Alan Parsons (London, England, December 20, 1948) is a British sound engineer, music producer, composer, singer and musician. He participated in the production of significant records in the history of music such as "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be" by The Beatles or "The Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd.

Between the mid-1970s and 1990s, with the creation of "The Alan Parsons Project" with Eric Woolfson, he achieved great popularity and commercial success. He has been nominated 13 times, and won an award, at different Grammy Awards ceremonies.

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.

Its 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).

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.

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