The Alan Parsons Project (APP) was an English symphonic/art-pop band led by the production/multi-instrumental team of Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson. The project began with the album Tales of Mystery and Imagination on 20th Century in 1976, followed by nine albums on Arista between 1977 and 1987. Their catalogue includes concept albums like I Robot, […]
Chris Rainbow (November 18, 1946 — February 25, 2015) was a Scottish art-pop musician, singer, and songwriter from Glasgow who released the 1975–78 Polydor albums Home of the Brave and Looking Over My Shoulder, followed by the 1979 EMI release White Trails. As a vocalist, he sang select songs for the Alan Parsons Project and […]
What did each of these albums bring to the table in rock’s transformation from Beat through psychedelia and the subsequent emergence of suite-driven symphonic progressive (Genesis, ELP, Yes) and orchestral pop (ELO, Alan Parsons Project, Klaatu). The period from 1966 to 1968 was a pivotal moment in rock history, as the “Beat” era of three-minute […]
