In 1975, he declined Pink Floyd's invitation to work on Wish You Were Here – the follow-up to Dark Side – and instead initiated the Alan Parsons Project with producer, songwriter, and occasional singer Eric Woolfson, whom he had met at Abbey Road. Parsons was nominated for a Grammy Award for both albums. He also mixed the debut album by the American band Ambrosia and produced their second album, Somewhere I've Never Travelled. Parsons also produced three albums by Pilot, a Scottish pop rock band, whose hits included "January" and "Magic". In his work with Al Stewart's " Year of the Cat," Parsons added the saxophone part and transformed the original folk concept into the jazz-influenced ballad that put Stewart onto the charts. "It was a bit of a frustration for me that I didn't get all the engineering credit," Parsons remarked of Dark Side of the Moon, "because Chris came in as mixing supervisor… I had been working on the album for a year and I obviously knew it inside-out by the mixing stage… There were times when I thought Chris was wrong, particularly about the use of limiting and compression on the mix, which I've never been a fan of… Although, later, I got the opportunity to mix the album the way I wanted when I did the quadraphonic version." He became a regular there, engineering such projects as Wings' Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway, five albums by the Hollies and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, for which he received his first Grammy Awards nomination. He was a tape operator during the Beatles' Get Back sessions, and he earned his first credit on the LP Abbey Road.
In October 1967, at the age of 18, Parsons went to work as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road Studios. He has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, with his first win occurring in 2019 for Best Immersive Audio Album for Eye in the Sky (35th Anniversary Edition). Parsons's own group, the Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have also been commercially successful. Parsons was the sound engineer on notable albums, including the Beatles' Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970), Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), and the eponymous debut album by Ambrosia in 1975.
Alan Parsons OBE (born 20 December 1948) is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician and record producer.
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