Alan Parsons

producer, engineer, synthesizer, performer, keyboard, vocal, remixer, balance, other instruments, programming, acoustic guitar, pipe organ, flute, drum machine, vocoder, guitar, recorder, bass, instrument arranger, strings, electronic instruments

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Top collaborators

Artist name Roles Recordings
The Alan Parsons Project
Pink Floyd
Pilot (70s Scottish band)
Ian Bairnson producer, vocal, bass, guitar, pedal steel guitar, synthesizer Back Against the Wall, Breakaway, Don't Answer Me, Eye in the Sky, Jigue, Limelight, Luciferama, Mr. Time, Old and Wise, Prime Time, Psychobabble, Re-Jigue, Siren Song, Sirius, Standing on Higher Ground, The Raven, The Three of Me, Time, Turn It Up, Wine from the Water, You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned
Jack Ferrier

Collaborators on this artist's recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Ian Bairnson producer, vocal, bass, guitar, pedal steel guitar, synthesizer Back Against the Wall, Breakaway, Don't Answer Me, Eye in the Sky, Jigue, Limelight, Luciferama, Mr. Time, Old and Wise, Prime Time, Psychobabble, Re-Jigue, Siren Song, Sirius, Standing on Higher Ground, The Raven, The Three of Me, Time, Turn It Up, Wine from the Water, You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned
Stuart Elliott (Session drummer) vocal, drums, keyboard, percussion, synthesizer Back Against the Wall, Breakaway, Jigue, Mr. Time, No Future in the Past, Oh Life (There Must Be More), Out of the Blue, Re-Jigue, Siren Song, Take the Money and Run, The Three of Me, Turn It Up, Wine from the Water
Gary Bradshaw recording Don't Answer Me, Eye in the Sky, Limelight, Luciferama, Old and Wise, Prime Time, Psychobabble, Sirius, Standing on Higher Ground, The Raven, Time, You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned
Jeremy Meek vocal, bass Don't Answer Me, Eye in the Sky, Limelight, Luciferama, Old and Wise, Prime Time, Psychobabble, Sirius, Standing on Higher Ground, The Raven, Time, You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned
Bill Irving recording Don't Answer Me, Eye in the Sky, Limelight, Luciferama, Old and Wise, Prime Time, Psychobabble, Sirius, Standing on Higher Ground, The Raven, Time, You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned
Richard Cottle keyboard, saxophone, synthesizer Back Against the Wall, Breakaway, Far Ago and Long Away, Jigue, Mr. Time, Siren Song, The Three of Me, The Time Machine, Part 1, Turn It Up, Wine from the Water
Rupert Coulson engineer Back Against the Wall, Breakaway, Jigue, Mr. Time, Oh Life (There Must Be More), Re-Jigue, Siren Song, The Three of Me, Turn It Up, Wine from the Water
Andy Strange engineer Back Against the Wall, Breakaway, Jigue, Mr. Time, Oh Life (There Must Be More), Re-Jigue, Siren Song, The Three of Me, Turn It Up, Wine from the Water
Andrew Powell (known for contributions to Alan Parsons Project) conductor, instrument arranger, autoharp, bass, bass guitar, piano, strings, synthesizer Breakaway, Jigue, Mr. Time, Oh Life (There Must Be More), Re-Jigue, The Three of Me
Jeremy Parsons performer A Recurring Dream Within a Dream, Chomolungma, Mammagamma 04, Tijuaniac, You Can Run
Neil Lockwood vocal Brother Up in Heaven, Call Up, I Can't Look Down, No Future in the Past, Too Close to the Sun
Eric Stewart vocal Blown by the Wind, Blue Blue Sky, Siren Song, Wine from the Water
Chris Thompson (vocalist with Manfred Mann’s Earth Band) vocal Back Against the Wall, Turn It Up, When, You're the Voice
P.J. Olsson performer Chomolungma, More Lost Without You, We Play the Game, You Can Run
Felix Krish bass Take the Money and Run, When, You're the Voice
Jacqui Copland vocal Back Against the Wall, Mr. Time, Turn It Up
David Pack vocal, guitar, synthesizer Oh Life (There Must Be More), The Three of Me
Graham Dye vocal One Day to Fly, Press Rewind
Graham Preskett fiddle, mandolin, violin Jigue, The Three of Me
John Cleese performer Chomolungma
Christopher Cross vocal So Far Away
Deep E performer You Can Run
Hiperboreal performer Tijuaniac
Chris Thompson (Australian producer) vocal Turn It Up
Colin Blunstone vocal Ignorance Is Bliss
Bostich (Mexican electronic music composer) performer Tijuaniac
Beverley Craven vocal The Very Last Time
David Gilmour performer Return to Tunguska
Mike Myers vocal The Time Machine (Dr. Evil edit)
Alastair Greene performer L'Arc en Ciel
Orson Welles performer A Recurring Dream Within a Dream
Fussible performer Tijuaniac
Panóptica performer Tijuaniac
Philharmonia Orchestra (London orchestra aka New Philharmonia Orchestra from 1964-1976) strings Re-Jigue
Shpongle performer Return to Tunguska
Steve Overland vocal Fall Free
The Crystal Method performer We Play the Game
Tim Wiles performer L'Arc en Ciel
Tony Hadley vocal Out of the Blue

