And as Parsons admits at the top of the call, “I’ve been doing more interviews in the last three days than I’ve done in my entire life, I think - just people who wanted me to pay my respects to George, which I’m glad to do.” Parsons called to drum up support for the local stop on this year’s Alan Parsons’ Greatest Hit Tour, which visits Phoenix on Friday, March 25.īut George Martin, a man he calls a “major milestone in the path of my career,” died a few days earlier. “Tales of Mystery and Imagination” is about to be reissued in a new deluxe edition to honor the 40th anniversary of the initial release. Same frame of reference, two completely different goals. This time, Parsons tells me the intent was more to “write and assemble a concept album that we hoped would be every bit as big as ‘Dark Side of the Moon.’ ” And that's basically what we set out to do.” Two years ago, Parsons told me, "Eric and I said, 'Let's see if we can make a record as good as 'Dark Side of the Moon' without Pink Floyd. That Pink Floyd album was, in fact, the multiplatinum standard against which he and his Parsons Project partner, Eric Woolfson, were competing against as they went into the sessions for the concept album, “Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe.” The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Part Two)ĬOPYRIGHT ©2022 Alan Parsons Live ITS SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS.At 18, Alan Parsons took a job at Abbey Road, where he assistant engineered the sessions for the Beatles albums “Let It Be” and “Abbey Road.” By the time he formed the Alan Parsons Project, he’d gone on to engineer “The Dark Side of the Moon.” The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Part One)ġ3. Alejandro Posada conducts the Medellin Philharmonic Orchestraĩ. Olsson (lead vocals), Alastair Greene (guitar, vocals), Guy Erez (bass, vocals), Danny Thompson (drums, vocals), Tom Brooks (keyboards, vocals) und Todd Cooper (saxophone, guitar, percussion, vocals). The lineup consists of Alan Parsons on acoustic guitar, keys, and vocals, P.J. Together, they revitalize hits such as “ Eye In The Sky“, “Don’t Answer Me“ and “Sirius“. Now to the great delight of his fans, for the first time on a live video and audio recording, THE ALAN PARSONS SYMPHONIC PROJECT combines the talents of his amazing band with the lush sound of a 70-piece symphony orchestra, creating a very special show with unmatched quality. Then Parsons and Woolfson called it a day, but Parsons had ambitions to perform the amazing music live.
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Together with his manager and creative partner at the time, Eric Woolfson, he developed the Alan Parsons Project.įollowing their debut album “ Tales Of Mystery And Imagination“ (1976), they released a series of hit albums namely “ I Robot” (1977), “ Pyramid” (1978), “ The Turn of a Friendly Card” (1980), “ Eye in the Sky” (1982), “ Ammonia Avenue” (1984), “ Vulture Culture” (1985), “ Stereotomy” (1986) and “ Gaudi” (1987). As a producer he had many hits with Pilot, John Miles, Ambrosia and Al Stewart. Following his beginnings with George Martin and The Beatles, his contribution to Pink Floyd’s classic ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ earned him worldwide attention. THE ALAN PARSONS SYMPHONIC PROJECT “Live in Colombia” is to be released on in Europe and on Jon earMUSIC as a DVD, Blu-ray, 2-CD Digipak, 3 x Vinyl, and download.Īlan Parsons was 19 years old when he landed a job at the world famous Abbey Road Studios, an important first step on his journey to becoming a world class engineer, producer and artist. This is an audio visual document of that incredible evening.
On the evening of August 31st, 2013, a large crowd gathered at Parque Pies Descalzos in Medellín, Colombia. When Alan Parsons appeared on stage, along with the Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra and his band the audience went wild.
43 YEARS AFTER HIS CONTRIBUTION TO ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL RECORDS OF ALL TIME AND 40 YEARS AFTER THE RELEASE OF THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT’S DEBUT ALBUM IN 1976, ALAN PARSONS RETURNS WITH ALL HIS GREATEST HITS IN A SUPERB SYMPHONIC SHOW