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.

The instrumental on that album, " Sirius ", eventually became the best-known ( or at least most frequently heard ) Parsons instrumental.

Moving into Villa Nellcôte with the guitarist during the sessions for Exile on Main Street, Parsons remained in a consistently incapacitated state and frequently quarreled with his much younger girlfriend, aspiring actress Gretchen Burrell.

According to the road manager of Quacky Duck, Parsons was, despite being frequently drunk, a kind soul who provided business and musical guidance to the younger band.

After splitting from Burrell, Parsons would frequently spend his weekends in the area with Margaret Fisher and Phil Kaufman.

Meanwhile, Adams and Parsons engaged in a lengthy feud, which lasted for more than a decade ( the two had feuded earlier in WCCW when Adams was the heel and Parsons was the babyface ), with Parsons frequently referring to Adams as " Jailbird ," a reference to Adams serving jail time in 1986 on an assault conviction.

While most avoid the tedious tasks of reading Spencer's massive volumes ( filled as they are with long passages explicating the organic analogy, with reference to cells, simple organisms, animals, humans and society ), there are some important insights that have quietly influenced many contemporary theorists, including Talcott Parsons, in his early work " The Structure of Social Action " ( 1937 ).

“ When you mass produce blue lasers in large quantities, hardware costs will absolutely come down ,” Mr. Parsons said.

The two shared a mutual penchant for cocaine and heroin, and as a result, the sessions were largely unproductive, with Parsons eventually losing interest in the project.

No reliable German design was available by 1903, so British Parsons turbines were purchased.

They were classmates at Parsons Junior High School and Forest Hills High School, and began performing together in their junior year as Tom and Jerry, with Simon as Jerry Landis ( whose last name he borrowed from a girl he had been dating ) and Garfunkel as Tom Graph ( so called because he was fond of tracking (" graphing ") hits on the pop charts ).

In 1905, a school was built on Parsons Avenue and Victoria Brandon allowed new teachers to board with her so that the new school would have a teacher.

In June 2008, new ownership of the daily newspaper, the Parsons Sun, began monthly charges for access to its website, making it one of the very few online newspapers to do so.

Day's message was intercepted by Shepard's men, so the militia of Shays and Parsons, some 1, 500 men, approached the armory on the 25th not knowing they would have no support from the west.

As Parsons himself emphasized, in a general context there would never exist any perfect " fit " between behaviours and norms, so such a relation is never complete or " perfect.

According to columnist Louella O. Parsons, Darnell was " so young, so immature and so naive in her ideas " and was very loyal to her boss, Darryl F. Zanuck.

It is notable however that Parsons refuses to analyse the illumination experiments, on the grounds that they have not been properly published and so he cannot get at details, whereas he had extensive personal communication with Roethlisberger and Dickson.

Parsons climbed into the bomb bay to load the powder charge, so as to avoid the possibility of a nuclear explosion if the aircraft crashed and burned on takeoff.

The ordnance course was normally followed by a relevant field posting, so Parsons was sent to the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren, Virginia to further study ballistics under L. T. E.

Mrs Taylor was so concerned that at the first opportunity, on Monday morning, she escorted her son to school to talk to Mr Parsons.

Parsons himself could have had his sentence commuted into life in prison rather than death, but he refused to write the letter asking the governor to do so, for this would be an admission of guilt.

The late Benny Parsons was the first driver to qualify at over 200 mph, doing so in 1982 with a speed of 200. 176 mph.

The Dream Syndicate channeled Crazy Horse and Creedence Clearwater Revival via The Velvet Underground while The Bangles recalled The Mamas & the Papas, Green on Red came on as a cousin to The Doors, The Long Ryders honored Gram Parsons and Buffalo Springfield, The Three O ' Clock owed debt to the Bee Gees and The Monkees, and so on.

Young himself had said to Louella Parsons, after failing to win in 1951, " so many people who have been nominated for an Oscar have had bad luck afterwards.

Such speculation had not been confined to tabloid newspapers: William Parsons, of anti-surveillance consultants Systems Elite, remarked that the technical and atmospheric requirements for such a recording to be possible ( both halves of a cellular telephone call, with equal clarity, when the callers were over 100 miles apart, in different network cells ), were so improbable as to arouse suspicion: " My money would not be on somebody accidentally picking it up [...] There is more to this than meets the eye.

On the promotional album, " The Complete Audio Guide To The Alan Parsons Project ", Alan Parsons discusses how he did a rough mix of " I Am Your Singer " that Paul liked so much, he used it for the final mix on the album.

" In 1945, Louella Parsons, a Hollywood Columnist, spoke out on behalf of the actors who served in WWII but who did not get back their careers: " Want to say it again and again and keep on sayng it, our boys who gave up studio jobs to go into the service and who have done so much for Hollywood and for their country must get their jobs back.

1973 is considered the start of the modern era in NASCAR, so Parsons is considered the first modern era champion.

Their role, as Smith and Parsons immediately explained to Fertig, was to verify that he was actually leading a resistance movement and, if so, was it worth the risk of men and supplies to support him.

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 ).