Nick Mason Says Roger Waters’ New Version of ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ Is ‘Brilliant’

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While fans are split on Roger Waters’ plan to re-record The Dark Side of the Moon, someone who’s not divided on the project – surprisingly – is one of the musicians who took part in recording the original.

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason says he’s heard a sample of Waters’ new version of the 1973 classic – and it isn’t bad.

“He actually sent me a copy of what he was working on,” Mason says. “And I wrote to him and said, ‘Annoyingly, it’s absolutely brilliant!’ It was and is. It’s not anything that would be a spoiler for the original at all; it’s an interesting add-on to the thing.”

Roger Waters knows that re-recording Dark Side Of The Moon was a polarizing idea – but he decided to do it anyway.

The former Pink Floyd frontman says the idea came to him after recording his ‘Lockdown Sessions’ album during the pandemic. He decided to rework Dark Side for its 50th anniversary, “Partly as a tribute to the original work, but also to readdress the political and emotional message of the whole album”.

He wrote “When we’d stopped giggling and shouting ‘You must be f***ing mad’ at one another, we decided to take it on.”

Waters’ version of The Dark Side of the Moon is due in October.

 

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