Dark Side of the Moon Recording Equipment sells for $1.8 million

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).

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.