We just learned Barry St. John, who sang on Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” (1973) died last month. She was 76.
St. John, whose real name was Eliza Janet Thomson, recorded singles in the ’60s as a solo artist before focusing on session work in the ’70s. In December ’65, she hit the U.K. Top 40 with “Come Away Melinda.”
“With Pink Floyd, I remember there were five sessions that day and the one for ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ was the last one,” she told The Strange Brew in an interview. “It was all right but a bit weird. They didn’t seem to smile. I remember Lesley Duncan told somebody that she didn’t know what we had done wrong because they were so stand-offish.”
St. John can be heard on Dark Side’s “Time,” “Us and Them,” and “Brain Damage/Eclipse.”
As a session singer, the Glasgow native worked with John Lennon, Bryan Ferry, Elton John, John Baldry, John Cale, Mott the Hoople and many more.
