Welcome to the `Dark Side' of Floyd classic.(Arts and Lifestyle)

From: The Boston Herald | Date: September 7, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

Thirty-three years after its release, fans old and new still love Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon."

Pink Floyd mastermind Roger Waters performs the epic at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield tomorrow and Saturday. His solo tour coincides with the paperback release of a book devoted to its creation, John Harris' "The Dark Side of the Moon: The Making of the Pink Floyd Masterpiece."

It's not just aging hippies who still groove to "Dark Side." Getting into the album has become a teenage rite of passage: an entrance into rock 'n' roll ...

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