Music: “On the Run” continues you can hear the woman announcing flights at the airport. Auntie Em arrives with crullers, scolds Dorothy and the farmhands, and sets them - and herself - on the run to get the chores done. Movie: Zeke races into the pigpen, rescues Dorothy, and, once they’re safely outside, sits down, wipes his brow and clutches his chest as he recovers from his fright. Music: Makes an abrupt change to the frenzied “On The Run” introduction. Movie: Dorothy is talking to Zeke and walking on the fence rail between two pigpens when she loses her balance and tumbles into the pigpen. Music: “Long you live and high you fly/But only if you ride the tide/And balanced on the biggest wave/You Race towards and early grave.” The album boasts the song “Great Gig in The Sky,” which sounds like the perfect name for a song to go with a movie about a tornado. The movie’s keynote song, “Over The Rainbow,” fits neatly with the iconic, light-splitting prism design used for the album’s cover art.
There are plenty of tidy thematic coincidences between Wizard of Oz and Dark Side of the Moon. But it sure seems like Wizard of Oz is a better fit - at least, hearing Roger Waters speak the line “I don’t know I was really drunk at the time” while we gaze upon Munchkin Land seems like a pretty realistic reaction. So those evil flying monkeys could be symbolic Nazis. It has nothing to do with ‘The Wizard of Oz.’ It was all based on ‘The Sound of Music.’” Pink Floyd has denied the rumor outright for years, with Floyd drummer Nick Mason giving one of our favorite answers to MTV in 1997: “It’s absolute nonsense. Urban legend claims that if you play Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon while watching “The Wizard of Oz,” there’s an incredible synchronicity that could only come about had the band literally planned the entire album around the movie.
According to, when you see the credit “Produced by Mervyn LeRoy,” the credit should be fading amid the transition from “Speak to Me” to “Breathe.”
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