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Wizard of Oz Meeting Pink Floyd Is My Thing
An improbable coincidence that makes me dream and get high just by watching and listening to “The Dark Side of The Rainbow.”
The Dark Side of the Moon is Pink Floyd’s 8th album, released in 1973, thirty-four years after the debut of The Wizard of Oz.
If you have no idea why I’m mentioning this together, then prepare to be taken on a hallucinatory journey.
Both make anyone fascinated, either by the music and lyrics of an album whose name is to be immediately amazed or by the story of a film that also made history by introducing natural color in cinema for the first time.
I can hardly imagine the audience’s reaction when Dorothy passes from that sepia world into the colorful world of the Wizard of Oz. The door that opened to another world marked not only a revolution in the plot but also in the history of cinema itself.
Pink Floyd’s ten-track album was the last album where every original band member contributed. Of course, the most important are the songs, with themes that, for me, are brilliant. In particular, my favorite, Time, is one of the most memorable of my life, and I always wonder how someone as relatively young as they were at the time already had such a clear perception of life.
