Alan Parsons had dabbled with live performance in his late teens as a folk/… Read Full Bio ↴Alan Parsons had dabbled with live performance in his late teens as a folk/blues acoustic player and as a lead guitarist with a blues band in the late sixties. But as soon as he landed a job at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London at the age of 19, it became clear that the world of sound recording was to dominate his career. He was fortunate enough to work as assistant engineer on the last two albums by The Beatles and after he qualified as a fully-fledged recording engineer, he went on to work with Paul McCartney and The Hollies among many others. But it was his contribution as engineer on Pink Floyd’s classic Dark Side Of The Moon that really got him world attention. That soon led to striking successes as a producer – notably with Pilot’s Magic, John Miles’ High Fly and Music, and Steve Harley’s (Come Up And See Me) Make Me Smile.

He also produced the hugely successful Year Of The Cat album with Al Stewart and two albums with American progressive rock band Ambrosia. In 1975 he met Eric Woolfson who not only became his manager, but joined forces with Alan as a songwriting and performing partner for what became known as The Alan Parsons Project. The APP’s debut album, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, paved the way for a signing to Clive Davis’ newly launched Arista label and a string of hit albums, namely I Robot (1977), Pyramid (1978), The Turn of a Friendly Card (1980), Eye in the Sky (1982), Ammonia Avenue (1984), Vulture Culture (1985), Stereotomy (1986) and Gaudi (1987). A brief venture into musical theatre resulted in Freudiana in 1990.The show ran for over a year in the historic Theater An Der Wien in Vienna. Eric and Alan then went separate ways. Eric devoted his career to the musical theatre while Parsons felt the need to bring his music to the live concert stage and to continue to record conceptual symphonic rock music. With his long-standing previous APP collaborators, guitarist Ian Bairnson, drummer Stuart Elliott and orchestral arranger Andrew Powell, Alan dropped the "Project" identity for Alan Parsons - Try Anything Once in 1994. The partnership continued for On Air in 1996 and The Time Machine in 1999. During this time the first incarnation of "Alan Parsons Live Project" toured to sell-out audiences throughout the globe.

Following Alan’s relocation to California, a new Live Project band was formed in 2003. The album A Valid Path, Alan’s foray into Electronica was released in 2004 and featured Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, The Crystal Method, Shpongle, Uberzone, PJ Olsson and Alan’s son, Jeremy. 2008 saw the reissue of all the Alan Parsons Project albums in expanded form, containing never-before-heard bonus material and a 2-CD compilation called The Essential Collection. One of the most familiar Project tracks is Sirius, perhaps best known as the Chicago Bulls theme and more recently as walk-on music for The New Orleans Saints at their triumphant Superbowl game in 2010.

Alan’s latest venture is an instructional series about recording called The Art And Science Of Sound Recording. See www.artandscienceofsound.com. All Our Yesterdays, a song written especially for the series, features some of LA’s finest musicians and a rare performance by Alan on lead vocals. Alan lives in Santa Barbara, California with his wife Lisa and her two daughters, Tabitha and Brittni, four dogs, a lop-eared rabbit, and an 18-hand Clydesdale called Dante.

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Alan Parsons Lyrics

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A Recurring Dream Within a Dream For my own part, I have never had a thought…
All Our Yesterdays The stakes are high We have to seize the chance A case…
Ammonia Avenue Is there no sign of light as we stand in…
Apollo voice: John F. Kennedy I believe that this nation …
As Lights Fall I set out to make my mark To forge a road…
Back Against The Wall Stand up, and with your hand on the Bible Tell the…
Blown by the Wind All along the shoreline There are footprints by the sea They…
Blue Blue Sky I only know what I can see So I imagine what…
Breakdown I break down in the middle and lose my thread No…

