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Pink Floyd ‎ "The Dark Side Of The Moon"  Harvest ‎SHVL 804  Unplayed, Mint copy Vinyl, LP Fifth issue, issued in a gate-fold sleeve with two A2-sized posters and two stickers.
This album has never been played. It it still in its original cellophane wrapper which has only been opened to check the matrix/run off numbers. Posters have only been opened to take photos for this listing and it comes complete with stickers. The cellophane wrapper still has original promo sticker attached.
Matrix / Runout (Run-out side A, stamped, variant 2): SHVL 804 A-10 Matrix / Runout (Run-out side B, stamped, variant 2): SHVL 804 B-9
Labels have a non-solid blue triangle with EMI logo to the left and Harvest to the right.
"The Dark Side of the Moon" is Pink Floyd's eighth studio album, released on 1 March 1973. It built on ideas explored in the band's earlier recordings and live shows, but lacks the extended instrumental excursions that characterised their work following the departure in 1968 of founder member, principal composer, and lyricist, Syd Barrett. The themes on "The Dark Side of the Moon" include conflict, greed, the passage of time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by Barrett's deteriorating mental state.
The album's iconic sleeve, designed by Storm Thorgerson, depicts a prism dispersing light into colour and represents the band's stage lighting, the record's lyrical themes, and keyboardist Richard Wright's request for a "simple and bold" design.
"The Dark Side of the Moon" was an immediate success; it topped the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart for one week and remained in the charts for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988. With an estimated 50 million copies sold, it is Pink Floyd's most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling albums worldwide. It has twice been remastered and re-released, and has been covered in its entirety by several other acts. It produced two singles, "Money" and "Time". "The Dark Side of the Moon" is Pink Floyd's most popular album among fans and critics, and has been ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time.
"The Dark Side of the Moon" has appeared on rankings of the greatest albums of all-time. In 1987, Rolling Stone listed the record 35th on its "Top 100 Albums of the Last 20 Years", and sixteen years later, in 2003 the album polled in 43rd position on the magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2012, The Dark Side of the Moon was voted 43rd on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2006, it was voted "My Favourite Album" by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's audience. NME readers voted the album eighth in their 2006 "Best Album of All Time" online poll, and in 2009, Planet Rock listeners voted the album the "greatest of all time". The album is also number two on the "Definitive 200" list of albums, made by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers "in celebration of the art form of the record album". It came 29th in The Observer's 2006 list of "The 50 Albums That Changed Music",and 37th in The Guardian's 1997 list of the "100 Best Albums Ever", as voted for by a panel of artists and music critics. The album's cover has been lauded by critics and listeners alike, VH1 proclaiming it the fourth greatest in history, and Planet Rock listeners the greatest of all time. In 2013, The Dark Side of the Moon was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2014, readers of Rhythm voted it the seventh most influential progressive drumming album.