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FOUND: The alan parsons project - What They Never Told You

We explore the enigma of the Alan Parsons Project on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Phil Collins, Supertramp, Popol Vuh, The Anchoress, Dave Greenslade, Dee Palmer, Phideaux, Sleeping Pulse, Plini, Jarboe, Ian Neal, Prince Of Failure and more...

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“I was obsessed with him at school – it didn’t help with the girls! Because of him I got my first guitar, so he’s got a lot to answer for”: The prog hero who links The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord to Pink Floyd and The Beatles

Soord’s inspiration comes from a man who made his name in the studio before releasing a series of acclaimed concept records in his own right

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“That brief time is the bane of my life. They were everything I was against”: Prog veteran David Paton loved working with Alan Parsons, Kate Bush, Rick Wakeman and Jimmy Page. But there’s one band he hated

The singer, bassist and guitarist explains what it was like to make music with legends – and wonders if he retired too soon

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"It has never ceased to amaze me how much use that one tune gets." The story of Sirius, the dramatic prog anthem played at every World Cup game

The Alan Parsons Project's instrumental Sirius is one of the most famous pieces of music in sport – but its writers don't get the recognition they deserve

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"Highly listenable background music." The Alan Parsons Project bake up the ear candy on Eye In The Sky like punk, NWOBHM and new wave pop rock never happened

Alan Parsons' most commercially successful album bore fruit with the sports anthem Sirius and the hits Eye In The Sky and Old And Wise

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Alan Parsons Project story to be told for first time in official book

Earlybird sign-up for 200-page hardback offers choice of two editions, discount price when pre-order begins, your name in the memoir and fast delivery on publication

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“A forensic foray into an album that changed how many thought about recorded music”: The Alan Parsons Project’s I Robot: Super Deluxe Box Set

Despite a number of previous reissues, 1977 man-versus-machine concept album has never been explored so comprehensively

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New reissue of The Alan Parsons Project's I Robot to be released in October

The Alan Parsons Project's I Robot is to be reissued on CD, vinyl and as a five-disc limited edition Super Deluxe box set

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“The first big gig for Starship was opening for Skynyrd in Florida in front of like 30,000 people. I had all these note-for-note solos, going, ‘God, I hope I nail these!’” Alastair Greene played sideman to rock greats –before he came back to the blues

The guitarist recalls the stress of his no rehearsal debut for Starship, learning lessons from Robin Trower and growing up with Seymour Duncan

Guitar World

“Originally we said, ‘Let’s make an album about witchcraft’… but I supposed pyramid power was a sort of witchcraft, so we zeroed in on that”: When The Alan Parsons Project mixed magic with madness (without visiting Egypt)

Box set edition gives former Beatles and Pink Floyd engineer the chance to recall the crazy times and ambitious attitude that resulted in 1978’s Pyramid

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“Ian broke his wrist. We took him to the hospital and he got a cast put on. And we knew the session was coming up…” Up close with the 1974 Les Paul Custom that Ian Bairnson used to play the solo on Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights – with his arm in a cast

When he tracked Wuthering Heights, Bairnson had a broken wrist, his arm in plaster, but as Pilot bandmate David Paton says, that wouldn't stop a man like him

Guitar World

“There was half a bass note that got chopped. That was my fault. Nobody noticed, though. I think I got away with it!”: Alan Parsons on engineering the side 2 medley on The Beatles’ Abbey Road

“Every day I walked up those famous Abbey Road steps and opened the door felt like I was stepping into a magic kingdom," he tells us. "There really is something very special about that building”

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“Nobody was more surprised than I was when we started doing it, and today it’s my main activity”: Perfect but unplanned timing sent the Alan Parsons Project touring galaxies far, far away with I Robot

When their second album arrived alongside Star Wars in 1977, the dream-come-true coincidence changed their career path

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“It was a contractual obligation album, not a serious release. It’s not as bad as I thought it was going to be!” Alan Parsons is a punk with no regrets – well, not many

Maybe he could have spent his career working with Pink Floyd. Maybe he could have toured more. But he’s proud with his labours in the Alan Parsons Project

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“The Bulls loved it immediately. Michael Jordan loved it”: He appeared on smash hits by Kate Bush and Paul McCartney, but this unsung session guitar hero's most popular solo can be heard in one of the most iconic sports anthems of all time

The late Ian Bairnson spent decades as a first-call session man, but his most famous turn came on the Alan Parsons Project tune Sirius

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Alan Parsons pays moving tribute to "genius" Ian Bairnson

The Alan Parsons Project and Kate Bush guitarist Ian Bairnson has died, aged 69

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Ian Bairnson, guitarist with Pilot and for Kate Bush, dies aged 69

Shetland-born musician, who also played with the Alan Parsons Project, had been living with dementia

Guitar World

Ian Bairnson, guitarist for the Alan Parsons Project and Kate Bush, dies aged 69

The Scottish session player performed the solo on Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights, and collaborated with the likes of Paul McCartney, Sting and Mick Fleetwood

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