(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 24 - One of the most iconic and influential albums ever, Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
In the UK it was released on 17 March 1973 and a new deluxe box set will be released on 24 March to celebrate the date.
Over the past fifty years the record has become one of the best-selling albums of all time, selling over 50 million copies and is widely regarded as one of the most influential in the history of music.
The album THe Dark Side Of The Moon was partly developed in 1972 during live performances and the band premiered an early version of the suite at London's Rainbow Theater several months before recording began.
It is the eighth studio album by Pink Floyd, originally released in the US on 1st March and then in the UK on 16th March 1973. The iconic cover, which depicts a spectroprismatic, was designed by Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis and George Hardie.
For the 50 years Pink Floyd from the band's official website announced the release of a new remastered version of the original version and the reissue will contain among other things a CD and a vinyl, as well as Blu-Ray and DVD audio with the original mix 5.1 versions remastered stereos.
Also arriving on March 24 is a book titled Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon: 50th Anniversary, edited by photographer Jill Furmanovsky and created in collaboration with the band, it will contain rare and unedited photos taken during the tour between 1972 and 1975.
Last year Pink Floyd released a special charity single called "Hey Hey Rise Up" to raise money for humanitarian charities helping people affected by the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war.
In December the band revealed they had raised £500,000 for the cause through the song.
Of that figure, £450,000 reportedly came from single sales and streaming revenue, with the remaining £50,000 coming from frontman David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason.
The money will be distributed among five humanitarian charities: Hospitallers, The Kharkiv And Przemyśl Project, Vostok SOS, Kyiv Volunteer and Livyj Bereh.
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