{"id":1546,"count":1,"description":"British Rock studio project initially formed to record a concept album about Edgar Allan Poe. They became best known for the power ballad \"Eye in the Sky\" and the instrumental \"Sirius\".\r\n\r\n<strong>Official band members<\/strong>\r\n\u25cf Alan Parsons \u2013 production, engineering, programming, composition, keyboards, guitar\r\n\u25cf Eric Woolfson \u2013 composition, lyrics, piano, keyboards, vocals, executive production\r\n\r\n<strong>Notable contributors<\/strong>\r\n\u25cf Andrew Powell \u2013 composition, keyboards, orchestral arrangements (1975-1990)\r\n\u25cf Philharmonia Orchestra\r\n\u25cf The English Chorale \u2013 choir (1976, 1977, 1982, 1987)\r\n\u25cf Ian Bairnson \u2013 guitar (1975\u20131990)\r\n\u25cf David Pack \u2013 guitar (1976)\r\n\u25cf David Paton \u2013 bass, vocals (1975\u20131985)\r\n\u25cf Duncan Mackay \u2013 keyboards (1977\u20131979)\r\n\u25cf Richard Cottle \u2013 keyboards, saxophone (1984\u20131990)\r\n\u25cf Laurence Cottle \u2013 bass (1987-1990)\r\n\u25cf Stuart Tosh \u2013 drums, percussion (1975\u20131976)\r\n\u25cf Stuart Elliott \u2013 drums, percussion (1977\u20131990)\r\n\u25cf John Leach \u2013 cimbalom, kantele (1976\u20131978)\r\n\u25cf Colin Blunstone \u2013 vocals (1978\u20131984)\r\n\u25cf Chris Rainbow \u2013 vocals (1979\u20131990)\r\n\u25cf Lenny Zakatek \u2013 vocals (1977\u20131987)\r\n\u25cf John Miles \u2013 vocals (1976, 1978, 1985, 1987)\r\n\u25cf Jack Harris \u2013 vocals (1976\u20131978)\r\n\u25cf Dave Townsend \u2013 vocals (1977, 1979)\r\n\u25cf Elmer Gantry a.k.a. Dave Terry (4) \u2013 vocals (1980, 1982)\r\n\u25cf Graham Dye \u2013 vocals (1985, 1990)\r\n\r\nNon-recurring vocalists include: Arthur Brown (1975), Allan Clarke (1977), Peter Straker (1977), Jaki Whitren (1977), Dean Ford (1978), Clare Torry (1979), Lesley Duncan (1979), Gary Brooker (1985), Geoff Barradale (1987), Eric Stewart (1990)\r\n\r\nNotable instruments: Projectron - A device built by Alan Parsons as an analog sample playback device, similar in general concept to a Mellotron. The Projectron consisted of a 24-track tape machine, with each playback channel routed to a voltage controlled amplifier; each VCA was in turn gated by a key of an attached keyboard. The device was used on the albums I Robot, Pyramid, and The Turn of a Friendly Card. But preparing tapes was a cumbersome process and the device was maintenance-intensive, so as soon as a Fairlight CMI became available to Parsons, he switched his sampling activities to that. Parsons scrapped the Projectron sometime after 1980, and no photos of it are known to have survived.","link":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/artista\/the-alan-parsons-project\/","name":"The Alan Parsons Project","slug":"the-alan-parsons-project","taxonomy":"artista","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/artista"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?artista=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}