Alan Project Parsons - Best Of The Alan Parsons Project (CD) (US Import)
Alan Project Parsons - Best Of The Alan Parsons Project (CD) (US Import)
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Imported from the USA
- Artist
- Alan Project Parsons
- EAN/UPC
- 4007196100527
- Product Type
- CD
- Label
- Arista
- Cat No
- 610 052-222
- Released
- 1986
- Pressing
- Europe
- Studio
- Arista Import
- Music Genre
- Pop rock , Electronic , Rock
- Styles
- Pop Rock
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Description
The Alan Parsons Project — The Best Of The Alan Parsons Project
Format: CD • Label: Arista (610 052-222) • Released: 1986 • Pressing: Europe • Genre: Pop Rock
Tracklist:
1. I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You
2. Eye In The Sky
3. Games People Play
4. Time
5. Pyromania
6. You Don't Believe
7. Lucifer
8. Psychobabble
9. Damned If I Do
10. Don't Let It Show
11. Can't Take It With You
12. Old And Wise
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About the artist
British Rock studio project initially formed to record a concept album about Edgar Allan Poe. They became best known for the power ballad "Eye in the Sky" and the instrumental "Sirius".
Official band members
● Alan Parsons – production, engineering, programming, composition, keyboards, guitar
● Eric Woolfson – composition, lyrics, piano, keyboards, vocals, executive production
Notable contributors
● Andrew Powell – composition, keyboards, orchestral arrangements (1975-1990)
● Philharmonia Orchestra
● The English Chorale – choir (1976, 1977, 1982, 1987)
● Ian Bairnson – guitar (1975–1990)
● David Pack – guitar (1976)
● David Paton – bass, vocals (1975–1985)
● Duncan Mackay – keyboards (1977–1979)
● Richard Cottle – keyboards, saxophone (1984–1990)
● Laurence Cottle – bass (1987-1990)
● Stuart Tosh – drums, percussion (1975–1976)
● Stuart Elliott – drums, percussion (1977–1990)
● John Leach – cimbalom, kantele (1976–1978)
● Colin Blunstone – vocals (1978–1984)
● Chris Rainbow – vocals (1979–1990)
● Lenny Zakatek – vocals (1977–1987)
● John Miles – vocals (1976, 1978, 1985, 1987)
● Jack Harris – vocals (1976–1978)
● Dave Townsend – vocals (1977, 1979)
● Elmer Gantry a.k.a. Dave Terry – vocals (1980, 1982)
● Graham Dye – vocals (1985, 1990)
Non-recurring vocalists include: Arthur Brown (1975), Allan Clarke (1977), Peter Straker (1977), Jaki Whitren (1977), Dean Ford (1978), Clare Torry (1979), Lesley Duncan (1979), Gary Brooker (1985), Geoff Barradale (1987), Eric Stewart (1990)
Notable instruments: Projectron - A device built by Alan Parsons as an analog sample playback device, similar in general concept to a Mellotron. The Projectron consisted of a 24-track tape machine, with each playback channel routed to a voltage controlled amplifier; each VCA was in turn gated by a key of an attached keyboard. The device was used on the albums I Robot, Pyramid, and The Turn of a Friendly Card. But preparing tapes was a cumbersome process and the device was maintenance-intensive, so as soon as a Fairlight CMI became available to Parsons, he switched his sampling activities to that. Parsons scrapped the Projectron sometime after 1980, and no photos of it are known to have survived.
Source: Discogs