The Alan Parsons Project | |
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![]() Eric Woolfson (left) and Alan Parsons | |
Background information | |
Origin | London, England |
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Years active | 1975–1990 |
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Past members | |
Website | the-alan-parsons-project |
The Alan Parsons Project were a British rock band active between 1975 and 1990,[1] whose core membership consisted of producer, audio engineer, musician, and composer Alan Parsons and singer, songwriter, and pianist Eric Woolfson. They shared writing credits on almost all of their songs, with Parsons producing or co-producing all of the recordings, while being accompanied by various session musicians, some relatively consistent.
The Alan Parsons Project released eleven studio albums over a 15-year career, the most successful ones being I Robot (1977), The Turn of a Friendly Card (1980) and Eye in the Sky (1982). Many of their albums are conceptual in nature and focus on science fiction, supernatural, literary and sociological themes. Among the group's most popular songs are "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You", "Games People Play", "Time", "Sirius"/"Eye in the Sky", and "Don't Answer Me".