Fifty minutes about the making of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon can be found on Google Video: Part 1 and Part 2.

I had seen bits and pieces of this before, but not all of it in one place. It goes through the whole album track by track, talking to the people who made it, describing and showing how it was done. There was no mixing automation in 1973, so mixing an album was, as they say in the documentary, a performance in itself. Many people were needed to manually move every slider and change every effect at exactly the right time.

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This six-minute piece from a long-running BBC science show called Tomorrow's World tries to predict the future of special effects for rock concerts. Of course this is 1968, so pretty much everything to do with rock concerts had still to be invented. Pink Floyd went on to be the band to beat when it came to live shows.

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Originally broadcast by the BBC in 2002, this excellent two-part radio series about Pink Floyd features the band members, people who worked with them and knew them, and of course their music. It's about three hours in total, presented in Real Audio format in four parts (the last two are in the wrong order) so you'll either need the Real player, or VLC to listen to it.

Dave Gilmour hasn't done too badly out of the whole thing either, as a tour of his floating studio on the Thames shows in an episode of the BBC's Three Men In A Boat (Google Video, 5 mins). That link also has many other Pink Floyd clips.

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