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
The Alan Parsons Project engineer, producer, programming, vocal, acoustic guitar, drum machine, electronic instruments, keyboard, other instruments, pipe organ, recorder, synthesizer, vocoder (The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, A Dream Within a Dream, Breakdown, Can’t Take It With You, Children of the Moon, Damned If I Do, Day After Day (The Show Must Go On), Days Are Numbers (The Traveller), Don’t Hold Back, Don’t Let It Show, Eye in the Sky, Games People Play, Gemini, Genesis Ch. 1 V. 32, Hawkeye, Hyper-Gamma-Spaces, I Don’t Wanna Go Home, I Robot, I Would't Want to Be Like You, I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You, If I Could Change Your Mind, In the Lap of the Gods, I’d Rather Be a Man, Lucifer, Mammagamma, May Be a Price to Pay, Nucleus, Old and Wise, One More River, Psychobabble, Pyramania, Secret Garden, Shadow of a Lonely Man, Silence and I, Sirius, Some Other Time, Step by Step, The Cask of Amontillado, The Eagle Will Rise Again, The Fall of The House of Usher: I. Prelude / II. Arrival / III. Intermezzo / IV. Pavane / V. Fall, The Fall of the House of Usher (instrumental): II Arrival, The Fall of the House of Usher (instrumental): V Fall, The Gold Bug, The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Tell‐Tale Heart, The Turn of a Friendly Card: I. The Turn of a Friendly Card, Part One, The Turn of a Friendly Card: II. Snake Eyes, The Turn of a Friendly Card: III. The Ace of Swords, The Turn of a Friendly Card: IV. Nothing Left to Lose, The Turn of a Friendly Card: V. The Turn of a Friendly Card, Part Two, The Voice, Time, To One in Paradise, Total Eclipse, Voyager, What Goes Up..., Winding Me Up, You Don’t Believe, You Lie Down With Dogs, You Won’t Be There, You’re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned
Pink Floyd engineer, remixer Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast: a) Rise and Shine / b) Sunny Side Up / c) Morning Glory, Any Colour You Like, Any Colour You Like (early mix), Atom Heart Mother: a) Father’s Shout / b) Breast Milky / c) Mother Fore / d) Funky Dung / e) Mind Your Throats Please / f) Remergence, Brain Damage, Brain Damage (early mix), Breathe, Breathe (In the Air) (early mix), Eclipse, Eclipse (early mix), Fat Old Sun, If, Money, Money (early mix), On the Run, On the Run (early mix), Speak to Me, Summer ’68, The Great Gig in the Sky, The Great Gig in the Sky (early mix), The Hard Way (from “Household Objects”), The Travel Sequence (studio recording), Time, Time (early mix), Us and Them, Us and Them (early mix)
Pilot producer 55 Degree North 3 Degree West, Auntie Iris, Bad to Me, Call Me Round, Dear Artist, Do Me Good, Don't Speak Loudly, Girl Next Door, Heard It All Before, High Into the Sky, January, Just a Smile, Love Is, Lovely Lady Smile, Lucky for Some, Magic, Never Give Up, Over the Moon, Passion Piece, Sky Blue, Sooner or Later, To You Alone, You're Devotion, You're My No. 1
Jack Ferrier engineer, producer Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Destiny, Don't Let the Moment Pass, Dora, Far Away From Home, Freudiana, Freudiana (instrumental), Funny You Should Say That, I Am a Mirror, Let Yourself Go, Little Hans, No One Can Love You Better Than Me, Sects Therapy, The Nirvana Principle, The Ring, There but for the Grace of God, Upper Me, You're on Your Own
Al Stewart producer A Man for All Seasons, Almost Lucy, Broadway Hotel, End of the Day, Flying Sorcery, If It Doesn’t Come Naturally, Leave It, Life in Dark Water, Lord Grenville, Midas Shadow, On the Border, One Stage Before, Sand in Your Shoes, Song on the Radio, The Palace of Versailles, Time Passages, Timeless Skies, Valentina Way, Year of the Cat
John Miles engineer, producer Bad Blood, Can’t Keep a Good Man Down, C’est la vie, Everybody Wants Some More, Fella in the Cellar, High Fly, It’s Not Called Angel, Lady of My Life, Music, Music (reprise), Oh Dear, Pull the Damn Thing Down, Rebel, Satisfied, We All Fall Down, When You Lose Someone So Young, You Have It All
Jake Shimabukuro engineer, instrument arranger, producer, strings, synthesizer 143, Akaka Falls, Fields of Gold, Gentlemandolin, Gone Fishing, Island Fever Blues, Missing Three, More Ukulele, Music Box, Over the Rainbow, Rolling in the Deep, Ukulele Five-O
Andrea Cadorin balance Music for Amplified Toy Pianos, Music for Carillon: No. 1, Music for Carillon: No. 2, Music for Carillon: No. 3
Syd Barrett engineer Dylan Blues, Wined and Dined (takes 1 & 2)
Alan Simon performer Celtic Ring
Steven Wilson guitar The Holy Drinker
Kinnon Beaton performer The Call of the Wild
DJ Nox vocal, keyboard Precious Life