The Alan Parsons Project

The Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock and pop group active between 1975 and 1987, founded by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.

Most of

The Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock and pop group active between 1975 and 1987, founded by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.

Most of their titles, especially the early work, share common traits (probably influenced by Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, on which Alan was the audio engineer in 1973): they were concept albums, started with an instrumental introduction fading in to the first song, had an instrumental piece in the middle of the second LP side, and concluded with a quiet/sad/powerful song. (However, the opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 - from that year on, no Project album except "Eye In The Sky" featured one.)