For me, as soon as it starts playing it evokes a kind of all-conquering feel (conquering even death?). For my favourite album I waiver between I Robot and Eye in the Sky - great cover artwork for both! The track, Genesis, from I Robot is a fantastic instrumental piece - it would be a good electronic choice for a positive funeral song, there is something eternal about it. With the following albums, they kept the idealistic bent but, leaving the epic prog rock structure, went for stronger, conventionally formed songs. Being the first album, it is the most 'prog rock' album of all of them, with sounds forming a grand epic storyline - War of the Worlds kind of thing, moral tales, the B side is a five-part 15 minute long creation. My brother's favourite album was the first, Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination. The vocalist would change from year to year, so, unusually for a band, the group didn't centrally gravitate toward the vocalist's fame.

They produced a few great, very moving, idealistic albums between them. However, Woolfson wrote the songs - and there are stunning songs written on their albums. Maybe one had a bigger ego than the other?) Parsons was the sound engineer / producer, so with his input the albums were exemplary in terms of sound production. (Did he do most of the work? I'd guess it was an equal amount of work in terms of time.

Why the band take on Alan's name I don't know. The Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson partnership under the Alan Parsons Project certainly deserves some words. Non-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)

John Leach – cimbalom, kantele (1976–1978).

Stuart Elliott – drums, percussion (1977–1990).

Stuart Tosh – drums, percussion (1975–1976).

Richard Cottle – keyboards, saxophone (1984–1990).

Andrew Powell – composition, keyboards, orchestral arrangements (1975-1990).

Eric Woolfson – composition, lyrics, piano, keyboards, vocals, executive production.

Alan Parsons – production, engineering, programming, composition, keyboards, guitar.

They became best known for the power ballad 'Eye in the Sky' and the instrumental 'Sirius'. British Rock studio project initially formed to record a concept album about Edgar Allan Poe.

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