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Fact #84897

When:

Short story:

Pink Floyd begin working on the song Money, which will appear on the album Dark Side Of The Moon in EMI Studio 2, Abbey Road, London, England, UK.

Full article:

Nick Mason (drummer, Pink Floyd) : When Roger wrote it, it more or less all came up in the first day.

Roger Waters (bassist/songwriter, Pink Floyd) : Yeah, it was just a tune around those sevenths, and I knew that there had to be a song about money in the piece, and I thought that the tune could be a song about money and having decided that, it was extremely easy to make up a seven beat intro that went well with it. I often think that the best ideas are the most obvious ones, and that’s why it sounds good.