TIL browsing Wikipedia:
"Echoes (1971) features a prominent instrumental riff that is identical to the main theme in Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical The Phantom of the Opera."
IMO, it's a lot more powerful when (a) played on electric guitars, and (b) meant to convey the billion-year struggle of Life as it "climbs towards the light"
#pinkfloyd
https://invidious.drgns.space/watch?v=BW9Kts3fo98
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