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Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side Of The Moon' Goes Surround Sound For 30th Anniversary
01/21/2003 10:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Bruce Simon
(1/21/03, 10 a.m. ET) -- A new edition of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon is coming out in March to celebrate the album's 30th anniversary. The updated version has been remixed in 5.1 Surround Sound and will be available in the dual-layer hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format. The disc, due March 4 from EMI/Capitol, will also include a newly remastered stereo mix, but it's not expected to have any bonus tracks.
Dual-layer hybrid SACDs are both forward and backward compatible. That is, they can be played on either an SACD player--allowing delivery of the format's high-resolution audio--or on a standard CD player.
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason says he and his bandmates have never been able to fully grasp why Dark Side Of The Moon has been so successful. "I don't think we ever really understood. There are elements that you would never have perceived at the time," Mason said. "It was partly about timing, and partly about the songs being relevant to people at the time, and that sort of gave it the lift that then brought it to the attention of another bunch of people, and so on."
Dark Side Of The Moon was released March 24, 1973. It has sold well more than 15 million copies in the U.S., and it holds the record for longest consecutive streak on the Billboard 200 chart at 741 weeks (14.25 years).
-- Bruce Simon, New York, Gary Graff, Detroit
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