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The official Alan Parsons Project website provides information about Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson and all of the APP albums. APP albums, CDs, Vinyl and box sets can all be purchased via the official APP shop .
The Alan Parsons Project was a progressive rock music entity comprised of engineer/ producer Alan Parsons and songwriter, musician and manager Eric Woolfson. They released 10 concept albums between 1976 – 1987 and have sold over 55 million albums world-wide.
Alan Parsons was 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.
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1974 - Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons met at Abbey Road Studios. 1975 - The Alan Parsons Project was created and a record deal signed with 20th Century Records. 1976 - The first APP album Tales of Mystery and Imagination was released. 1977 - Clive Davis signed the APP for what became a 10 album record deal for I Robot was released which ...
Complete 11 LP Box Set. Buy Now. Originally released in 2014 on CD, The Alan Parsons Project – The Complete Albums Collection is now being made available in a beautifully packaged deluxe vinyl 11 LP box set and is limited to just 1,500 copies worldwide.
Around this time, Eric had the idea to make an album inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. He wrote some of the material which later found its way into the Alan Parsons Project and at that time he recorded some demos with guitarist Rick Westwood of THE TREMELOES.
Based on the life and work of the great author and poet, Edgar Allan Poe. The later re-issue on CD (in 1987) was re-mixed from the original master tapes enhancing some of the tracks and including the Orson Welles narration, recorded for the original launch of the album in 1976. CD. Buy Now. Blu-ray 5.1.
Ammonia Avenue. The title itself was the name of the main ‘street’ in a large chemical industrial plant where there were no trees or people to be seen, merely miles of pipes.
At the time this album was conceived, interests in pyramids and so-called pyramid power was all the rage. A pyramid could be found on the back of a dollar bill, there were stories in the newspapers about the supposed magical properties of pyramids and of course, the cover of Dark Side of the Moon.
