| This is the Alan Parsons one time producer at the Abbey Road studios .
The only album I can recollect at the moment is "Eye In The Sky",one
of the bigger hits from the album being the title song,there was some
other one I can't remember!
I will try and "unearth" more info!!
M.J.
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| Alan Parson Project discography:
1976 - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
1977 - I Robot
1978 - Pyramid
1979 - Eve
1980 - Turn of a Friendly Card
1981 - Eye in the Sky
1984 - Ammonia Avenue
1985 - Vulture Culture
1986 - Stereotomy
1987 - Gaudi
1990 - Freudiana (not acutualy 'The Project', but the soundtrack of a
stage show he and Eric Woolfson put on in Vienna)
+ two 'Best of' compilations and an 'Instrumental best of'
Incidently, the song you're thinking of off of 'Eye in the Sky' is 'Old
and Wise' which just got into the Top 40.
Ian
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| I had no interest in music at all until I doscovered APP when I was about 15,
and have all their albums except this mysterious Freudiana on that I had not
heard of. These days I find them pretty ballsless (compared to say, The The or
Living Colour!) and the lyrics are often very weak indeed, but programmes like
QED would be lost without their very fine instrumentals: most readers have
probably never heard of APP but would recognise 'Gensesis Ch 1 Vs 34' immediately.
Like Camel (of which I have had less exposure), the best bits of their concept
albums are the the bits that stray off the subject.
+Mark+
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| Freudiana is not an Alan Parson album. Eric Woolfson, his long time
collaborater wrote a musical documentary of Sigmund Freud. It's
produced by Parsons, has all the musicians from 'the project', etc. It
features guest vocalists (Flying Pickets, Kiki Dee, Marti Webb, Leo
Sayer, and Frankie Howerd).
Personally, I agree that later Parsons stuff has been pretty naff, but
Freudiana marks a return IMHO to prior heights. Extremely good, and at
almost 80 minutes, good value as well.
It was also turned into a stage play, which as far as I know was only
done as a one-off in Vienna.
It took me ages to find the record, as I was looking under Alan Parsons
Project for it, but eventually found it under Misc F.
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