Where guest spots were few and far between on Pink Floyd records, The Beatles‘ Paul McCartney very nearly made an appearance on The Dark Side of the Moon.
McCartney, who fronted Wings shortly after the breakup of the Fab Four, could have been featured on the progressive-rock masterpiece, but was cut for a crucial reason. The Maybe I’m Amazed songwriter got as far as recording vocal work for the album, but it was ultimately removed. Roger Waters, the band’s bassist and songwriter, has since explained why he found McCartney was not suitable for the part on The Dark Side of the Moon. A part of McCartney’s style in the studio did not sit well with the Money songwriter, who made the decision to cut him from the album as it “wasn’t what we wanted at all.”
It seems the reason McCartney was cut from the album is because he was unable to take the project all that seriously. Waters has said the reason McCartney’s work on The Dark Side of the Moon was removed is, ultimately, because he found it “necessary to perform”.
Waters explained: “He was the only one who found it necessary to perform, which was useless. I thought it was really interesting that he would do that. He was trying to be funny, which wasn’t what we wanted at all.”
While McCartney may not have become an honorary member of the band or even featured on The Dark Side of the Moon, he did work with guitarist David Gilmour frequently. The pair collaborated on McCartney’s solo album, Give My Regards to Broad Street, and also performed at The Cavern Club in Liverpool together in 1999.
McCartney spoke fondly of working with Gilmour on the album, and says the Pink Floyd guitarist is by far the best part of the album. The veteran frontman shared: “This was getting into the days of the big music video, and we did two for this song. One was shot in the train station at night, and the other was a bit of a clip reel with highlights from the film.
“The single did really well but just missed being number one, which I think was Wham!’s Freedom.” The song in question, No More Lonely Nights, also featured Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour on guitar. McCartney praised Gilmour for his “really nice” solo and went on to recall playing with the legendary guitarist at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.
He added: “But Gilmour really goes to town on that solo, especially on the album version, which is longer and gives him more space to play. It’s a really nice solo, with that signature Fender Stratocaster sound of his.
“He played guitar at a show I did at The Cavern Club in December 1999, which they’d reopened along the street from where it had been when The Beatles originally played there. So, that was a pretty good way to see out the twentieth century.”
Though McCartney may not feature on the album, his music certainly does, though it appears to have been an accident. According to Far Out Magazine, an orchestral version of The Beatles’ Ticket to Ride can be heard towards the end of Eclipse.
The snippet comes as a doorman tells the listener there is no dark side of the moon as it is all dark. Straining to hear the orchestral version may lead to a slight sound of The Beatles’ classic track.
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