With over 50 million copies sold worldwide, The Dark Side Of The Moon was one of the first albums to join the select club of Records More Famous That The People Who Made Them: and like The Who's Tommy and Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, it's a record that both crystallised the group's image for ever but was also not entirely representative of their past.
Before The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd (who also once sported a now-forgotten "The") had been pop, psychedelic, and experimental: after it, they were a hugely popular yet strangely faceless stadium mega band and everything they did, from Wish You Were Here to The Wall, was measured against it.
