Alan Parsons Project- Pyramid
“It started trying to be an album based on witchcraft,” Alan Parsons confessed to me about Pyramid, the highlyanticipated third album by the Alan Parsons Project, released in June 1978. “All areas of it, black magic, and the occult. But somehow we focused on the pyramid energy cult which was very fashionable at that time. You know, people were buying plastic pyramids in stores and keeping milk under them,” Parsons chuckled. “So it was led by this ‘pyramid power’ fashion. I had always been fascinated by the pyramids and their history and their mystery, and why the Egyptian and Mayan cultures went to such feats to construct such structures.”
The real-life backstory inspiration for the Alan Parsons Project’s million-seller albums Turn of a Friendly Card, released in November 1980, and even more successful Eye in the Sky in June 1982, is pretty interesting, as well. Due to the hit sales of their 1977 second album I Robot, in order to escape a 93% income tax bracket (!), producer/ engineer Alan Parsons and songwriter Eric Woolfson had found themselves tax exiles from their native England, emigrating to the Mediterranean country of Monaco, with its world-famous casinos.
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