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

According to Stones ' confidant and close friend of Parsons, Phil Kaufman, the twosome would sit around for hours, playing obscure country records and trading off on various songs with their guitars.

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

According to Fisher in the 2005 biography Grievous Angel: An Intimate Biography of Gram Parsons, the amount of morphine consumed by Parsons would be lethal to three regular users and thus he had likely overestimated his tolerance considering his experience with opiates.

The online List of Supporters reached 5, 500 on what would have been Parsons ' 65th birthday and continues to gather signatures, as well as at G3P's annual Gram InterNational concerts and other tribute events each year.

In the case of steam turbines, such as would be used for marine applications or for land-based electricity generation, a Parsons type reaction turbine would require approximately double the number of blade rows as a de Laval type impulse turbine, for the same degree of thermal energy conversion.

The British ambassador and his wife, Anthony and Sheila Parsons, noted how the Iranians were bemused by her habit of speaking to everyone regardless of status or importance, and hoped the Shah's entourage would learn from the visit to pay more attention to ordinary people.

Described as " the most eclectic and unpredictable of the literary world's annual gongs ", Michelle Pauli posed the question in relation to the longlist for the 2004 edition: " Where would you find Michael Dobbs and Tony Parsons up against Umberto Eco and Milan Kundera for a € 100, 000 prize?

Before each rocket test launch, Parsons would chant Crowley's hymn to the Greek god Pan.

Hubbard became involved with Parsons ' mistress Sara Northrup and they would later marry.

Parsons had identified the redheaded female love interest of the protagonist with Babalon or the " Scarlet Woman ", whom Crowley had prophesied would help to fulfill the Aeon of Horus and announce to the world the end of the Aeon of Osiris represented by Christianity and other patriarchal religions and social institutions.

" This pronouncement would prove prophetic, at least for Parsons himself.

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.

The scuffle which would end in the death of Parsons, his wife, and children began with a trade agreement over a stolen saddle.

Fonda would take a stab at being a singer himself in 1968, recording a 45 for the Chisa label: " November Night " ( written by Gram Parsons ) b / w " Catch The Wind " ( the Donovan song ), produced by Hugh Masekela.

On July 16, 2005, it was announced that Kip Winger would perform as the lead singer for the Alan Parsons Live Project at the Common Ground Music Festival in Lansing, Michignan.

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.

Parsons determined that each individual has expectations of the other's action and reaction to his own behaviour, and that these expectations would ( if successful ) be " derived " from the accepted norms and values of the society they inhabit.

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.

Anticipating a new wave of the Industrial Revolution, Parsons predicted that art and design would soon be inexorably linked to the engines of industry.

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.

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

Between 1930 and 1935 Peter Parsons from Long Island was contracted to produce pit props for the overseas market.

Parsons was a successful producer and accomplished engineer.

Parsons had already acted as assistant engineer on The Beatles ' Abbey Road and Let It Be, had recently engineered Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, and had produced several acts for EMI Records.

Parsons asked Woolfson to become his manager and Woolfson managed Parsons ' career as a producer and engineer through a string of successes including Pilot, Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel, John Miles, Al Stewart, Ambrosia and The Hollies.

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 ).

Credit for invention of the steam turbine is given both to the British engineer Sir Charles Parsons ( 1854 – 1931 ), for invention of the reaction turbine and to Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval ( 1845 – 1913 ), for invention of the impulse turbine.

On June 22, 1909, construction finally began for a working canal under the direction of August Belmont, Jr's Boston, Cape Cod & New York Canal Company, using designs by engineer William Barclay Parsons.

In later years this became a prominent and often successful sideline for major producers, as evidenced by the string of albums by the studio group The Alan Parsons Project ( created by former EMI / Abbey Road staff engineer Alan Parsons ) and the successful musical adaptation of H. G.

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.

Aeronautical engineer and occultist Jack Parsons invoked Pan before test launches at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

William Barclay Parsons ( April 15, 1859 – May 9, 1932 ) was an American civil engineer.

The noted engineer Theodore von Kármán, Parsons ' friend and benefactor, declared that the work of Parsons and his peers helped usher in the age of space travel.

