If Days are Numbers, then Today is No. 75 for Alan Parsons
From the Dark Side of the Moon to the Eye in the Sky and beyond, Alan Parsons’ life thus far has been a sonic and celestial voyage.
And if, as he says, days are numbers, then today is No. 75 for the traveler who is the subject of this blog post.
Born Dec. 20, 1948, Parsons started big, engineering the Beatles’ Abbey Road and Let it Be LPs - he appears briefly in 2021’s “the Beatles: Get Back” - before handling the same task for Pink Floyd and Dark Side.
From there, Parsons and Eric Woolfson formed the Alan Parsons Project, a studio-only, revolving cast of singers and players who issued 11 albums between 1975 and 1990.
Parsons then launched a solo career and has subsequently taken his eponymous band on the road as the Alan Parsons Live Project.
There’s really nobody quite like Parsons in the musical universe. But any number of folks in the field would probably want to be like him.
Some of those folks - including friends and colleagues Michael McDonald, Al Stewart, the Hollies’ Terry Sylvester, Wings’ Laurence Juber and Ambrosia’s David Pack, all of whom he’s worked with in some other place, somewhere, some other time - are joining Parsons tonight for a 75th-birthday concert benefitting One805 and the First Responders of Santa Barbara County, Calif.
It’s the game these people play.
12/20/23
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Así es como me doy una idea de lo que dicen los clilppings Japoneses jajaja 😂
fuente: EMI Toshiba records Japan.
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I know the hollies had to give terry bacon bits periodically to keep him calm throughout the day
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The Hollies
Out on the Road
1973 Ariola
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Tracks:
01. Out on the Road
02. A Better Place
03. They Don't Realise I'm Down
04. The Last Wind
05. Mr. Heartbreaker
06. I Was Born a Man
07. Slow Down - Go Down
08. Don't Leave the Child Alone
09. Nearer to You
10. Pick up the Pieces
11. Trans-Atlantic West Bound Jet
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Bernie Calvert
Bobby Elliott
Tony Hicks
Mikael Rickfors
Terry Sylvester
* Long Live Rock Archive
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The comebacks that are not really the comebacks sound like an odd category of discs. However, we can call something like Hollies by, ha, The Hollies with this. You see, Allan Clarke returned as a singer, though I don't think the event had much effect on the band. Sure, they did some fine tunes, but they mostly followed the path that put them on the nostalgia circuit market. Then again, I must admit they still tried during the 70's and Hollies might contain a couple of gems that should be heard more often than the major single from the LP. However, they should've reinvented themselves more, though how easy is that? I'm not surprised they ended up the way they did, but they did fight against such a career in the 70's.
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it CAN'T just be me who's thinking it
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limit is 10 so gleeple you must answer & reblog to put in the tags what plot or storyline should be on this list!!! i want to read about the pure chaos cringe shenanigans of our beloved show!
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I seriously can't stop listening to this
3:28-4:38 has to be the best ending to a song ever, Bernie really out did himself
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