And he believes the Fab Four faced a similar risk when they launched the original in 1967. Coyne tells MusicRadar: "People get very proprietary about this sort of thing. When we did Floyd's Dark Side there were some who had these violent, outraged reactions. It's like we defiled a classic or something.

"There's only one Mona Lisa, so if you put a moustache on it, you really f***ed it up. But music isn't like that - The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd still exists, and Sgt Pepper by The Beatles will still exist. We just did our homages to those records, because they inspired us."