BETHLEHEM, Pa. — An English progressive rock group that in the late 1970s and early 1980s produced gold and platinum albums will play at Wind Creek Event Center, it has been announced.
Alan Parsons Live Project, which continues the work of Alan Parsons Project, will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15.
Alan Parsons Project from 1976-84 had seven gold and platinum albums that collectively sold more than 5 million copies and crossed over to have eight Top 40 singles including the hits “Games People Play,” “Eye in the Sky” and “Time.”
Tickets, at $39.50-$99.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 5, at the venue at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem, and at the Wind Creek Event Center website.Wind Creek Event Center website
Tickets, at $39.50-$99.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 5, at the venue at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem, and at the Wind Creek Event Center website.
Alan Parsons Project started as a duo of Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, with a rotating lineup of supporting musicians.
Parsons was an audio engineer and record producer who was involved with significant albums that included The Beatles’ “Abbey Road” and “Let It Be,” and Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon.” Woolfson was a songwriter, lyricist and vocalist.
Woolfson died in 2009.
45 years of recording success
Alan Parsons Project released its debut album, “Tales of Mystery and Imagination,” in 1976, but had its U.S. breakthrough in 1977 with the album “I Robot,” which sold platinum and made the Billboard Top 10 with the Top 40 single “I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You.”
Its next two albums, 1978’s “Pyramid” and 1979’s “Eve,” both sold gold, and the latter had the Top 40 song “Damned If I Do.” But the group again found success with 1980’s “The Turn of a Friendly Card,” with the Top 20 hits “Games People Play” and “Time.”
The group had its biggest success in 1982 with the Top 10 platinum album “Eye in the Sky,” with the No. 3 title track.
Alan Parsons Project continued having success with the 1984 gold album “Ammonia Avenue,” with the Top 10 Adult chart hits “Don’t Answer Me” and “Prime Time,” and the Rock chart hits “Stereotomy” and “Standing on Higher Ground.”
The group continued to release albums — 11 in all — through 1990.
After Woolfson’s death, Parsons released four solo albums, then re-activated the band to release the album “The Sicilian Defence” in 2014.
Parsons released a solo studio album, “The Secret,” in 2019 as his first in 15 years, and his most recent, "From the New World," in 2022. Also in 2022, he released a live album, "One Note Symphony — Live In Tel Aviv."
Since 2012, he also had done studio vocals for German Electronica group Lichtmond, and with YES members Billy Sherwood and Chris Squire as The Prog Collective.
Parsons has been nominated for 11 Grammy Awards.
The Alan Parsons Live Project played at Lehigh University’s Zoellner Arts Center in 2010, and Alan Parsons Live Project played Wind Creek, then known as Sands Bethlehem Event Center, in November 2018.
