With Gilmour

firmly in the ranks, the band continued to explore rock's more avant-garde pastures. While subsequent albums and film soundtracks like Antonioni's Zabriskie Point expanded the band's international audience, it was 1971's Meddle and the now-legendary Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) that finally transformed Pink Floyd into a major force in contemporary music. "Meddle is really the album where all four of us were finding our feet -- the way we wanted Pink Floyd to be," says Gilmour. "Although our two previous albums, Ummagumma (1969) and Atom Heart Mother (1970) had some pointers to where we would finally go, they just aren't as important."