He managed Parsons' career as a producer and engineer through a string of successes, including Pilot, Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel, John Miles, Al Stewart, Ambrosia, and the Hollies. This was the start of their longstanding friendly business relationship. Woolfson's idea was to manage Alan and help his already successful production career. Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist while composing material for a concept album based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Parsons acted as Assistant Engineer on the Beatles' albums Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970), engineered Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), and produced several acts for EMI Records.
1.2 1977–1990: Mainstream success and final releasesĬareer 1974–1976: Formation and debut Īlan Parsons met Eric Woolfson in the canteen of Abbey Road Studios in the summer of 1974. Among the group's most popular songs are " I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You", " Games People Play", " Time", " Sirius"/" Eye in the Sky" and " Don't Answer Me". Many of their albums are conceptual in nature and focus on science fiction, supernatural, literary and sociological themes. The Alan Parsons Project released eleven studio albums in its 15-year career, the most successful being I Robot (1977) and Eye in the Sky (1982). Parsons and Woolfson shared writing credits on almost all of the Project's songs, with Parsons producing or co-producing all of the band's recordings. They were accompanied by varying session musicians and some relatively consistent session players such as guitarist Ian Bairnson, arranger Andrew Powell, bassist and vocalist David Paton, drummer Stuart Elliott, and vocalists Lenny Zakatek and Chris Rainbow. The Alan Parsons Project was a British rock band active between 19, whose core membership consisted of producer, audio engineer, musician and composer Alan Parsons and singer, songwriter and pianist Eric Woolfson.
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