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Project along with songwriter/manager Eric Woolfson, with the idea of creating albums that revolved around a single theme. Although he occasionally played keyboards, guitar and sang background parts on his records, the Project was designed primarily a forum for an ever-changing group of vocalists and session players - among them Arthur Brown, ex-Zombie Colin Blunstone, Cockney Rebel's Steve Harley, the Hollies' Allan Clarke and guitarist Ian Bairnson -- to interpret and perform Parsons and Woolfson's conceptually-linked, gorgeously arranged and orchestrated music. The Project debuted in 1976 with Tales of Mystery and Imagination, a collection inspired by the work of Edgar Allen Poe. Similarly, the science fiction of Isaac Asimov served as the building blocks for 1977's follow-up I Robot. After the further success of Pyramid in 1978, Parsons moved to Monaco - an event that clearly influenced The Turn of a Friendly Card, a meditation on gambling, recorded in Paris in 1980. The Alan Parsons Project scored two Top 20 hits from this album, Games People Play and Time. Having resettled back home in England, 1982's Eye in the Sky, was their most successful effort to date, and notched a Top Three hit with its title track. More successes followed - Ammonia Avenue (1984), Vulture Culture (1985), Stereotomy (1986) and Gaudi (1987), making the Alan Parsons Project a top draw.



Woolfson and Alan Parsons went their separate ways in the early 90s, but Parsons continued to lead the Project on concert tours throughout the world. One of the most familiar Project tracks was Sirius, perhaps best known as the Chicago Bulls theme and featured at countless NBA games. In 2000, Sirius was featured in an IMAX documentary movie about Michael Jordan. More recently, Parsons has taken his music in the direction of electronica, recording an album, A Valid Path, with some of the genres most notable performers. He has toured to support the album with a full symphony orchestra and a laser light show, giving fans the technological wizardry and the musical grace the Project had become known for.