It's a time-honored rite of passage for Pink Floyd fans: At some point or another, another fellow music lover will say something along the lines of, "Hey, have you ever noticed that if you start playing Dark Side of the Moon at the same time the MGM lion roars in the beginning of The Wizard of Oz, the music syncs up perfectly with the scenes in the movie?"
It might sound like nonsense, but if you've ever tried it, you know the theory actually holds up pretty well. But was this intentional on the part of the band?
During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last year, David Gilmour weighed in on the longstanding rumor.
“Well, of course it was,” he quipped when host Jimmy Fallon asked if the 1973 album was written to synchronize with the 1939 film, before going on to admit that he and his wife, Polly Samson, tested the theory themselves.
“We listened to it, Polly and I, years ago,” Gilmour said.
"There was no planning it out?" Fallon asked.
“No. I only heard about that years later," the guitarist admitted. “Someone said you put the needle on — vinyl, you know — and you've got the film running somehow, and on the third roar of the MGM lion, you put the needle on for the beginning of Dark Side and there’s these strange synchronicities that happen.”
"It's kind of amazing," offered Fallon.
“There are these strange coincidences," Gilmour agreed. "I'll call them coincidences."
David GilmourPhoto by Gijsbert Hanekroot on Getty Images
David Gilmour supported himself as a model before Pink Floyd
During the same interview, Fallon asked Gilmour whether it was true that he worked as a model before he became a rock star, which he confirmed.
“Well, that was my life’s course, but I failed, you know? I had to go for second-best and be a musician,” he joked.
As Gilmour explained, modeling wasn't the only way he supported himself as an aspiring musician.
“I was working as a van driver at that moment in time, and my wages as a van driver was £7 a week. No, they weren’t. I’m lying. That was what I got when I first joined Pink Floyd. No, it was £15 a week. True story,” he recalled. “But I was getting £15 a week for driving a van eight hours a day. One day of modeling, and you get £50. So it’s like…I mean, come on. I mean, these jobs didn’t come flying along all the time. It was a way of building up my resources to buy a new guitar or something that I actually needed.”
Considering Gilmour's net worth is currently estimated at around $180 million, per Wealthy Gorilla, he can definitely buy all the new guitars he wants now.
Related: Why This Pink Floyd Member Is Worth Millions More Than His Bandmates
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