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The Alan Parsons Project is a progressive rock artist from London, UK formed in 1975. 31 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Progressive Rock · London, UK · Best progressive rock albums
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I Robot
1977 · 10 tracks
Vulture Culture
1985
The Turn of a Friendly Card
1980
Gaudi
1987
Ammonia Avenue
1984
Eve
1979
Stereotomy
1985
The Best of The Alan Parsons Project
1983
The Sicilian Defence
2014
Pyramid
1978
The Instrumental Works
2023
Tales Of Mystery And Imagination (Original 1976 Version)
2023
The Essential Alan Parsons Project
2007
The Dutch Collection
2006
Platinum & Gold Collection
2003
The Best of The Alan Parsons Project, Vol. 2
1987
Tales Of Mystery And Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe (1987 Remix)
1987
Vulture Culture (2024 Remaster)
1985
Vulture Culture (Sessions)
1985
Ammonia Avenue (Sessions)
1984
Eye In The Sky (Sessions)
1982
The Turn of a Friendly Card (Sessions)
1980
Eve (Sessions)
1979
I Robot (Sessions)
1977
Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe
1976
The Alan Parsons Project came into being when sound engineer Alan Parsons met songwriter Eric Woolfson in the canteen at Abbey Road Studios in the summer of 1974. Parsons already had a legendary CV – he was assistant engineer on the Beatles’ Abbey Road and Let It Be, and the engineer behind Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. Woolfson had long been working on a concept album based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and together they found a formula where Parsons’ production genius met Woolfson’s melodic songwriting. The result was the debut album Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976), which laid the foundation for a series of ambitious concept records on Arista Records. Over 15 years they released eleven studio albums, with I Robot (1977), The Turn of a Friendly Card (1980), and Eye in the Sky (1982) as the most successful. The project never performed live during its heyday – this was a pure studio vision, built layer by layer with a shifting cast of session musicians and guest vocalists. Among their best-known songs are “Games People Play,” “Time,” “Eye in the Sky,” and “Don’t Answer Me.” The instrumental piece “Sirius” has taken on a life of its own as one of the world’s mos…
