Alan Parsons, poses with his medal after being appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
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famous english composer Alan Parsons is arriving today December 20, 2022 at 74 years of age.
Born in the year 1948, Parsons also has a degree in sound engineering, is a musician and singer.
He has participated in the production of some of the most significant records in the history of music, such as Abbey Road and Let it Be, by The Beatles.
Also The Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd. His popularity came between the 70s and 90s, this with the idea of The Alan Parsons Project, which he executed together with Eric Woolfson.
In his career he has received up to 13 Grammy Award nominations, becoming winner of one of them.
a bit of his life
Since he was little he showed, not only great taste, but also a born talent for music. This same passion of hers made her want to study it, before that, she carried out her studies in recording engineering at EMI.
He participated as a recording assistant on the Beatles’ album Abbey Road in 1969, and also on the group’s last albumb
After the separation of The Beatles, Parsons continued to work with Paul McCartney, being the sound engineer on recordings for the Wings. During those years he also worked with Theh Hollies on some songs like “He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother”.
In solitary
Regarding his solo career, in the 90s Parsons released his first album, “Try Anything Once”, and the concept was not to have just a concept.
Although he was working alone, Parsons was surrounded much of the same team that worked with the Project, such as musicians Ian Bairnson, Andrew Powell, among others.
In 1996 the album On Air was released, which was dedicated to aeronautical exploration, and in 1999 The Time Machine came out, inspired by the HH Wells novel of the same name.
In 2013 a single “Fragile” was released on the market and at the time he declared that if he wanted to be successful, he would publish a new studio album.
In April 2019 he released his studio album “The Secret”chose as the publication date a video of one of the songs included “As Lighhts Fall”.
But this year his new and last studio album came out, “From the new world”.
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