Brother Up in Heaven A boy flies for freedom But dies for the peace In the…
Call Of The Wild Well I've talked to the wind and I've listened to…
Call Up No one ever lived a thousand years Not like things we…
Can't Take It With You Lead vocal: dean ford Well I sympathise completely but ther…
Cask of Amontillado By the last breath of the four winds that blow I'll…
Children of the Moon Pay no attention to the writing on the wall The…
Chomolungma (Monologue by John Cleese) ...How much longer is this go…
Damned If I Do I ain't got a heart of stone I'm hurtin' more now…
Day After Day Gaze at the sky And picture a memory Of days in your…
Days Are Numbers Chris Rainbow - Lead Vocals The traveler is always leaving …
Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether Just what you need to make you feel better Just what…
Don If you believe in the power magic I can change your…
Don't Answer Me If you believe in the power magic I can change your…
Don't Hold Back Some are born to lose their heads And some are…
Don't Hold Me Back Some are born to lose their heads And some are…
Don't Let It Show If it's getting harder to face every day Don't let it…
Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether Just what you need to make you feel better Just what…
Eagle Will Rise Again And I could easily fall from grace Then another would take…
Eye In The Sky Don't think sorry's easily said Don't try turning tables ins…
Fall Free What's the use of worrying if we'll be here tomorrow All…
Far Ago and Long Away Instrumental Written by ian bairnson Guitars: ian bairnson …
Fly to Me Fly To Me What can you say about magic That's not been…
Fragile If you look behind the curtain of the velvet in your…
Games People Play Where do we go from here now that all of…
Gemini Watching waiting rising falling Listening calling drifting T…
I Can't Get There from Here I CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE Seize the day That is what…
I Can't Look Down (by Ian Bairnson) (lead vocal - Neil Lockwood) Another…
I Cant Get There from Here I CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE Seize the day That is what…
I Don Go back home you damn fool Surely you know you can't…
I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You If I had a mind to I wouldn't want to think…
I Wouldn´t Want to Be Like You If I had a mind to I wouldn't want to think…
I'd Rather Be A Man You don't fool me with your tinted eyes and make-up The…
I'm Talkin To You Somehow you fell out of time Boy you lost your place…
I'm Talking to You Somehow you fell out of time Boy you lost your place…
If I Could Change Your Mind I prefer to spend my time in solitary ways Keeping myself…
Ignorance Is Bliss I find this Paradise and rest beside a river No…
Im Talkin to You Somehow you fell out of time Boy you lost your place…
in the real world One more compromise I won't be making One more easy way…
La Sagrada Familia Who knows where the read may lead us, only a…
Let Let's talk about me for a minute Well how do you…
Let Me Go Home Waiting till the sun goes down Shadows walk in the night L…
Let's Talk About Me Let's talk about me for a minute Well how do you…
Limelight I can see the glow of a distant sun I can…
More Lost Without You There's not a day I don't think of your name The state…
Mr Time Stealing a moment from Mr. Time He rocks in his chair…
My Be a Price to Pay Something's wrong in this house today While the master was r…
No Future In The Past Yesterdays come easy They're looking back at you The sun wil…
Nothing Left to Lose Nothing's good the news is bad The heat goes on and…
Oh Life Waves roll out Out to sea Tasting the saltwater Tears upon h…
Old and Wise As far as my eyes can see There are Shadows approaching…
One Day to Fly Where does a dream belong Locked in the mind on the…
One Good Reason Gimme one good reason why I should listen to you I…
One More River Don't look back 'cause there's one more river. Don't turn yo…
One Note Symphony The world is spinning endlessly It hums the healing frequenc…
Out Of The Blue Out of the blue I come sailing Through the years Through the…
Press Rewind If you could press rewind and do it all again…
Prime Time Well even the longest night won't last forever But too…
Psychobabble Tell you 'bout a dream that I have every night Tell…
Pyramania There are pyramids in my head! There's one underneath my be…
Raven The clock struck midnight And through my sleeping I heard a …
Requiem Requiem Well, I thought that one day You and me would…
Rubber Universe Instrumental Written by ian bairnson Keyboards, guitars, ba…
Shadow of a Lonely Man Look at me now, a shadow of the man I…
Silence & I If I cried out loud Over sorrows I've known And the secrets…
Silence and I If I cried out loud over sorrows I've Known And the secret…
Since the Last Goodbye The hours, the minutes seem to fly And since the last…
Siren Song Days go by Adrift upon a rolling sky The miracles escape my…
Sirius/Eye In The Sky Don't think sorry's easily said Don't try turning tables ins…
Snake Eyes Snake eyes, seven eleven Don't let me down, boys Gimme snake…
So Far Away We say welcome to the mission Show us all what you…
Soirée Fantastique And now a trick that is done with mirrors To exist…
Some Other Time In the matter of a moment Lost till the end of…
Standing on Higher Ground I know the truth But I can't say And I have to…
Step by Step I was just a joker in a serious game I Didn't…
stereotomy Diamond eyes That burn me and turn me to stone Crystalise …
Take the Money and Run Ask yourself a question now there's a multiple choice "You'…
Tell-Tale Heart You should have seen him Lying alone in helpless silence in…
Temporalia When you look into a night sky You see the stars…
The Call of the Wild Well I've talked to the wind and I've listened to…
The Eagle Will Rise Again And I could easily fall from grace Then another would take…
The NeverEnding Show Make a wish, and will it to exist Your name is…
The Raven The clock struck midnight And through my sleeping I heard a …
The Same Old Sun Tell me what to do, now the light in my…
The Three Of Me There's a voice on the phone Who just called in to…
The Time Machine Time, flowing like a river Time, beckoning me Who knows when…
The Turn Of A Friendly Card There are unsmiling faces in fetters and chains On a wheel…
The Very Last Time I need to remember the day When we said goodbye for…
The Voice It's almost a feeling you can touch in the air You…
Time Time, flowing like a river Time, beckoning me Who knows wh…
To One In Paradise If I could see the sky above And my mind could…
Too Close To The Sun There must be a thousand ways Holding us within this maze Ev…
Too late When you were standing in the rain I gave you…
Turn It Up It's no good believing in somebody else If you can't believe…
Turn of a Friendly Card Pt. 1 There are unsmiling faces and bright plastic chains And a wh…
Turn of a Friendly Card: Nothing Left to Lose Nothing's good the news is bad The heat goes on and…
Turn of a Friendly Card: Snake Eyes Snake eyes Seven eleven Don't let me down boys Gimme Sna…
Voice It's almost a feeling you can touch in the air You…
We Play the Game Where do we go from here now that all other…
What Goes Up What goes up, must come down What must rise, must fall And…
What Goes Up... What goes up must come down What must rise must fall And…
When Standing around for an hour in the rain The porcelain promi…
Winding Me Up Well it was only a game she was mine for…
Wine From The Water You can take me up, you can wind me down There's…
Years of Glory Years Of Glory Beyond the years of glory Will your cards b…
You Can Run I know you're out there 'cause I can feel ya Yeah I…
You Lie Down With Dogs You're such a cool woman but I love you Such a…
You Won't Be There Show me a promised land and I will go anywhere And…
You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned Watch me closely catch my eye If you do I beg…

You're the Voice We have the chance to turn the pages over We can…

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