As an engineer/producer, Parsons had worked with Paul McCartney’s basso nova, David Gilmour’s ghostly falsetto and Joe Puerta’s jazz fused timbre, so variety was key. It worked for the album and proved a tradition that Parsons intended to keep on the subsequent albums. In the time honoured tradition, the songs sounded vast, cascading strings catching the arrogance, adulation and aspiration that a reader finds in Poe’s crepuscular words. Zeffirelli protégé Leonard Whiting sang the cavernous The Raven, before vacating the microphone for blues savants John Miles and Arthur Brown. Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edgar Allan Poe), the first of The Alan Parsons Project albums, showcased a panoply of voices. That was around 1975 when we put together a conceptual album based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe”. Very soon after that we became a song-writing team. He became my manager at a time when I was a producer. I met him around Abbey Road where I was working. He did some writing for the likes of Chris Farlowe and the original 10cc, I believe. His main occupation, really, was a songwriter. “He wasn’t incredibly successful at it, to be honest. “Eric Woolfson was another producer” Alan Parsons recalls. In March, Esoteric Recordings release a new re-mastered limited edition deluxe expanded boxed set of the classic album, also available as a Blu-Ray edition. “I don’t think we had a particular influence, but we established an identity in our sound… I don’t know what people hear, but they say they recognise an Alan Parsons Project song when they hear it!” – Alan Parsonsįirst released in February 1984, Ammonia Avenue was the seventh album by The Alan Parsons Project, the brainchild of composer, musician and manger Eric Woolfson and celebrated producer and engineer Alan Parsons. ❉ We chat with the prog rock legend about 1984 album ‘Ammonia Avenue’ and late collaborator Eric Woolfson.
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