Alan Parsons — Sirius / Eye In The Sky (live) — Fox Theater — March 21, 2024 (4K)

The Alan Parsons Live Project plays "Sirius" and "Eye In The Sky" live in concert at the Fox Theater in Oakland, California in March 21, 2024. Sirius and Eye In The Sky appeared on The Alan Parsons Project's sixth studio album, Eye In The Sky (1982). Sirius is an instrumental that is played at many sporting events, most notably at the opening of Chicago Bulls games. Eyes In The Sky--which featured Eric Woolfson on lead vocals--was released as a single and reached Number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.

Alan Parsons is a British songwriter, producer and audio engineer from London, England who co-founded the rock band The Alan Parsons Project. He was the sound engineer on The Beatles' Abbey Road and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon. The band broke up in 1990 and since 1999, he has toured as the Alan Parsons Live Project. Joining him onstage were P.J. Olsson (vocals), Jeff Kollman (lead guitar), Guy Erez (bass), Todd Cooper (saxophone / guitar / vocals), Dan Tracey (guitar / vocals), Tom Brooks (keyboards), and Danny Thompson (drums).

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Alan Parsons Live Project - Reset & Power Back On Tour (2024):

March 21 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
March 22 - Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Resort
April 5 - Miami, FL @ NCL Pearl: On The Blue Cruise
June 29 - Peachtree City, GA @ Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater
June 30 - Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium

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Alan Parsons Live Project - official bio:

Alan Parsons was born into a family with an impressive history in entertainment. His great-grandfather was the celebrated actor/manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. His mother was an actress, professional folk singer and harpist and his father, Denys Parsons, an accomplished pianist and flautist as well as the author of many books. The late Oliver Reed, film actor was a cousin. His uncle, David Tree was also a film and stage actor.

Alan had dabbled with live performance in his late teens as a folk/blues acoustic player and as a lead guitarist with a blues band called The Earth in the late 60's in his hometown of London. But as soon as he landed a job at the famous Abbey Road Studios at the age of 19, it became clear that the world of sound recording was to dominate his career.

He was fortunate enough to work as assistant engineer on the last two albums by The Beatles and after he qualified as a fully-fledged recording engineer, he went on to work with Paul McCartney and The Hollies among many others. But it was his contribution as engineer on Pink Floyd’s classic The Dark Side Of The Moon that really got him world attention. That soon led to striking successes as a producer – notably with Pilot’s Magic, John Miles’ Highfly and Music and Steve Harley’s (Come Up And See Me) Make Me Smile.

In 1975 he met Eric Woolfson who not only became his manager, but joined forces with Alan as a songwriting and performing partner for what became known as The Alan Parsons Project. The APP’s debut album, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe paved the way for a signing to Clive Davis’ newly launched Arista label and a string of hit albums, namely I Robot, Pyramid, The Turn of a Friendly Card, Eye in the Sky, Ammonia Avenue, Vulture Culture, Stereotomy and Gaudi.

In 1990, Eric and Alan went their separate ways. Eric devoted his career to the musical theatre while Parsons felt the need to bring his music to the live concert stage and to continue to record ambitious symphonic rock music. In 1999, the first incarnation of “Alan Parsons Live Project” toured to sell out audiences throughout the globe. Following Alan’s relocation to California in 1999 with his American girlfriend, Lisa, and a divorce from Smokey, his first wife, a brand-new Live Project band was formed in 2003. That same year Lisa and Alan were married.

Alan has received a large number of awards including 11 Grammy nominations, The Les Paul Award in 1995 and The Diva Hall Of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award in Munich, Germany in June 2012. He is in demand as a public speaker and was keynote speaker at the 2014 Audio Engineering Society Convention in Los Angeles.

2008 saw the reissue of all the Alan Parsons Project albums in expanded form, containing never-before-heard bonus material and a 2-CD compilation called The Essential Collection. One of the most familiar Project tracks is Sirius, perhaps best known as the Chicago Bulls theme. It was also used as the walk-on music for The New Orleans Saints at their triumphant Super Bowl game in 2010 and at the 2012 European Cup soccer matches. Sirius has also been featured at countless other sporting events, commercials and in the movies Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and Beerfest.

Alan has two sons, Jeremy and Daniel, from his first marriage – both living in the UK. Alan now lives on an organic avocado ranch in Santa Barbara, California with his wife Lisa and her two daughters, Tabitha and Brittni, dogs, cats, chickens and an 18-hand Clydesdale called Dante.