Happy birthday, Alan Parsons!

Alan Parsons, born December 20, 1948 in London, England, is the mind behind The Alan Parsons Project and engineer extraordinare behind The Beatles' Abbey Road and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

It is his partnership with Eric Woolfson, better known as The Alan Parsons Project, that I enjoy most.  Got all their albums!  Parsons has been nominated for a Grammy 11 times, two times each in 1976 and 1979. 

This month is the 33rd anniversary of Vulture Culture's release in 1984.  The first Alan Parsons Project tune I remember hearing on the radio was Damned if I Do, Damned if I Don't from Eve.  Several years later, I heard Time from Turn of a Friendly Card.  We all remember that one!

The Alan Parsons Project releases "Vulture Culture" 1984

The Alan Parsons Project released their eighth studio album, Vulture Culture, December 1984.  It's one of my favorites, but I say that about all of their albums. It wasn't a huge success in the U.S. but it was very successful in Europe, where it reached #1 in Germany and #2 in Switzerland and the Netherlands.  The title song and the instrumental Hawkeye are my favorite tracks from the album.

Gotta love those 80's videos!