An article looking back at Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon era highlights how the band's music often emerged from creative tension between David Gilmour and Roger Waters, with each able to identify passages the other contributed. It focuses in particular on Gilmour's view of "Money", the 1973 track later released as a single, which he says is entirely stamped with Waters' character despite Gilmour's own input into its arrangement.

Gilmour has said Waters brought the song to the studio largely finished, needing only a progressive instrumental section added before the guitar solo, and singled out its unusual seven-eight time signature as distinctly reflecting Waters rather than himself. Waters has separately admitted the song's lyrics, while somewhat satirical, genuinely reflected his own desire for wealth at the time, recalling that he coveted a Bentley and saw rock success or the football pools as the only routes to affording one. Producer Bob Ezrin and drummer Nick Mason also feature, recalling similar collaborative give-and-take on tracks such as "Comfortably Numb" and praising Dark Side of the Moon as the band's most complete album.