• A. Led Zeppelin
  • B. Pink Floyd
  • C. The Who
  • D. Deep Purple

💡 Need a hint?

This band is known for concept albums and impressive light shows. The famous cover features a prism splitting white light into the colours of the rainbow.

✅ View the answer

The correct answer is B. Pink Floyd released “The Dark Side of the Moon” in 1973. The album is among the best-selling albums of all time and remained in the American album charts for years without interruption.

📚 More background information

“The Dark Side of the Moon” is a concept album that explores themes such as time, money, stress, and the human experience. The tracks flow seamlessly into one another, making the album feel like one continuous whole rather than a collection of individual songs.

Did you know that the cover design — that light-refracting prism on a black background — remains to this day one of the most instantly recognisable album covers in the world? “Money”, “Time” and “Us and Them” are still played regularly on radio stations, more than fifty years after the album’s release.

What truly set the album apart at the time was its use of sound effects such as ringing cash registers and ticking clocks. For that era, this was genuinely groundbreaking in popular music. Those choices may seem obvious now, but they absolutely were not. And they still work.