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Pink Floyd Records Dark Side at Abbey Road

Pink Floyd · 1973

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“Two years of sessions. A 16-track tape machine. Alan Parsons engineering. The Beatles had just left.”

May 1972 to January 1973, Studio Two, Abbey Road. The Beatles' rooms, the Beatles' engineer pipeline, post-Beatles. Floyd uses the entire studio as an instrument — heartbeats, cash registers, footsteps, looped tapes. The album spends 14 years on the Billboard 200. Concept album as art form starts here.

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Pink Floyd Records Dark Side at Abbey Road · Pink Floyd

75 — Strong