The only live performance where the band was introduced as "The Alan Parsons Project" was at Night of the Proms 1990 (at the time of the group's break-up), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar. In the 1990s things changed with the technology of digital samplers. This was because Woolfson and Parsons saw themselves mainly in the roles of writing and production, and also because of the technical difficulties of reproducing on stage the complex instrumentation used in the studio. The Project never played live during its career. The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one (although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order). They were concept albums, and typically began with an instrumental introduction which faded into the first song, often had an instrumental piece in the middle of the second LP side, and concluded with a quiet, melancholic, or powerful song. Most of the Project's titles, especially the early work, share common traits (likely influenced by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, on which Parsons was the audio engineer in 1973). Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Parsons had already acted as assistant engineer on The Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be, had recently engineered Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, and had produced several acts for EMI Records. Almost all songs on Project's albums are credited to "Woolfson/Parsons".Įnglishman Alan Parsons met Scotsman Eric Woolfson in the canteen of Abbey Road Studios in the summer of 1974. Parsons was a successful producer and accomplished engineer. Woolfson was a lawyer by profession, but also a composer and pianist. The Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock band, active between 19,consisting of Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.Behind the revolving lineup and the regular sidemen, the true core of the Project was the duo of Parsons and Woolfson.
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