Via the BBC: Musician Eric Woolfson dies aged 64.
Woolfson partnered with Alan Parsons to co-write ten albums as the Alan Parsons Project from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s. If you know an APP song, it’s Sirius, the instrumental piece used by the Chicago Bulls (and many other sports team) as the background to introduce the team before games. Beyond that, if you know Eye in the Sky (I think that Project’s biggest hit single), then you know Woolfson’s voice, as he did the lead vocals for that song, as well as many others (such as Don’t Answer Me from the album Ammonia Avenue, which was a minor hit, as was Time from Turn of a Friendly Card).
The Alan Parson’s Project is one of my favorite all-time musical groups and there is no doubt that if I had to a “desert island discs” bit,1 their premiere album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, would be on my list.
When the Project was ended, Woolfson went on to produce APP-like musicals, Freudiana and Poe.
Woolfson died of cancer and is survived by his wife and two daughters.
- i.e., if you knew you were going to be marooned on a desert island, what ten records would you take? [↩]
December 8th, 2009 at 8:46 am
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