The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.

Parsons would produce and engineer songs written by the two, and the Alan Parsons Project was born.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.

While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.

Most of the Project's titles, especially the early work, share common traits ( likely influenced by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, on which Parsons was the audio engineer in 1973 ).

This score was partly in the Project style, recorded by most of the Project regulars, and produced and engineered by Parsons.

* Ladyhawke ( 1985, soundtrack by Powell and Parsons )

The team, led by Dr. Dan Parsons and Dr. Jeff Peakall from the University of Leeds, has been able to study the detailed flow within these channels.

The project was led by Dr Jeff Peakall and Dr Daniel Parsons at the University of Leeds in collaboration with the University of Southampton, Memorial University ( Newfoundland, Canada ), and the Institute of Marine Sciences ( Izmir, Turkey ).

News channel coverage is often presented by Haslam, Maryam Moshiri, Ben Thompson, Adam Parsons, Susannah Streeter, Joe Lynam, Sara Coburn and Sally Eden.

" Smile ", composed originally for Modern Times ( 1936 ) and later set to lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, was a hit for Nat King Cole in 1954.

The modern steam turbine ( invented by Sir Charles Parsons in 1884 ) currently generates about 80 % of the electric power in the world using a variety of heat sources.

The modern steam turbine invented by Sir Charles Parsons in 1884 today generates about 80 percent of the electric power in the world using a variety of heat sources.

Sketch of Whirlpool Galaxy | Messier 51 by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse | Lord Rosse in 1845, later known as the Whirlpool Galaxy

Another text in which the heroine of the Gothic Novel encounters the Supernatural Explained is The Castle of Wolfenbach ( 1793 ) by Gothic author Eliza Parsons.

This Female Gothic text by Parsons is listed as one of Catherine Morland's Gothic texts in Austen's Northanger Abbey.

Avis subsequently married Robert Parsons, whose surname was adopted by Ingram ( henceforth he would be known as Gram Parsons ).

Although Parsons was an equal contributor to the band, he was not regarded as a full member of The Byrds by the band's record label, Columbia Records.

Along the way, McGuinn's original album concept was jettisoned in favor of a fully fledged country project, which included Parsons ' songs such as " One Hundred Years from Now " and " Hickory Wind ", along with compositions by Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Merle Haggard, and others.

There has been some doubt expressed by Hillman over the sincerity of Parsons ' protest.

With the assistance of Grech and one of the bassist's friends, a doctor who also dabbled in country music and is now known as Hank Wangford, Parsons managed to kick his heroin habit once and for all ( a treatment suggested by William Burroughs proved unsuccessful ).

While he had been in the vanguard with The Byrds and the Burrito Brothers, Parsons was now perceived as being too authentic and traditional in an era dominated by the stylings of the Eagles, whose sound Parsons disdained ( although he did maintain cordial relations with Bernie Leadon, a former member of the Eagles who left the group in 1975 ).

In the late 1960s, Parsons became enamored with Joshua Tree National Monument ( now Joshua Tree National Park ) in southeastern California.

" But nevertheless, Richards claims that Parsons " effect on country music is enormousthis is why we're talking about him now.

He was still in contact with his Shrewsbury friends, who had added John Wells to their number, and were now running their own humour magazines at Oxford, Parsons Pleasure and Mesopotamia, to which Rushton made many contributions during his frequent visits.

A town was platted on Way Key in 1859, and Parsons and Hale's General Store, which is now the Island Hotel, was built there in the same year.

The only reminder of the Katy Railroad is now found in the local historical society's museum and of course the tracks, over which trains now speed through Parsons.

By now the show had proved a hit, and several notable stars appeared in later productions, including Leslie Phillips, Miranda Richardson, Lionel Jeffries, Nicholas Parsons, Peter Capaldi, Kate Bush, Richard Vernon, Ruby Wax, Graham Crowden, Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Elvis Costello, and Benjamin Zephaniah ( as a Rastafarian police van driver ) and several musical acts, particularly from the Bad News series which was also aided by Queen guitarist Brian May, such as Def Leppard and Marillion.

