Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ Award to Auction
View(s):The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) gold plaque signifying Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon LP that sold a million dollars’ worth of copies was auctioned off by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on Thursday.
The award was once owned by Pink Floyd’s former keyboardist and founding member, Richard Wright, who died in 2008 at age 65.
‘Pink Floyd memorabilia has been in great demand in recent months’ Nate Sanders said in a statement.’Even the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is hosting an extremely popular retrospective of this iconic band’.
The Dark Side of the Moon came out in 1973, reached Number One on the Billboard Albums chart and went on to sell more than 15 million copies in the U.S. alone. Last March, the console used to record the LP sold for $1.8 million – more than twice the expected price.
According to Nate D. Sanders Auctions’ website, The minimum bid for The Dark Side of the Moon gold plaque starts at $20,000.
