Back in March, we told you of a new book about Pink Floyd's classic album, "Dark Side Of The Moon", being published by Ashgate Publishing.

Amazon are now stating that the book, available as a hardback and softback (it is to be a simultaneous dual edition) will be published at the end of January 2005. Now, when we were in contact with Ashgate in March they believed that it would be around a year before the book appeared. We contacted Heidi at Ashgate today, who told us that the publication date is likely to be April, and not January.

"Speak To Me: The Legacy of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon" will contain fourteen essays, three interviews and a 50-page annotated bibliography. Literary and music scholars from across the globe will contribute the essays, which all focus on the music, and Floydian Slip's Craig Bailey provides the preface to the book.

The three interviews are with Clare Torry, who sings on the album, Mike Gordon of Phish, who have performed the album in concert, and Michael Goldwasser of Easy Star Records, who produced the excellent "Dub Side Of The Moon" reggae tribute to Dark Side - reviewed elsewhere on this website.

You can preorder the book for delivery upon release - use these special links. For the hardback, click for UK/Elsewhere, France or Germany, and if you want to order the paperback instead, click for UK/Elsewhere, France or Germany. As yet, ordering details for the US/Canada/etc is not available.

We hope to have more detail on this book soon from the publishers. Our thanks to Heidi at Ashgate Publishing for her help and prompt attention!