1- “Dark Side of the Moon” is the longest album of all time is remaining at the summit.
in July 1988, 736 weeks after it debuted on Billboard’s album chart, Pink Floyd‘s 1973 classic ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ finally left the weekly Top 200 listing. Twenty-five years after that chart record was set, it still hasn’t been broken.
On March 17, 1973, Pink Floyd’s eighth album debuted at No. 95 on the Billboard’s Top 200 album chart. It eventually made it all the way to No. 1, where it stayed for one week. Before that, the band’s highest-charting LP was the previous year’s ‘Obscured by Clouds,’ which peaked at No. 46. The group was going through some changes at the time, and ‘The Dark Side of the Moon‘ proudly reflected them.
2- The Group’s ‘Another Brick In The Wall’ album has sold more than 4 million worldwide.
In the UK, it was Pink Floyd’s first single since 1968’s “Point Me at the Sky”; the song was also the final number-one single of the 1970s. For Part II, Pink Floyd received a Grammy nomination for Best Performance by a Rock Duo or Group and lost to Bob Seger’s “Against the Wind”. In addition, Part II was number 375 on Rolling Stone ’s list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.[3]The single sold over 4 million copies worldwide
3- Before the name Pink Floyd, the group’s name was The “Pink Floyd Sound”.
The group first referred to themselves as the Pink Floyd Sound in late 1965. Barrett created the name on the spur of the moment when he discovered that another band, also called the Tea Set, were to perform at one of their gigs. The name is derived from the given names of two blues musicians whose Piedmont blues records Barrett had in his collection, Pink Anderson
4- Group’s name came from American blues artists “Pink Anderson” and “Floyd Council”
Syd Barrett, of English psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, came up with the band’s name by juxtaposing the first names of Council and South Carolina bluesman Pink Anderson. He noticed the names in the liner notes of a 1962 Blind Boy Fuller LP (Philips BBL-7512). The text, written by Paul Oliver, read:“Curley Weaver and Fred McMullen, (…) Pink Anderson or Floyd Council – these were a few amongst the many blues singers that were to be heard in the rolling hills of thePiedmont, or meandering with the streams through the wooded valleys.”
5- If you listen to the end of the “Wish You Were Here” song high enough ,
Maybe you can hear the jazz virtuoso Stephane Grappelli’s violin solo.
He was working in the next room at the Abbey Road studio at that time.
Pink Floyd – Marooned
6 – The name of the album “Atom Heart Mother” came from a newspaper heading about a woman who was receiving the first (atomic) pacemaker
Pink Floyd’s symphonic fourth album remained untitled until the band was debuting some of the material on the BBC’s Radio One–and the announcer needed to call it something. Album producer Bob Geesin told bassist Roger Waters to search through a copy of the Evening Standard, a London newspaper that was lying around the studio. Waters spotted an article about a pregnant woman with an atomic-powered pacemaker, and borrowed its “Atom Heart Mother” headline.
7- Pink Floyd album in 2010, were published as postage stamps by Royal Mail Postage.
8- “Delicate Sound of Thunder” (1988) album was the first album being played in space in those years.
9 – Stanley Kubrick wantted to use ‘Atom Heart Mother Suite’ as soundtrack album of ‘A Clockwork Orange’ ,
But refused.
10 – There is a story between Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” and its connection to “The Wizard of Oz.”
“It’s as if the movie were one long art-film music video for the album. Song lyrics and titles match the action and plot. The music swells and falls with character’s movements…expect to see enough firm coincidences to make you wonder whether the whole thing was planned”
That is some very cool facts.
I would like to hear more