“The Dark Side of the Moon”: 50 years later, Pink Floyd still lands the moon

Why so much hate? The concept (opera), the genre (progressive), the design (iconic Hipgnosis), the success (monstrous)? Pink Floyd’s masterpiece crystallizes everything that a certain idea of ​​rock jeers at, like the “I hate Pink Floyd” t-shirt worn by Johnny Rotten in the mid-1970s.

Flirting with 50 million copies sold, behind the untouchable “Thriller” (66 million), the album rivals AC/DC’s “Back in Black” and is ahead of the soundtrack of “Saturday Night Fever” in the record book. After the psychedelic avant-garde, light shows of the UFO Club and the London underground, the exclusion of its founder Syd Barrett in 1968 p