe, earning an enthusiastic response from critics. Each member of Pink"
"Light"". The organ played through a wah-wah pedal (1:20) plays a progression of background notes over the drum-bass line, while the untreated organ plays the main melodic notes (2:10). The slide guitar plays from the middle of the piece onward. The CD writing credit omits Mason. The song has been covered in 1977 by French group Rosebud with an electro-funky style. It is available on their ""Discoballs"" album among other Pink Floyd covers. Main Theme ""Main Theme"" is an instrumental track by English band Pink Floyd on their third album, ""Soundtrack from the Film More"". The track is played at"
"to his own cover for 1969's ""Ummagumma"", and the objects on each landscape refer to the Pink Floyd discography. For instance, there's the man on fire from ""Wish You Were Here"", another wearing the ""Delicate Sound of Thunder"" lightbulb suit, dolls of the ""Atom Heart Mother"" cow and the ""Animals"" pig, a bike and both a brick wall and the hammers from ""The Wall"". Eventually Thorgerson opted to make two images, with another used for the back cover. To create the idea on a photograph, various walls - which had varied measurements and angles to ensure that ""nothing seemed to"
"distant, dealing with his own marital problems. In a June 1987 interview, Waters recalled: Storm Thorgerson, a founder member of Hipgnosis (designers of most of Pink Floyd's previous artwork), was passed over for the cover design. Instead, Waters created the cover himself, using photographs taken by his brother-in-law, Willie Christie. The front cover shows a Remembrance poppy and four Second World War medal ribbons against the black fabric of the jacket or blazer on which they are worn. From left to right, the medals are the 1939–45 Star, the Africa Star, the Defence Medal, and the Distinguished Flying Cross. The"
"out of a desire to be ""the same but different, such that the design was clearly DSotM, still the recognisable prism design, but was different and hence new"". ""The Dark Side of the Moon"" was also re-released in 2003 on 180-gram virgin vinyl (mastered by Kevin Gray at AcousTech Mastering) and included slightly different versions of the original posters and stickers that came with the original vinyl release, along with a new 30th anniversary poster. In 2007 the album was included in ""Oh, by the Way"", a box set celebrating the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd, and a DRM-free version"
"track to Pink Floyd on the inside cover. None of the artists who were featured on the album are portrayed on the outer cover. The front and rear of the gatefold show a group of people wearing World War II gas masks sitting in sand dunes with a dead bird on the sand. The interior of the sleeve displays the covers of most of the albums from which the tracks are taken against the background of an incoming sea tide. This background features a family walking across the sands in a washed-out monochrome. The cover design and photographs are credited"
"Shine On (Pink Floyd box set) Shine On is a 1992 nine-CD box set by Pink Floyd which was released through EMI Records in the United Kingdom and Columbia Records in the United States to coincide with Pink Floyd's 25th anniversary as a recording and touring band. All CDs were digitally remastered. The eight albums included in this box set are: Refer to original albums for track lists, personnel lists, and production credits. The packaging on each of the previously released albums was unique to this set. The spines of the eight black CD cases lined up to show the"
"2002, and Quadruple Platinum on 10 September 2007. The compilation spans the career of Pink Floyd from their first single ""Arnold Layne"" in 1967, through to ""High Hopes"", the final track from their 1994 studio album ""The Division Bell"". Four of their albums—""More"", ""Ummagumma"", ""Atom Heart Mother"" and ""Obscured by Clouds""—are not represented whatsoever, though multiple tracks from ""Atom Heart Mother"" and ""Ummagumma"" were planned to appear on the compilation. Each of the 26 tracks fades from one to the next with no break in the music, courtesy of longtime producer/engineer James Guthrie, to help recreate the concept album feel"
"Pink Floyd."" As of 2010, they have sold 75,000 albums. In 2010 they signed to the Season of Mist records label to release the album ""Spiral Shadow"" on October 26 that year. A rarities compilation album titled ""From the Vaults, Vol. 1"" was released later that year. Their sixth album, ""Ultraviolet"", was released through Season of Mist in May 2013. The record is said to be darker lyrically and sonically than previous works, containing more vocals from singer/guitarist Laura Pleasants. The band embarked on a full North America headlining tour to promote the release with direct support from Blood Ceremony,"
"Let There Be More Light ""Let There Be More Light"" is the opening track on Pink Floyd's second album ""A Saucerful of Secrets"". It was also released in edited form as the fourth American single by the group. The song is written by Roger Waters. It begins with an iterative bass line before the vocals start. The first, gentler vocals are performed by Rick Wright with Waters whispering, and the following, harder refrain is sung by David Gilmour. The last two minutes of the song mark the first appearance of a guitar solo by Gilmour on a Pink Floyd album."
