1970s rock superstar Alan Parsons has infiltrated the music industry in a number of ways, from working on the Beatles' famed 1969 album Abbey Road and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon to starting his own group the Alan Parsons Project and assembling a number of hit albums and songs. The pop/rock artist ambitiously crafted his music based on the theme at hand, eventually becoming one of the leading musical acts in the U.K. and U.S. in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s.Parsons' gold streak in the music industry began at EMI Studios, where the musical genius worked as a staff engineer. His initial successes came out of his work on Abbey Road and successive work with Paul McCartney. Parsons' work on Dark Side of the Moon shot him into the spotlight and, inspired after working on Al Stewart's album Time Passages, Parsons started working on his own music with songwriter Eric Woolfson. Together, Parsons and Woolfson created the Alan Parsons Project, an outlet for other artists to interpret their music. Alan Parsons Project released its first album Tales of Mystery and Imagination in 1975 as a collection inspired by the great poet Edgar Allan Poe. Continuing down this path, the Project released 1977's I Robot with Isaac Asimov's science fiction in mind. Alan Parsons' first Top 20 song was the title track from the 1982 album Eye in the Sky, peaking at the number three spot.Parsons continued to release several albums throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s, including the ever-popular the Turn of a Friendly Card in 1981, Vulture Culture in 1985, Stereotomy in 1986 as well as 1987's Gaudi. While the ‘90s may have been a less-than-stellar period for Parsons, he turned it around in the 2000s, coming back from a five-year hiatus after 1999 to release A Valid Path in 2004.
