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Opinion: Remembering the Dark Side

By Jay Bookman
March 2, 2018

Somebody on Twitter today recommended a new piece at Rolling Stone titled "Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon': 10 Things You  Didn't Know." I have a special fondness for that album -- my first rock concert was the Dark Side tour in 1973, in Munich, so naturally I got sucked into reading it.

Unlike most such Internet come-ons, this one kept its promise. They actually were 10 things I did not know, many of them pretty interesting. Which of course leads me to this, which somehow captures the experience of that concert pretty well:

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