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Born in Britain on December 20, 1948, Alan soon found that his interests lay in music. He studied piano and flute as a child and was always intrigued by gadgetry. He picked up the guitar in his early teens and played as a soloist as well as with various bands at school. One of his first jobs was at an EMI tape duplication facility in West London. At this time he was fortunate enough to experience the master tape of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper album and that boosted his determination to become a recording engineer. Says Alan , "I couldn't wait to find out the secrets behind the album. It left me totally in awe of the talent of The Beatles themselves of course, but also the work behind the scenes in the studio". His timing was perfect. He landed a post at the then not-so-celebrated Abbey Road Studios and garnered significant experience on the Beatles' Let It Be album, and actively participated in the famous Apple rooftop session. The Abbey Road album (released before Let It Be but recorded later) helped Alan to make his mark with the Fab Four, although he was only an assistant engineer at that time. Still, it resulted in Alan going on to work as a full-blown engineer with Paul McCartney on McCartney, Wings Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway, including the singles Hi Hi Hi and C Moon. Alan adds "I couldn't have asked for a better grounding in recording - after all not many engineers got to work the greatest Rock act of all time". He also helped out on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass album both as an assistant and as a mix engineer. After the experience of The Beatles, Alan worked on a number of hits with The Hollies including He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother and The Air That I Breathe. However, his reputation was totally solidified with his engineering work on Pink Floyd's legendary Dark Side Of The Moon, which earned him the first of many Grammy nominations. Alan soon ventured into production with the British band Pilot and scored immediate success with the hit single Magic. (You know - "Oh Ho Ho It's Magic!!"). Other hits followed with Cockney Rebel and John Miles. Alan made three albums with Al Stewart, spawning the hit singles Year Of The Cat and Time Passages. Along with songwriter/manager Eric Woolfson, Alan decided to begin creating his own thematic records and founded the Alan Parsons s s Project. Although he occasionally played keyboards and infrequently sang on his records, the Project was designed primarily as a forum for a revolving collection of vocalists and session players - among them Arthur Brown, ex-Zombie Colin Blunstone, Cockney Rebel's Steve Harley, the Hollies' Allan Clarke and guitarist Ian Bairnson -- to interpret and perform Parsons s s and Woolfson's conceptually-linked, lushly arranged and orchestrated music.
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Alan Parsons Studio albums 1976 Tales of Mystery and Imagination 1977 I Robot 1978 Pyramid 1979 Eve 1980 The Turn of a Friendly Card 1982 Eye In The Sky 1984 Ammonia Avenue 1985 Vulture Culture 1986 Stereotomy 1987 Gaudi 1987 Tales of Mystery and Imagination (remastered) 1990 Freudiana 1993 Try Anything Once 1994 The Very Best Live (European release) 1995 The Very Best Live (US release, same as above, plus three studio tracks) 1996 On Air (w/bonus CD-ROM) 1999 The Time Machine 2004 A Valid Path Alan Parsons Compilations 1983 The Best of The Alan Parsons s s Project 1987 The Best of The Alan Parsons s s Project - vol. 2 1987 Limelight: The Best of The Alan Parsons s s Project 1988 The Instrumental Works 1989 Pop Classics 1991 Anthology 1992 The Ultimate Collection 1992 The Best of The Alan Parsons s s Project 1997 The Definitive Collection 1998 Gold Collection 1999 Master Hits (aka "Heritage Series") 1999 Encore Collection (aka "Eye In The Sky" + extra tracks) 2002 Love Songs 2002 Works 2003 The Hits 2003 Silence & I: Very Best Of 2003 Platinum and Gold Collection
Video clips from a 2004 performance of the Alan Parsons s Live Project in Madrid, Spain. * Damned If I Do * More Lost Without You * Don't Let It Show * The Raven |
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![]() .... mixing 'Tabular Bells' ![]() .. programming Fairlight CMI ![]() ... playing guitar and Yahama Motif 7 |
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2005 April April 3 Palma, Mallorca, Spain - Teatro Auditorium April 5 Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands - Auditorio Alfredo Kraus April 6 Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands - Auditorio Alfredo Kraus April 8 Zaragoza, Spain - Multiusos April 9 Granada, Spain - Palacio De Congresos April 11 Naples, Italy - Teatro Augusteo April 12 Rome, Italy - Gran Teatro April 14 Rimini, Italy - Velvet Rock Club April 15 Verona, Italy - Gate 52 April 18 Zoetermeer, Netherlands - Boerderlj April 19 Zoetermeer, Netherlands - Boerderlj April 20 St Petersburg, Russia - Oktyabrsky Hall April 23 Moscow, Russia - Moscow Kremlin Palace |
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advanced technologic sound magazine 2005 April issue 136
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