CyberSphere celebrates 30th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon

Release Date: 9/3/2003. Expired: 10/11/2003

With more than 35 million copies sold, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon is recognized as one of rock music’s greatest albums of all time, being officially listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for being on the charts longer than any other album in history.

The CyberSphere Digital Theater at The Renaissance Center in Dickson will celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon with a special Pink Floyd laser show double feature on Saturdays, Sept. 6-Oct. 11. The CyberSphere will show The Dark Side of the Moon at 8 p.m. and Pink Floyd’s The Wall at 9 p.m. Tickets are $6 for each show or $11 for both shows on the same night.

“Both of the Pink Floyd shows have proven to be among the most popular laser shows we have presented in the four years the CyberSphere has been open,” said Ron Stinson, director of the CyberSphere. “Just like sales of The Dark Side of the Moon over the last 30 years, I don’t think interest in Pink Floyd laser shows will decline any time soon.”

Released March 24, 1973, on EMI’s Harvest Records, The Dark Side of the Moon stayed on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart for 591 consecutive weeks, more than 11 years. Altogether it has been on the chart for more than 14 years and remained on one Billboard chart or another for more than 26 years.

The Dark Side of the Moon even appeared on SoundScan’s Top 200 albums of 2002 with more than 417,000 copies sold, by far the oldest album on the chart.

The 20th anniversary re-release of the album in 1993 soared to number four on charts in the United Kingdom.

A 30th anniversary re-mastered version of The Dark Side of the Moon in 5.1 Surround Sound was released in March of this year.

Recorded at Abbey Road studios over several months, The Dark Side of the Moon was a brooding, heavily electronic concept album mostly written by band member Roger Waters and engineered by Alan Parsons. Songs such as Money, Time and Us and Them received considerable airplay as singles, however the four-member band continued to perform the entire album as one piece in live shows.

Pink Floyd released The Wall in late 1979 and it climbed quickly to number one on the U.S. charts but topped out at number three in the U.K. Singles include Another Brick in the Wall, Hey You and Comfortably Numb.

Pink Floyd continues to be a mainstay of electronic rock music, even winning a Grammy in 1994 for Best Rock Instrumental.

For more information on the Pink Floyd laser double feature in the CyberSphere, call (615)740-5600. The CyberSphere is a four-story domed theater equipped with state-of-the-art laser and starfield projectors, more than a dozen slide and video projectors and a sound system of 14,000 watts of digital Surround Sound. It is located at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.

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