Roger Waters The Dark Side of the Moon Redux 2LP

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To celebrate the 50th Anniversary year of 'The Dark Side of the Moon', Roger Waters announces the release of his homage to the original, 'The Dark Side of the Moon Redux'

Waters says 'when we recorded the stripped down songs for the Lockdown Sessions, the 50th anniversary of the release of The Dark Side of the Moon was looming on the horizon. It occurred to to me that The Dark Side of the Moon could well be a suitable candidate for a similar re-working, partly as a tribute to the original work, but also to re-address the political and emotional message of the whole album. I discussed it with Gus and Sean, and when we'd stopped giggling and shouting 'You must be ****ing mad' at one another we decided to take it on. It's turned out really great and I'm excited for everyone to hear it. It's not a replacement for the original which, obviously, is irreplaceable. But it is a way for the seventy nine year old man to look back across the intervening fifty years into the eyes of the twenty nine year old and say, to quote a poem of mine about my Father, "We did our best, we kept his trust, our Dad would have been proud of us". And also it is a way for me to honor a recording that Nick and Rick and Dave and I have every right to be very proud of.'

The fourth side of the vinyl includes an original composition, described by The Times as "a new 13-minute original ambient bonus track inspired by the re-recording."

As founding member, lyricist, and principal composer of Pink Floyd during the band's most influential and creative period, Roger Waters has achieved global success and global renown.

Waters co-founded Pink Floyd in the mid-1960s. Under Waters' guidance, Pink Floyd made a series of best-selling albums during the 1970s, of which the most successful and iconic were The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and the Wall. Roger Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and is now one of the most successful solo artists in the world.

Though not a necessary remake, Redux provides a compelling update to these seminal songs written by a 29-year-old Waters—now revised by the same 80-year-old man.