David Gilmour was a visitor on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night time (November seventh), the place the legendary Pink Floyd singer-guitarist was requested by the late-night host concerning the long-running concept involving the album The Darkish Facet of the Moon and the film The Wizard of Oz.
Due to the “Darkish Facet of the Rainbow” concept first extensively publicized in a 1995 article by Charles Savage within the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, it’s believed that in the event you begin Darkish Facet of the Moon on the actual second the MGM lion roars originally of The Wizard of Oz, the music syncs almost completely with the scenes within the basic movie.
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That has led some folks to suppose that Pink Floyd deliberately recorded the 1973 album to sync with the 1939 film, a query Fallon requested Gilmour throughout his look on The Tonight Present.
“Nicely, in fact it was,” quipped Gilmour at first, earlier than revealing that he and his spouse, Polly Samson, have tried it out. “We listened to it, Polly and I, years in the past,” continued the rock icon, earlier than Fallon requested once more if the band purposely deliberate it, to which Gilmour responded, “No. I solely heard about that years later.”
Gilmour then added, “Somebody mentioned you set the needle on … and on the third roar of the MGM lion, you set the needle on for the start of Darkish Facet and there’s these unusual synchronicities that occur.”
The Rock & Roll Corridor of Famer went on to confess, “There are these unusual coincidences.”
Fallon then joked that possibly if followers play Gilmour’s new solo album, Luck and Unusual, whereas they watch the brand new film Depraved, the identical form of synchronicities would occur, to which Gilmour exclaimed, “Who is aware of?”
Elsewhere within the interview, Gilmour addressed whether or not his well-known cough within the tune “Want You Have been Right here” led him to give up smoking. He additionally mentioned his early days as a male mannequin.
David Gilmour winds up a five-night stand at New York Metropolis’s Madison Sq. Backyard with two extra exhibits on Saturday (November ninth) and Sunday (November tenth). Choose up tickets right here.
The complete interview with Fallon will be seen under, whereas his efficiency of his solo single “Darkish and Velvet Nights” on The Tonight Present will be seen right here.