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Today In Music History: Saluting Alan Parsons

Posted at 6:09 AM on December 20, 2011 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History


Birthdays:

Drummer Peter Criss (Kiss) is 66.
Singer Billy Bragg is 54.
Singer-bassist Mike Watt (The Minutemen, fIREHOSE) is 54.


Today in:

1958 - George Harrison, Paul McCartney and John Lennon performed as The Quarrymen at the wedding reception of Harrison's brother, Harry.
1969 - One of the great Rolling Stones albums, Let It Bleed, highlighted by "Midnight Rambler," "Gimme Shelter" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want," hit #1 on the album charts.
1975 - Paul Simon's "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" hit the airwaves.


Birthday Highlight:

Producer Alan Parsons is 63 today. Getting his start at the age of 18 as a staff engineer for Abbey Road studios, his first album credit was as an engineer on The Beatles' Abbey Road. From there he went on to produce Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, making significant contributions to the sound of the album. Parsons formed The Alan Parsons Project in 1975 as a studio project featuring a rotating roster of musicians, and had a few succesful albums in the 70s and early 80s including I Robot and Eye In The Sky. While some of Parsons' music might sound a bit cheesy and muzak-y to our ears today, you could argue that his super-clean, synthesizer-laden sound might be more of an influence than we realize on such modern artsts as Air and M83. We played the instrumental title track to I Robot.

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