Music
Pink Floyd win life-changing song vote
Published Saturday, Jun 10 2006, 09:25 BST | By Daniel Kilkelly
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon has been voted as the public's number one life-changing track.
BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine invited his listeners to choose the best songs with the power to change lives, as part of the station's new interactive Music Club.
"Dark Side of the Moon won hands down. People just love it. For its mammoth sense of scale and all the invention, it's still wonderful," Jeremy explained.
Pink Floyd vocalist and guitarist David Gilmour added, "It's fantastic. What can I say except be thrilled. It's a good combination of great music and great lyrics. It's music for people who have a brain as well as a soul, I think.
"The theme that Roger tackles so well with his words are universal and they are just as relevant today as they were 33 years ago when it first came out."
The track, which received 23% of the total votes, was joined in the final by The Beach Boys' God Only Knows (16%) and Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah (17%).
Other songs in the running included REM's Everybody Hurts and John Lennon's Imagine.
BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine invited his listeners to choose the best songs with the power to change lives, as part of the station's new interactive Music Club.
"Dark Side of the Moon won hands down. People just love it. For its mammoth sense of scale and all the invention, it's still wonderful," Jeremy explained.
Pink Floyd vocalist and guitarist David Gilmour added, "It's fantastic. What can I say except be thrilled. It's a good combination of great music and great lyrics. It's music for people who have a brain as well as a soul, I think.
"The theme that Roger tackles so well with his words are universal and they are just as relevant today as they were 33 years ago when it first came out."
The track, which received 23% of the total votes, was joined in the final by The Beach Boys' God Only Knows (16%) and Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah (17%).
Other songs in the running included REM's Everybody Hurts and John Lennon's Imagine.
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