Alan Parsons Project

British pop-rock group of the late 1970s-early 1980s, founded by Alan Parsons and [Eric Woolfson]?.
Most of their titles, especially the early work, share common traits (probably influenced by Pink Floyd's [Dark Side of the Moon]?, on which Alan was the sound engineer in 1973): they were concept albums, started with an instrumental introduction fading in to the first song, had an instrumental piece in the middle of the second LP? side, and concluded with a quiet/sad/powerful song.

• 1975 Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Edgar Allan Poe - based on stories by the writer Edgar Allan Poe. The later reissue on CD disk had an added spoken introduction by Orson Welles.
• 1976 I Robot - based on Isaac Asimov's work,
• 1978 Pyramid - about pyramids and Ancient Egypt,
• 1979 Eve - about women,
• 1979 The Turn of a Friendly Card - about Gambling,
• 1981 Eye in the Sky - about Life and the Universe, it contains their most famous song, Eye in the Sky,
• 1983 Ammonia Avenue,
• 1984 Vulture Culture,
• 1985 Gaudi - about architect Antonio Gaudi and his most famous work La Sagrada Familia,
• 1985 Stereotomy,

After those albums, Alan released other titles under his name, while Eric? made a last concept album named Freudiana (about Sigmund Freud's work on psychology).

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GS, 5 Aug 2001: comments above are my personal observation, please check if true.

Not exactly a group, at least on the first album; more like Alan making the albums he wanted, using well known artists as session musicians...