The Alan Parsons Project That Never Was

Eric Woolfson sings The Alan Parsons Project That Never Was is an album by the progressive rock musician Eric Woolfson, co-creator with Alan Parsons of The Alan Parsons Project, as well as main songwriter and manager of the band. Released in 2009, this was Woolfson's final album before he died of cancer in December of that year.^[2] The album includes songs that remained unreleased since the Project time for various reasons; however, as Woolfson himself remarks in the booklet, Parsons' dislike for some of Woolfson's compositions would have often caused them to be excluded from a Project album in its very early stages - such as, for example, "Steal Your Heart Away", an "unashamedly commercial" song with a conventionally sentimental lyric, which Parsons, in Woolfson's words, would have absolutely detested.^[3]

Track listing

All songs written by Eric Woolfson.

1. "Golden Key" - 4:12
2. "Nothing Can Change My Mind" - 4:00
3. "Rumour Goin' Round" - 4:39
4. "Any Other Day" - 3:08
5. "I Can See Round Corners" - 5:15
6. "Steal Your Heart Away" - 3:20
7. "Along the Road Together" - 3:21
8. "Somewhere in the Audience" - 4:36
9. "Train to Wuxi" - 4:19
10. "Immortal" - 6:02

Personnel

• Eric Woolfson: vocals, keyboards, guitar on "Train to Wuxi"^[4]
• Ian Bairnson: guitars on "Rumour Goin' Round", "Any Other Day", "Along the Road Together" and "Somewhere in the Audience"
• Richard Cottle: keyboards on "Rumour Goin' Round"
• Stuart Elliott: drums on "Rumour Goin' Round"
• David Paton: bass on "Rumour Goin' Round"
• Gavin Greenaway: Strings arrangements
• Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
• Austin Ince: Sound engineer, programming, additional keyboards
• Haydn Bendall: Sound engineer

References

External links

• Official web-site of The Alan Parsons Project That Never Was
• Official web-site of Eric Woolfson
• Official web-site of Poe
• Official web-site of The Alan Parsons Project