"a sample of scientist Stephen Hawking's speech taken from a British Telecom commercial; the same commercial had been sampled for ""The Division Bell"" on ""Keep Talking"". ""The Endless River ""is the first Pink Floyd studio album since ""The Dark Side of the Moon"" (1973) for which Mason received writing credits, for ""Sum"", and ""Skins"", a two-and-a-half-minute drum solo. Gilmour said that he was ""pretty certain"" that ""The Endless River"" would be the final Pink Floyd album. ""The Endless River"" comprises four pieces that form a continuous flow of mostly ambient and instrumental music. Gilmour told ""Mojo"": ""Unapologetically, this is for"
"was generally complimentary. The 30th-anniversary edition won four Surround Music Awards in 2003, and has since sold more than 800,000 copies. The cover image was created by a team of designers including Storm Thorgerson. The image is a photograph of a custom-made stained glass window, built to match the exact dimensions and proportions of the original prism design. Transparent glass, held in place by strips of lead, was used in place of the opaque colours of the original. The idea is derived from the ""sense of purity in the sound quality, being 5.1 surround sound ..."" The image was created"
"Vic Singh then shot them with a prism lens that Harrison had given him. The cover was meant to resemble an LSD trip, a style that was favoured at the time. In 2017, the lens was displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, as part of the """" exhibition. Barrett came up with the album title ""The Piper at the Gates of Dawn""; the album was originally titled ""Projection"" up to as late as July 1967. The title was taken from that of chapter seven of Kenneth Grahame's ""The Wind in the Willows"" which contains a visionary encounter with the"
"call while on tour in Japan that they would rather have ""an ear underwater"". The cover image was photographed by Bob Dowling. The image represents an ear, underwater, collecting waves of sound (represented by ripples in the water). Thorgerson later expressed dissatisfaction with the cover, claiming it to be his least favourite Pink Floyd album sleeve: ""I think ""Meddle"" is a much better album than its cover"". Thorgerson's colleague Aubrey Powell shared his sentiments, saying: """"Meddle"" was a mess. I hated that cover. I don't think we did them justice with that at all; it's half-hearted."" The gatefold contains a"
"Signs of Life (instrumental) ""Signs of Life"" is the opening track on ""A Momentary Lapse of Reason"", the first Pink Floyd album headed by David Gilmour, in the absence of ex-member Roger Waters. It is an instrumental piece, although in the version featured on ""A Momentary Lapse of Reason"", the electronically processed voice of drummer Nick Mason can be heard for a few seconds reciting two verses of an unknown poem. The screen film used to accompany the song during concert performances featured Langley Iddins, caretaker of David Gilmour's ""Astoria"" houseboat-studio, rowing through ""Grantchester Meadows"". The piece is Pink Floyd's"
"""Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"" the screen displayed the word ""Enigma"" instead of ""E=MC"" which is what was shown at other shows, this is shown on the original 1995 release. The DVD, however, has an altered back-drop displaying ""E=MC"", although if the DVD is paused at the correct moment the word ""Enigma"" is still visible. Pulse (1995 film) Pulse (stylised as P•U•L•S•E) is a Pink Floyd concert video taken from the 20 October 1994 concert at Earls Court, London, England in ""The Division Bell Tour"". It was originally released on VHS and Laserdisc in 1995. There was considerable"
"here. The US version of this album was also released in Canada. The cover is by the Hipgnosis group, who did many other Pink Floyd covers, and consists of four grids of nine small pictures of proposed but previously unused album cover designs. Several images depict a well-known phrase or saying in the form of a visual pun; for instance, the centre right-hand panel on the front depicts ""a fork in the road"", while the bottom right represents ""a fine kettle of fish"". Another picture presents two puns on the album title: a nice pear, and an image of a"
