David Gilmour was a guest The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday night, November 7, legendary Pink Floyd The late-night host quizzed the singer-guitarist about the long-standing theory surrounding the album Dark Side of the Moon and movie The Wizard of Oz.

Thanks to the “Dark Side of the Rainbow” theory, first widely publicized in Charles Savage’s article published in 1995 Fort Wayne Magazine NewspaperIt is believed if you start Dark Side of the Moon just as the MGM lion roars at the beginning The Wizard of OzThe music matches the scenes in the classic film almost perfectly.

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This has led some people to think that Pink Floyd deliberately recorded the 1973 album to synchronize it with the 1939 film; Fallon asked Gilmour this question. The Tonight Show.

“Of course it was,” Gilmour joked, before revealing that he and wife Polly Samson had tried it. “Polly and I listened to this years ago,” the rock icon continued, before Fallon asked again if the band planned this on purpose. Gilmour replied: “No. I only heard about it years later.”

Gilmour later added: “Someone said you put the needle in… and on the third roar of the MGM lion, you put the needle in for the beginning. Dark Side and strange synchronicities emerge.”

“There are these weird coincidences,” the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer admitted.

Fallon later joked maybe if fans played Gilmour’s new solo album. Luck and Strangewhile they watch the new movie BadGilmour’s “Who knows?” The same kinds of synchronicities would occur that he exclaimed.

Elsewhere in the interview, Gilmour touched on whether his famous cough from the song “Wish You Were Here” caused him to quit smoking. He also talked about his early days as a male model.

David Gilmour will wrap up his five-night stand at New York City’s Madison Square Garden with two shows on Saturday, November 9, and Sunday, November 10. To collect tickets are here.

The full interview with Fallon can be seen below, while a performance of her solo single “Dark and Velvet Nights” can also be seen below. The Tonight Show it could be seen here.