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Tonight, I will be featuring The Alan Parsons project.

The music industry suffered a terrible loss with the death of Eric Woolfson in December 2009.
From Wkipedia:
Eric Norman Woolfson (18 March 1945 – 2 December 2009[1]) was a Scottish lead singer, songwriter and lyricist, executive producer, pianist, and co-founder of The Alan Parsons Project. He wrote 2 songs that hit the British Singles Chart, with these songs spending a total of 4 weeks on the chart.

After splitting up with Alan Parsons during the recording of Freudiana, Woolfson pursued musical theatre. His works have mainly been performed in Germany and Austria, but have also been heard in Korea and Japan.

n 1975, Woolfson joined forces with record producer Alan Parsons who was a recording engineer on many Beatles and Paul McCartney albums as well as having engineered Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon.

Eric and Alan formed a new kind of collaboration that would allow Parsons’ engineering skills to be used to the fullest extent while allowing Woolfson to exploit his talents as a songwriter and lyricist. The Alan Parsons Project was born, the name originally being intended as a working title for their collaborative project. From 1976 to 1987, Woolfson and Parsons collaborated on the conception and lyrics for all ten albums by The Alan Parsons Project, which have achieved worldwide sales in excess of 40 million.

On every Project album, Woolfson would sing a guide vocal track for each song, which the album’s eventual lead vocalists would use as a reference. Some of these tracks can be heard on the new remastered editions of various Project albums released in 2007. Woolfson himself was the actual singer on many of the Project’s biggest hits, such as “Time”, “Don’t Answer Me”, “Prime Time” and the band’s signature tune “Eye in the Sky”, which spent several weeks in the Top 3 of Billboard’s Hot 100 in 1982.

Woolfson died in London, of cancer on Dec, 2009.


134 posted on 05/14/2010 7:07:29 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: 2LT Radix jr; 80 Square Miles; acad1228; AirForceMom; AliVeritas; aomagrat; ariamne; ...

~~Tunes For The Troops~~


Alan Parsons Project~I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You

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146 posted on 05/14/2010 7:10:53 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN
The Alan Parsons project

Well Done Ms B~!

230 posted on 05/14/2010 8:00:48 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
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Well, I just found this. God rest the soul of Eric Woolfson.
Alan Parsons Project is/was a wonderful group!


270 posted on 05/14/2010 8:26:59 PM PDT by luvie (DIMs?......start packin'--you're fired!)
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