He had participated in some of the best albums of the time ("Abbey Road" by the Beatles, Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side Of the Moon" or Al Stewart "Year of The Cat").
Alan Parsons was not a musician as such, but a producer who had too many musical ideas which he wanted to put into practice by founding The Alan Parsons Project.
However, this project was never a group as such, Alan Parsons would use musicians in each of his albums, most of them session at his convenience.
Already in his first album "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" included Eric Woolfson as a solo singer and lyricist, this work based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe was his first success both in criticism and the fervor of the public.
From here Parsons would rely on Woolfson to write the lyrics of the music he composed and then they recruited the most suitable musicians for the concept to be developed in each work.
So for his second album "I, Robot" based on another book, this time a science fiction album by Isaac Asimov, he would have guitarist Ian Bairnson, bassist David Paton, drummer Stuart Tosh or Andrew Powell on string arrangements and keyboards among many others.
"I, Robot" is an album with complex instrumental arrangements, although it was nevertheless commercially attractive, where the vocal space was a simple decorative element, despite having a cast of great voices such as Steve Harley or Lenny Zakatek.
At the time it was considered that the album was technically very advanced for its time, with a really remarkable sound (it still is), and today "I, Robot" is still considered a milestone and a masterpiece of musical engineering.
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