亚伦派森1948—

亚伦出生于英国伦敦。

主要作品

• 作为亚伦派森工作室
• Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976)
• I Robot (1977)
• Pyramid (1978)
• Eve (1979)
• The Turn of a Friendly Card (1980)
• Eye in the Sky (1982)
• Ammonia Avenue (1984)
• Vulture Culture (1984)
• Stereotomy (1985)
• Gaudi (1987)
• 作为单独作者
• Try Anything Once (1993)
• On Air (1996)
• The Time Machine (1999)
• A Valid Path (2004)

Alan Parsons (born 20 December 1948) is an English audio engineer, singer, songwriter, musician 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).

Music career

After getting a job working in the tape duplication department at EMI, Parsons heard the master tape for the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and decided to try talking his way into a job at Abbey Road Studios. In October 1967, at the age of 18, Parsons went to work as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road. He was a tape operator during the Beatles' Get Back sessions, and he earned his first credit on the LP Abbey Road. He became a regular there, engineering projects such as Wings' Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway, five albums by the Hollies and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), for which he received his first Grammy Awards nomination.

Band members

• Current
• Alan Parsons – guitar, vocals, keyboards, percussion (1993–present)
• P. J. Olsson – lead vocals (2004–present)
• Guy Erez – bass (2010–present)
• Todd Cooper – vocals, saxophone (2010–present)
• Danny Thompson - drums (2010-present)
• Tom Brooks – keyboards, backing vocals (2012–present)
• Dan Tracey – guitar, vocals (2016–present)
• Jeff Kollman – lead guitar, vocals (2017–present)
• Former
• Ian Bairnson – lead guitar, saxophone (1993–2000; died 2023)
• Stuart Elliott – drums (1993–2000)
• Richard Cottle – keyboards, saxophone (1994–1995)
• Gary Howard – vocals, guitar (1994)
• Chris Thompson – vocals, guitar, percussion (1994–1995)
• Andrew Powell – keyboards (1994–1995)
• Jeremy Meek – bass, vocals (1994)
• Peter Beckett – vocals, keyboards (1995–1998)
• Felix Krish – bass (1995)
• John Giblin – bass (1996–1998; died 2023)
• Gary Sanctuary – keyboards (1996)
• Neil Lockwood – vocals, guitar (1996–2000; died 2025)

Family and personal life

His father was Denys Parsons, the grandson of the actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Denys Parsons was a scientist, a filmmaker, and the press officer for the British Library, as well as a talented pianist and flautist. He developed the Parsons Code as a means of classifying musical melody and was the author of The Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes (1975, revised 2008).

Parsons resides in Santa Barbara, California, US. He has two sons from his first marriage. He is married to Lisa Griffiths; they have two daughters.

Discography

Billboard Top 40 hit singles (US)

• 1976 – "(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" – No. 37
• 1977 – "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" – No. 36
• 1979 – "Damned If I Do" – No. 27
• 1980 – "Games People Play" – No. 16
• 1981 – "Time" – No. 15
• 1982 – "Eye in the Sky" – No. 3
• 1984 – "Don't Answer Me" – No. 15
• 1984 – "Prime Time" – No. 34

Canadian singles

• 1976 – "(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" – No. 62
• 1977 – "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" – No. 22
• 1980 – "Damned If I Do" – No. 16
• 1981 – "Games People Play" – No. 9
• 1981 – "Time" – No. 30
• 1982 – "Eye in the Sky" – No. 1
• 1983 – "You Don't Believe" – No. 43
• 1984 – "Don't Answer Me" – No. 20
• 1985 – "Let's Talk About Me" – No. 89

Honours and awards

Parsons was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to music and music production.

Nominations

1973 – Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon – Grammy Nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

1975 – Ambrosia – Ambrosia – Grammy Nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

1976 – Ambrosia – Somewhere I've Never Travelled – Grammy Nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

1976 – The Alan Parsons Project – Tales of Mystery and Imagination – Grammy Nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

1978 – The Alan Parsons Project – Pyramid – Grammy Nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

1978 – Alan Parsons – Producer of the Year, Grammy Nomination for Producer of the Year

1979 – Ice Castles – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Grammy Nomination for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture