The Dark Side 50th anniversary box set is an art piece as well as a musical treasure trove. The prior “immersion edition” box set was released in 2011 (and admittedly featured much more unreleased material than the new set offers), but that does not mean the 50th set isn’t worth investigating. To celebrate this milestone, the surviving members of the band and Sony Music have teamed up to release another box set honoring the album. On March 24, 2023, it turned 50 years old. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) in terms of historical significance, and it has clocked more weeks on the album charts than any other album in history. It’s been considered a classic rock staple since the early 1980s, ranked up there with Sgt.
There followed numerous global number 1 albums, including, ‘The Wall’, ‘Animals’, ‘Wish You Were Here’, ‘The Final Cut’ and 2014’s finale, ‘The Endless River’.Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) should not require an introduction or explanation. Despite the departure of Syd Barrett, the group, which now included David Gilmour, recorded some of the most innovative and ground breaking records of the time, culminating in 1973 with one of the biggest selling albums of all time, ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’. Pink Floyd featuring Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Rick Wright and Nick Mason first broke onto the music scene in 1967, with the hit single ‘Arnold Layne’. The first batch of releases, mastered by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman will be pressed on 180gram vinyl for optimum sound quality. Special care has been taken to replicate the original packaging. On September 23rd 2016 this long awaited reissue campaign continued with the vinyl release of the classic albums Atom Heart Mother, Meddle and Obscured By Clouds. On 3 June 2016, Pink Floyd Records began the reintroduction of the Pink Floyd catalogue on vinyl for the first time in over two decades with the release of ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’, ‘A Saucerful of Secrets’, the soundtrack from the film ‘More’ and the 2 LP set ‘Ummagumma’.
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