Pink Floyd on course for two Top 10 UK album chart entries

Pink Floyd are on course to land two Top 10 album chart entries this week as they celebrate the 50th anniversary of their musical opus ‘The Dark Side of the Moon.’

The remastered version of ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ is currently at Number 9 at the midpoint stage. To date, Pink Floyd’s eighth studio album has spent 546 weeks (almost 11 years) on the UK’s Official Album Chart.

The seminal 1973 album has also been released as an expansive deluxe box set, however it’s the vinyl pressing of ‘Dark Side of the Moon – Live at Wembley 1974’ that leads the charge this week at Number 4.

Pink Floyd are unlikely to reach the chart summit, however, as Lana Del Rey’s snappily titled ‘Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd’, Depeche Mode’s ‘Memento Mori’, and Fall Out Boy’s ‘So Much (for) Stardust’ are in first, second and third spot respectively.

Since its release half a century ago, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ has sold more than 45 million copies globally, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time.

Roger Waters revealed in February that he had re-recorded ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ in its entirety without his former band mates Nick Mason and David Gilmour. The album is tentatively due for release in May.

“I wrote The Dark Side of the Moon,” Roger told The Telegraph. “Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ crap. Of course we were a band – there were four of us, we all contributed – but it’s my project and I wrote it, so, blah.”

Speaking at a playback of 'The Dark Side of the Moon' in Dolby Atmos Immersive Audio at the Odeon Luxe in London on Thursday (23rd March), Nick Mason told Paul Gambaccini he has heard Roger Waters’ version of the album and it’s ‘brilliant.’

“I heard the rumour that Roger was working on his own version of it,” Nick said. “There was this suggestion that this was going to be a spoiler and Roger was going to go head-to-head with the original version and so on.

“He actually sent me a copy of what he was working on and I wrote to him and said, ‘Annoyingly, it’s absolutely brilliant!’ It was and is. It’s not anything that would be a spoiler for the original at all, it’s an interesting add-on to the thing."

Roger Waters’ ‘first farewell tour’ visits the UK in May and June for arena dates in Birmingham, Glasgow, London and Manchester.

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