Biography
Music Alan Parsons in the USSR even heard people who did not favor a rock. The Mammagamma composition from the Album "Eye In The Sky" served as a background in the TV program "Traveler Club". The Soviet Studio "Melody" released 2 Collections of the group "The Alan Parsons Project".Childhood and youth
The future musician was born at the end of 1948 in the London Creative Family. The father played on the flute and piano, and Alan was still in childhood learned to musitize on these instruments, and in adolescence he mastered the game on the guitar.
At 19, the young man took the engineer's assistant to the Abbey Road Studio, and he managed to take part in the recording of the latest Albums The Beatles. Then Alan led the sound mixing on the "Hollies" records and McCartney, the work with which recalls as a useful, but hard experience, since Sir Paul, having heard the result, said: "Make it better!", But did not point exactly which moments it is required to correct. The world recognition of the sound operator deserved the arrangement of the Album "Dark Side of The Moon" Pink Floyd groups. In the photo of the mid-70s Parsons appears with its characteristic beard.
Music
At 26, Alan created the "The Alan Parsons Project" studio project, but for the first time on stage the musician was released only in 19 years. Now Parsons regrets that he did not begin to concert in the mid-80s. From 1976 to 1987, 30 musicians took place through cooperation with the project.The creation of melodies was usually inspired by biographies and creativity of great people - Edgar Allan By, Sigmund Freud, Antonio Gaudi, or an appeal to other epochs. Parsons said that the musician turns into a jewel everything, which will touch, and in 1979 the composition of the project occupied 4 places in the hit parades - the achievement, which was forces only forces only "Beatles".
From his heritage Alan, the albums "TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION" and "THE TURN OF A FRIENDLY CARD" also appreciate, and the collection of 2004 "A Valid Path" refers critically, considering it unjustified reneranous in the direction of electronic music to the detriment of melodiousness. However, the album unloved by Parsons gave impetus to cooperation with "Lichtmond" and the creation of the "Precious Life" composition, which was removed by a very beautiful clip.
Personal life
Personal life Alan is measured and calm. The musician lives with the second wife Lisa in California, in the town, whose name has become synonymous with a long family series. The overall passion of Parsons is pets: cats, dogs and guinea pigs, both purebred and taken from shelters.
Each spouse has children from the first marriage. Alan has these sons of Daniel and Jeremy, and Lisa - Britney's daughters and Tobita. The family is not separated and on tour: the musician's wife organizes the tours of the group, and Jeremy performs the functions of the sound operator.
Parsons devoted to the wife of the song "AS Lights Fall". In an interview, Alan said that, thanks to his wife, who read during the creation of the Arctica composition, a book about the Tungusian meteorite, Hit got the name "Return to Tunguska".
Alan Parsons now
In 2019, Alan's discography was replenished first after a 15-year interruption of the studio album "The Secret". In June 2019, a 70-year-old Master of Music and his group gave a concert in Moscow, whose atmosphere, according to the experts, resembled the Musical Staging rather than the performance of rock musicians. The public was preferably sitting in chairs, and to the scene approached only before the show finals.For the execution of the new composition "I CAN't GET TheRe From Here", the singer Jordan Huffman joined the team, which Alan presented as a future son-in-law. The song "Miracle" performed a vocalist Jason Mraz popular in the West. Instrumental hits were represented only by the compositions "Eye in the Sky" and "Sirius".
In the Russian capital, Parsons arrived after the tour in Israel. Unlike the Pink Floyd colleague, Roger Waters, stepping for the boycott of the Jewish state, Alan believes that art should be out of politics.
Discography
- 1976 - "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"
- 1977 - "I Robot"
- 1978 - "Pyramid"
- 1979 - "EVE"
- 1980 - "The Turn Of A Friendly Card"
- 1982 - "Eye in the Sky"
- 1984 - AMMONIAL AVENUE
- 1984 - "Vulture Culture"
- 1986 - "Stereotomy"
- 1987 - "Gaudi"
- 1993 - "Try Anything Once"
- 1996 - "On Air"
- 1999 - "The Time Machine"
- 2004 - "A Valid Path"
- 2010 - "Eye 2 Eye: Live in Madrid"
- 2013 - "LiveSpain"
- 2014 - "The Sicilian Defence"
- 2016 - "ALAN PARSONS SYMPHONIC PROJECT, LIVE IN COLOMBIA"
- 2019 - "The Secret"