Several defendants in the Summerdale police burglary trial made statements indicating their guilt at the time of their arrest, Judge James B. Parsons was told in Criminal court yesterday.

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.

Behind the revolving lineup and the regular sidemen, the true core of the Project was the duo of Parsons and Woolfson.

Parsons was a successful producer and accomplished engineer.

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.

In 2010 Eye to Eye: Alan Parsons Project Live in Madrid was released on CD.

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 ).

Woolfson sang lead on many of the group's hits ( including " Time " and " Eye in the Sky ") and the record company pressured Parsons to use him more, but Parsons preferred " real " singers, which Woolfson admitted he was not.

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

This was because Woolfson and Parsons saw themselves mainly in the roles of writing and production, and also because of the technical difficulties of reproducing on stage the complex instrumentation used in the studio.

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.

It was not presented in the United States until 1970, when a short-lived April production at the Phyllis Anderson Theatre off Broadway starred Barbara Harris as Jenny and Estelle Parsons as Begbick.

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 ).

" 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.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

They had two children: Sylvia Caroline Parsons, born 19 November 1885, and Dr William Barclay Parsons, born 22 May 1888.

John Whiteside Parsons ( born Marvel Whiteside Parsons on October 2, 1914 – died June 17, 1952 ), better known as Jack Parsons, was an American rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology.

Merton was born on 9 July 1957 in Parsons Green, London to an English father

She was born in the English colony of Barbadoes to sugar planter John Downes and his wife Elizabeth ( née Parsons ).

Lucy Eldine Gonzalez Parsons ( born c. 1853 – March 7, 1942 ) was an American labor organizer and radical socialist and anarchist communist.

After Ross and the county's coroner Milton Briggs ( James Handy ) perform an autopsy on the victims and confirm Ross ' suspicion that the deaths were caused by spider bites, he, along with Dr. Atherton, his assistant Chris Collins ( Brian McNamara ), Briggs, Sheriff Lloyd Parsons ( Stuart Pankin ) and exterminator Delbert McClintock ( John Goodman ) investigate and eventually discover that the killer spiders are descendants of the new species James discovered earlier and, due to being born a mixed breed, have a short life expectancy.

Ziegler was born to Louis Daniel Ziegler, a production manager, and Ruby ( Parsons ), in Covington, Kentucky.

* King Parsons ( born 1949 ), American professional wrestler

Christopher Nicholas Parsons OBE ( born 10 October 1923 ) is a British radio and television presenter and actor.

Parsons was born at 1 Castlegate, Grantham, Lincolnshire, the middle child, with an older brother and a younger sister.

His mother, born in Bristol to a founder of local company WB Maggs & Co., was training as a nurse when she met Parsons ' father in a hospital.

Parsons was born left-handed but was made to write with his right hand.

* Lucas Parsons, professional golfer, born in Orange in 1969

* Willy Parsons ( born 1959 ), comedian and actor

* Bill Parsons ( born 1948 ), baseball player

** William Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse ( born 1936 ), worked for the United Nations

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

Script contributors included Andy Hamilton, Mark Burton, John O ' Farrell, Terence Dackombe, Guy Jenkin, Bridget Leathley, Ged Parsons, Andy Riley, Kevin Cecil, Richard Herring, D. A.

* William Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse ( 14 June 1873 – 10 June 1918 ), married Frances Lois Lister-Kaye, daughter of Sir Cecil Lister-Kaye, 4th Baronet and Lady Beatrice Adeline Pelham-Clinton

This pantheon includes the composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Arthur Somervell, Ivor Gurney, George Butterworth, Herbert Howells and Julius Harrison ; the poets A. E. Housman, John Masefield, Cecil Day-Lewis, John Drinkwater and U. A. Fanthorpe ; the authors E. V. Lucas, Arthur Quiller-Couch, William Cobbett, E. Temple Thurston, Francis Brett Young, John Moore, Fred Archer and Jenny Glanfield ; and the artists Peter de Wint, Alfred William Parsons, Benjamin Williams Leader, Frederick Whitehead, Josiah Wood Whymper, Alfred Egerton Cooper, A. R. Quinton, Henry Yeend King and Anna Hornby.

It appears that Parsons was mostly apolitical, although he did refer to one of the younger African-American butlers in the Connor household as being " like a brother " to him in an interview.

The show was revived in London in 1986 starring Paul Nicholas ( Joe ), Lisa Hull ( Charlie Hadwell ), Cyd Charisse ( Lady Hadwell ), Nicholas Parsons ( Nicholas Wainwright ), Dora Bryan ( Kay Connor ) and Mark Wynter ( Jack Connor ), but ran for only six months.

The couple had four children together: Bobbi Jo ( 1944 ) Parsons, Peggy Sue ( 1950 ) Kennedy, George III, known as George Junior ( 1951 ), and Lee ( 1961 ) Dye, who was named after Robert E. Lee.

* Longineu W. Parsons III — drums

The Wallaces had four children: were Bobbi Jo ( 1944 ) Parsons, Peggy Sue ( 1950 ) Kennedy, George Wallace, III ( 1951 ), and Janie Lee ( 1961 ) Dye, who was named after Robert E. Lee.

In the year of Grant's diagnosis, John Jacob Astor III, Elizabeth H. Cullum, John E. Parsons, Thomas A. Emmet, Joseph W. Drexel and other prominent New Yorkers laid the cornerstone for the New York Cancer Hospital, the country's first to devote itself exclusively to the care of cancer patients.

This EP featured Ryan Key on lead vocals, Todd Clary, who soon left the band, on rhythm guitar, Ben Harper on lead guitar, Sean Mackin on violin, Warren Cooke on bass, and Longineu W. Parsons III on drums.