A few years in the past, somebody found that Pink Floyd’s The Darkish Facet of the Moon and the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz will sync up in eerie methods when collectively began at simply the proper second.
This concept got here to be often known as “The Darkish Facet of the Rainbow.” Within the years since, nonetheless, members of Pink Floyd and their manufacturing crew have described all of it as a coincidence. David Gilmour reiterated that on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon.
“I solely heard about it years later,” he mentioned throughout Thursday’s episode. “Somebody mentioned you place the needle on … and on the third roar of the MGM lion, you place the needle on for the start of Darkish Facet and there is these unusual synchronicities that occur.”
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Gilmour even admitted that he is tried it out for himself. “There are these unusual coincidences,” he informed Fallon. “I am going to name them coincidences.”
Roger Waters’ Tackle ‘Darkish Facet of the Rainbow’
In 2022, Roger Waters shared an identical perspective when requested in regards to the two items – however in a usually way more confrontational method: “Bullshit,” Waters mentioned throughout an look on The Joe Rogan Expertise.
“I imply, it will not be – it might [work] if you happen to do what they are saying,” Waters added. “However it has nothing to do with us – any of us. Nothing to do with anybody in Pink Floyd or anybody who wrote or recorded any of the music. It is one thing that someone thinks – it is a coincidence. … Possibly it is cosmic coincidence!”
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