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Alan Parsons
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Alan Parsons is a British male composer, record producer, songwriter, and singer. Born on December 20, 1948, in Willesden, he began his professional work period in 1967. His musical output spans pop rock, progressive rock, art rock, and soft rock. Parsons is a member of The Alan Parsons Project and has been associated with the record label EMI. He performs on the electronic keyboard and guitar.
His career includes involvement in The Beatles' rooftop concert. Parsons has also authored works such as *Art and Science of Sound Recording* and *Cambridge International AS and a Level Art and Design Student's Book*. He is a citizen of the United Kingdom and speaks English.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 12
Top works
- Cambridge International AS and a Level Art and Design Student's Book
- Revise BTEC National Art and Design Revision Guide : (with Free Online Edition)
- Cambridge International AS and a Level Art and Design Student's EBook
- Art and Science of Sound Recording
- Alan Parsons' Art & Science of Sound Recording
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Film & TV
Acting · London, UK
Alan Parsons is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He was involved with the production of several significant albums, including the Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be, and the eponymous debut album by Ambrosia, as well as Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. Parsons' own group, The Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have also been…
Known for
- The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid (Collection)2025
- Alan Parsons - One Note Symphony, Live in Tel Aviv — Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Ukulele, Keyboards2022
- Alan Parsons - The Neverending Show Live in the Netherlands — Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards2021
- The Beatles: Get Back — Self2021
- The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue2020
- Alan Parsons: The Secret — Producer, Engineer2019
- Alan Parsons Symphonic Project - Live In Colombia — Self - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Liner Notes, Producer2016
- Rock N' Roll Stories — Self2013
- Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis — Self2011
- Alan Parsons: Eye 2 Eye - Live In Madrid — Himself2010
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Santa Barbara
- Active from
- 1948
Discography
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 104,032
- Total plays
- 1,429,975
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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 <a href="https://
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
· 2013 · cited 34,830x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,233x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,903x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,622x
- DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs
· 2018 · cited 18,284x
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Quotes
- “Time, flowing like a river Time, beckoning me Who knows when we shall meet again If ever But time Keeps flowing like a river To the sea”
- “While the children laughed I was always afraid Of the smile of the clown So I close my eyes Till I can't see the light And I hide from the sound We're two of a kind Silence and I We need a chance to talk things over Two of a kind Silence and I”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1948-12-20 ) 20 December 1948 (age 77) , Willesden , Middlesex , England
- Genres
- Rock progressive rock
- Occupations
- Audio engineer composer musician record producer director
- Instruments
- Guitar keyboards bass vocals flute
- Years active
- 1967–present
- Labels
- Legacy Arista Fox Mercury Frontiers
- Formerly of
- The Alan Parsons Project
- Spouse
- Lisa Parsons
- Website
- alanparsons .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alan
- Family name
- Parsons
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Willesden
- Occupation
- record producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- progressive rock
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- EMI
- Official website
- www.the-alan-parsons-project.com
- Image
- Alan Parsons 2017-05-19 ap0033cwo.jpg
- Significant event
- The Beatles' rooftop concert
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- date of birth
- 1948-12-20
- Commons category
- Alan Parsons
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
- different from
- Alan Parsons
- social media followers
- 44800
- member of
- The Alan Parsons Project
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Sources (3)
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Alan Parsons, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Alan Parsons OBE (born 20 December 1948) is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician, singer and record producer.
Parsons was the sound engineer on albums including the Beatles' Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970), Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon (1973), and the eponymous debut album by Ambrosia in 1975. Parsons's own group, The Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have also been commercially successful. He has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, with his first win occurring in 2019 for Best Immersive Audio Album for Eye in the Sky (35th Anniversary Edition).
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