It had been due to his influence that the Society of Jesus, to which he was greatly attached, undertook to join in the work of the English mission ; and now Allen and Father Parsons became joint leaders of the " Spanish Party " amongst the Roman Catholics in England and in Ireland.

The presence of such well-known Anarchists as Mrs. Lucy Parsons, wife of one of the victims of the outrageous Haymarket trial, Emma Goldman, common-law wife of Berkman, who shot Manager Frick at the time of the Homestead strike, and others, all enlisted under the colonization wing, the members of which were now using the phrases of the Anarchists at sneering at political action, showed that a parting of the ways must come.

In the fields surrounding the nearby Danesbury House, now converted into accommodation, is a dilapidated and neglected former fernery designed by Anthony Parsons ( then gardener for the Danesbury Estate ) and constructed by the second James Pulham ( known as James 2, being the second of four successive James Pulhams within that family ) of James Pulham & Son fame in 1859.

The group included Clarke Chapman ( cranes ), Reyrolle ( now part of Siemens ) and Parsons ( now part of Siemens steam turbines ).

The agency commissioned Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Hall and MacDonald ( now Parsons Brinckerhoff ) to study possible rapid transit services for South Jersey ; Parsons, Brinckerhoff's final report recommended building a new tunnel under the Delaware and three lines in New Jersey.

511. org is a service of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and was designed by the transportation engineering company Parsons Brinckerhoff, Farradyne ( now Telvent Farradyne ).

In May 1927, Parsons, now a lieutenant ( junior grade ), returned to Annapolis, where he commenced a course in ordnance at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Parsons claimed to be the sire of pioneer English immigrants, with " the first Parsons family " arriving at Narragansett Bay in what is now the state of Rhode Island in 1632.

Parsons was buried in the Waldheim Cemetery ( now Forest Home Cemetery ) in a plot marked since 1893 by the Haymarket Martyrs Monument, in Forest Park, Chicago.

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

* Space Antelope played from 1982 – 1983, featuring Anastasio, The Dude of Life, Doug Parsons ( drums, English teacher at the Boys ' Latin School of Maryland ), Dudley Taft and others.

* The International Submarine Band, a 1960s country-rock group featuring Gram Parsons

His 1942 novel Rocket to the Morgue, in addition to being a classic locked room mystery, is also something of a roman à clef about the Southern California science fiction culture of the time, featuring thinly-veiled versions of personalities such as Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard and rocket scientist / occultist / fan Jack Parsons.

Talcott Parsons, a major figure in sociology, who was the main originator of action theory in the early 20th century, based his sociological theory of action system is build up around a general theory of society, which is codified within a cybernetic model featuring four functional imperatives: adaptation, goal-attainment, integration, and pattern maintenance.

Streets featuring Victorian and Edwardian era houses include Ormond Street, McCraken Street, Rankins Road, Bellair Street, Lambeth Street and Parsons Street.

Monsky and Parsons Peditto would leave the series within the first season, and the show took on a hard tabloid format after their departure, with stories featuring outrageous content or titillation being featured much more than serious topics, along with graphics in bold and large fonts, and MTV-style camera work.

Gregg Rolie ( keyboards ) played with Abraxas Pool ( featuring most of the original Santana members-himself, Chepito Areas, Michael Carabello and Michael Shrieve-as well as Neal Schon and Alphonso Johnson ), Ross Valory ( bass ) went on to a reformed Journey, Ron Wikso ( drums ) went on to play with David Lee Roth, Foreigner and Richie Sambora, Kevin Chalfant ( vocals ) and Josh Ramos ( guitar ) formed another band called Two Fires who released two albums so far, and pursued solo careers, Chalfant making lead vocal stints in The Alan Parsons Project ( 2003 ) and Shooting Star ( 2006 ).

* The fictional name of Mr. Jolly's company in the film, Little Fluffy Toys Ltd, now exists as a software house owned by fans of the film that has published a computer game featuring exploding tonic water and voice-overs by Nicholas Parsons.

He created Hank Williams ' white cowboy suit with musical notations on the sleeves, and Gram Parsons ' infamous suit for the cover of the Flying Burrito Brothers ' 1969 album The Gilded Palace of Sin, featuring pills, poppies, marijuana leaves, naked women, and a huge cross.