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Back on October 29, 1983, a record that had been on the charts for more than ten years did something no other album had ever done. Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon reached its 491st week on the Billboard album chart, passing the record previously held by Johnny Mathis. The album had been released in March of 1973, and tucked among its ten tracks was a song called “Time.” Roger Waters came up with the idea when he was 29 years old, after realizing he'd spent much of his life waiting for something to happen. He thought there would come a point when everything would finally begin, until it dawned on him that life had been happening all along. When the band went into the studio to record the song, engineer Alan Parsons already had something that would give it a rather unusual beginning. He'd recorded a collection of clocks and alarms for a demonstration of quadraphonic sound, using a different clock for each recording. The band put those sounds together, and the result was that incredible opening where all the clocks suddenly start ringing before the music begins. The Dark Side of the Moon would eventually spend more than 900 weeks on the Billboard 200, but tonight we're going back to one of the songs that helped make that album such a lasting part of rock history. 🎶 Here's Pink Floyd with “Time.” Turn it up and enjoy your evening. 🎶