- Music
- 29 Mar 17
The recording console used for the seminal album sold for more than double the asking price.
The console, which was used in the Abbey Road Studios during the creation of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon has been sold at auction for $1.8m (€1.66m).
Installed at Abbey Road’s Studio between 1971 and 1983, the console was also used by Kate Bush, The Cure, and three former Beatles: Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
Rolling Stone reports that the recording console fetched more than double its expected price of $700,000 (€649,000).
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Dark Side Of The Moon was Pink Floyd’s eighth studio album. Released in March 1973, it came to define the genre of progressive-rock and is widely considered to be one of the greatest rock records of all time. The album was primarily recorded at the now iconic Abbey Road Studios in London.