Alan Parsons Project- Tales of Mystery and Imagination @50

In Spring 1976 when Tales of Mystery and Imagination was released by the unknown Alan Parsons Project, just working behind the scenes as a recording engineer with such world-changers as the Beatles   and progressive rock titans Pink Floyd   could actually land you a recording contract yourself. “Basically he signed a blank tape,” Alan Parsons chuckles in my classic rock interview, recalling  20th Century Records President Russ Regan green-lighting a concept album based on the books of Edgar Alan Poe, composed by the young Abbey Road studio hound Parsons and songwriter the late Eric Woolfson as The Alan Parsons Project.

Alan Parsons is my honored guest In the Studio on the golden anniversary of his debut as a recording artist unto himself, Tales of Mystery and Imagination. -Redbeard