Ep310: Alan Parsons and The Neverending Show
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Alan Parsons started his career at EMI working with artists like The Beatles and Pink Floyd. Within a few years, The Alan Parsons Project was topping the charts and lifting the sonic standards of popular music. Alan has been taking his music on the road and today we talk about his new live album and incredible career.
Topics include:
- Recording with tape & Pro Tools
- Becoming an OBE
- Working at EMI, Sgt Pepper
- Tape operator for Let It Be
- The Beatles Rooftop Concert
- Going from musician to engineer to producer
- The recording of Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
- Vinyl mastering for Atom Heart Mother
- The beginnings of The Alan Parsons Project
- Tales of Mystery & Imagination / The Orson Welles tapes
- Working w Storm Thorgerson & Hipgnosis
- Rotating musicians in the Alan Parsons Project
- The NeverEnding Show - Live in the Netherlands
- Transitioning to touring and playing live
- Listener questions
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| 0:28.5 | And with that, on with the show. Well, hey everyone, it's Nate. Welcome to episode 310 of the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors |
| 0:40.1 | and music nerds, and this week we have on the show with us, legendary artist, engineer, producer, |
| 0:46.5 | songwriter, and now performer, Mr. Allen Parsons. Now, you may know Alan from his incredible |
| 0:52.5 | solo work, but did you know he also worked with |
| 0:55.6 | The Beatles and Pink Floyd, as well as a ton of others? Today we talk to Alan about his |
| 1:00.8 | incredible career, starting off at Abbey Road, working with the Fab Four, then engineering for |
| 1:06.2 | Pink Floyd's dark side of the moon, then on to Tales from his solo career. We talk about it all today. All that |
| 1:12.6 | great music, I-Robot, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, turn of a friendly card, the secret |
| 1:17.9 | eye in the sky. And guess what? Alan has a brand new album out this week, the never-ending show, |
| 1:23.9 | live from the Netherlands. He's playing all the hits. It's on streaming. It's on video. It's on |
| 1:29.1 | Blu-ray. And of course, vinyl. So you can go to the streaming services yourself, load it up. |
| 1:34.5 | You'll be able to enjoy a few tracks now and, of course, enjoy the rest when it all comes out on |
| 1:39.4 | November 5th. That's Alan Parsons, The Neverending Show, and get your autograph vinyl copy at the neverending show.com. |
| 1:48.1 | And hey, guess what? |
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| 2:04.6 | Boston, rock photographer and Led Zeppelin record collector Ross Halfin, |
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