Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon", found its way into the Billboard top 200 chart for albums in 1973...it started a long session for the album on the charts...right until July 1988 ! It dropped off the charts for a couple of weeks, and then astonishingly, it returned...and what's better ? It has stayed on ever since ! It reached the staggerging record of 1500 weeks in May 2006 !Apparently Bob Marley and Wailers' "Legend" is several years behind and the Floyd's lead is almost 2-1 !
Dark Side of the Moon has apparently sold over 40 million copies worldwide, and continues to sell more ! On a slow week, about 8000-9000 copies are sold !
[But of course, this would also be the right place to pay tribute to the great Syd Barrett ! Visionary, eccentric, legendary, genius, madman all combined into one...perhaps many more adjectives could be used and we'd never run out of them to describe him...rest in peace, your vision still lives on !]
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