David Gilmour was a visitor on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday evening (November seventh), the place the legendary Pink Floyd singer-guitarist was requested by the late-night host in regards to the long-running idea involving the album The Darkish Facet of the Moon and the film The Wizard of Oz.
Due to the “Darkish Facet of the Rainbow” idea first broadly publicized in a 1995 article by Charles Savage within the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, it’s believed that if you happen to begin Darkish Facet of the Moon on the precise second the MGM lion roars in the beginning 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 individuals to assume 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 type 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 Had been Right here” led him to stop smoking. He additionally mentioned his early days as a male mannequin.
David Gilmour finally ends 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). Decide up tickets right here.
The total 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.