Pink Floyd

By Ken Korczak

Is there such a thing as real faries? Could they really exist? Actually, it's more than possible. Consider:

He was one of the most brilliant and energetic astronomers of the previous century. George Ellory Hale was the driving force behind building the world’s largest observatory till then -- the 200-inch glass giant of Palomar. He also revolutionized our understanding of the sun, inventing the spectroheliograph, with which he made his discoveries of the solar vortices and magnetic fields of sun spots.

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By the time Alan Parsons began having hit records in the mid-'70s, he had already secured his place in music history with his work as an Abbey Road recording engineer and producer for artists like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Paul McCartney & Wings. His work on Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon alone means he occupies millions of album collections.

However, with partner Eric Woolfson and an ever-changing cast of musicians and singers, Parsons notched a string of successful albums and hit singles under the name of Alan Parsons Project. Nearly a dozen of the act's songs had hit the pop charts by the release of their 1984 album Ammonia Avenue, including their 1982 Top Ten smash "Eye In The Sky."

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