Charles S. Noble, a Florida Central and Peninsula Railroad engineer, was asked to plat approximately forty acres of land north of present day State Road 60, South of Lake Meade, east of Kings Avenue, and west to Parsons Avenue.

The landscape architect and engineer in charge of the newly named " Garden State Parkway " was Gilmore David Clarke, of the architectural firm of Parsons, Brinkerhof, Hall and MacDonald, who had worked with Robert Moses on the parkway systems around New York City.

In 1974, a further album, The Best Years of Our Lives was released, produced by The Beatles ' recording engineer, Alan Parsons.

Sir Charles Algernon Parsons OM KCB FRS ( 13 June 1854 – 11 February 1931 ) was an Anglo-Irish engineer, best known for his invention of the steam turbine.

As the band began casting around for a singer, album engineer Alan Parsons suggested Clare Torry, a 22-year-old songwriter and session vocalist.

Almost all songs on the band's albums are credited to " Woolfson / Parsons ".

The album contains one of Parsons ' best-known songs, " Luxury Liner ", as well as an early version of " Do You Know How It Feels ", which he revisited later on in his career.

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.

" However, Parsons is still featured as lead vocalist on the songs " You're Still on My Mind ", " Life in Prison ", and " Hickory Wind ".

The album's original songs were the result of a very productive songwriting partnership between Parsons and Hillman, who were sharing a bachelor pad in LA during this period.

GP, released in 1973, used the guitar-playing of James Burton ( sideman to Elvis Presley and Ricky Nelson ), and featured new songs from a creatively revitalized Parsons such as " Big Mouth Blues " and " Kiss the Children ," as well as a cover of Tompall Glaser's " Streets of Baltimore ".

Despite the fact that Parsons only contributed two new songs to the album (" In My Hour of Darkness ", " Return of the Grievous Angel "), Parsons was highly enthused with his new sound and seemed to have finally adopted a serious, diligent mindset to his musical career, eschewing most drugs and alcohol during the sessions.

Emmylou Harris has continued to champion Parsons ' work throughout her career, covering a number of his songs over the years, including " Hickory Wind ", " Wheels ", " Sin City ", " Luxury Liner ", and " Hot Burrito No. 2 ".

Harris ' songs " Boulder to Birmingham ", from her 1975 album Pieces of the Sky, and " The Road ", from her 2011 album Hard Bargain, are tributes to Parsons.

The show featured tunes written by Gram Parsons and Gene Clark as well as influential songs and musical styles from other artists that were part of that era.

Another of the early songs to feature a vocoder was " The Raven " on the 1976 album Tales of Mystery and Imagination by progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project ; the vocoder also was used on later albums such as I Robot.

All songs written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, except where noted.

The album also featured two songs written by Roger Capps and Benatar as well as " I Need a Lover " written by John Mellencamp ( then billed as John Cougar ) and " Don't Let It Show " written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.

Although himself an accomplished writer of songs, Dusty had a number of other songwriters, including Mack Cormack, Gordon Parsons, Stan Coster, and Kelly Dixon, who were typically short on formal education but big on personal experience of the Australian bush.

The record's songs consist entirely of country covers, including works originally written by Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, George Jones and Gram Parsons.

The band has released songs originally performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Carter Family, Leadbelly, Gram Parsons, The Soft Boys, The Louvin Brothers, Texas Tornados, and The Stooges.

In 1990, on the last studio collaboration between Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, the album Freudiana, Webb performed two songs: the solo " Don't Let the Moment Pass " and " No One Can Love You Better Than Me " in which she joined forces with Woolfson, Gary Howard and Kiki Dee.

Entitled The Lilac Domino, with an English libretto by Harry B. Smith, lyrics by Robert B. Smith, and additional songs by Howard Carr and Donovan Parsons, it opened on Broadway at the 44th Street Theatre on October 28, 1914, produced by Andreas Dippel.

David Pack later appeared on the Alan Parsons album Try Anything Once ( 1993 ), co-writing, playing and providing vocals on three songs.

" The record is complete ," says Parsons, " but now it comes down to selecting the songs that will make it on the record ".

All songs written by Eric Woolfson, Alan Parsons, except where noted.