"image has been digitally altered using the Droste effect in recursion to make it appear as if the image continues into itself, creating a distinctly psychedelic feeling reminiscent of Pink Floyd's album cover for ""Ummagumma"". Parker revealed his intentions for the album artwork: ""I had an idea for the album cover but didn't have the graphic design skills or the resources to carry it out. It was to be a shot of some scenery where the features of the landscape repeat infinitely into the horizon. Leif Podhajsky is an artist we found who has an amazing eye for weird cosmic"
"stated to be over six months. Some versions were also made with 2 AA batteries and later editions of the CD set did not feature the blinking LED. Pulse (Pink Floyd album) Pulse (stylised as p·u·l·s·e) is a live album by the English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released on 29 May 1995 by EMI in the United Kingdom and on 6 June 1995 by Columbia in the United States. The album was recorded during the European leg of Pink Floyd's Division Bell Tour in 1994. The album includes a complete live version of ""The Dark Side of the"
"and touring under the name Pink Floyd. Following an out-of-court settlement, the band enjoyed worldwide success with ""A Momentary Lapse of Reason"" (1987), ""The Division Bell"" (1994) and ""The Endless River"" (2014). Pink Floyd discography The discography of Pink Floyd, a British rock band, consists of fifteen studio albums, three live albums, nine compilation albums, four box sets, five extended plays, and twenty-seven singles. Formed in 1965, Pink Floyd initially earned recognition for their psychedelic or space rock music, and, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. They are known for philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative cover art, and"
"A Momentary Lapse of Reason A Momentary Lapse of Reason is the thirteenth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It was released in the UK and US on 7 September 1987 by EMI and Columbia. It was the first Pink Floyd album since the departure of bass guitarist, singer, and songwriter Roger Waters in 1985. Unlike many Pink Floyd albums, ""A Momentary Lapse of Reason"" is not a concept album and is instead a collection of songs written by guitarist David Gilmour, sometimes with outside songwriters. It followed Gilmour's decision to include material recorded for his"
"""Oh by the way, which one's Pink?"" The box cover consists of a concept similar to that of ""Ummagumma""—one side of the box shows a picture of a room with various objects scattered about inside it, with pictures of Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright on the walls, whilst the other side shows the same room in different lighting, with the objects and pictures of band members rearranged. Standing in the background of both sides of the cover is the dark silhouette of an individual, to symbolize Syd Barrett. Albums, packaging format, and original release date. Refer"
"40 million copies worldwide. It was continuing to sell over 8,000 units every week as of 2005. According to Pink Floyd biographer Glen Povey, ""Dark Side of the Moon"" is the world's second bestselling album and the United States' 21st-bestselling album. Waters produced thematic ideas that became the impetus for the Pink Floyd concept albums ""The Dark Side of the Moon"" (1973), ""Wish You Were Here"" (1975), ""Animals"" (1977) and ""The Wall"" (1979)—written largely by Waters—and ""The Final Cut"" (1983)—written entirely by Waters. He referred or alluded to the cost of war and the loss of his father throughout his"
"Dark Side of the Rainbow Dark Side of the Rainbow – also known as Dark Side of Oz or The Wizard of Floyd – refers to the pairing of the 1973 Pink Floyd album ""The Dark Side of the Moon"" with the visual portion of the 1939 film ""The Wizard of Oz."" In August 1995, the ""Fort Wayne (Indiana) Journal Gazette"" published the first mainstream media article about the ""synchronicity"", citing the Usenet discussion group alt.music.pink-floyd. Soon afterward, several fans began creating websites in which they touted the experience and tried to comprehensively catalogue the corresponding moments. A second wave"