The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd


Cover

Vinyl L.P - Harvest Records - SHVL 804.
1973 - U.K.

Sleeve design, photography: HIPGNOSIS.
Sleeve and stickers art (graphics): George Hardie, N.T.A.


Back cover

Gatefold

Inner gatefold

Disc side 1

Disc side 2

Label side 1

Label side 2

Poster

Poster

Brown sticker

Yellow sticker

Cover sticker



Pink Floyd


David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Richard Wright



About the artwork:


The How And Why Wonder Book Of
Light And Color





Memorabilia:

Billboard Magazine - February 24, 1973.

Harvest Records

Billboard Magazine - March 3, 1973.



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  1. WIKIPEDIAJuly 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM


    The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973, by Capitol Records in the US and on 16 March 1973, by Harvest Records in the UK.

    Developed during live performances before recording began, it was conceived as a concept album that would focus on the pressures faced by the band during their arduous lifestyle, and also deal with the mental health problems of the former band member Syd Barrett, who had departed the group in 1968. New material was recorded in two sessions in 1972 and 1973 at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) in London.

    The album was originally released in a gatefold LP sleeve designed by Hipgnosis and George Hardie.

    Hipgnosis had designed several of the band's previous albums, with controversial results; EMI had reacted with confusion when faced with the cover designs for Atom Heart Mother and Obscured by Clouds, as they had expected to see traditional designs which included lettering and words.

    Designers Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell were able to ignore such criticism, as they were employed by the band. For The Dark Side of the Moon, Wright suggested something "smarter, neater – more classy", and simple, "like the artwork of a Black Magic chocolate box".

    The design was inspired by a photograph of a prism with a beam of white light projected through it and emerging in the colours of the visible spectrum that Thorgerson had found in a 1963 physics textbook, as well as by an illustration by Alex Steinweiss, the inventor of album cover art, for the New York Philharmonic's 1942 performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Emperor Concerto.

    The artwork was created by an associate of Hipgnosis, George Hardie.

    Hipgnosis offered a choice of seven designs for the sleeve, but all four members of the band agreed that the prism was the best. "There were no arguments," said Roger Waters. "We all pointed to the prism and said 'That's the one'."

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

    At Waters' suggestion, the spectrum of light continues through to the gatefold. 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, to make possible interesting layouts of the sleeve in record shops.

    The light band emanating from the prism on the album cover has six colours, missing indigo, compared with the usual division of the visible 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.

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