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Humpreys By The Bay summer concerts always have interesting shows. I didn’t think I’d ever heard of the Alan Parsons Project, but when I looked up their most popular song, “Eye In The Sky” I definitely knew who they were. Can’t say I would have recognized them by any other song though. For those who don’t know The Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock band active between 1975 and 1987 founded by Englishman Alan Parsons and Scotsman Eric Woolfson. If you’re dying to see The Alan Parsons Project live and you can’t find the tickets you want to this show at the box office here are the places to shop for after market tickets:

1. AIW Tickets always has a great inventory and usually has the cheapest prices too.

2. Stubhub is an excellent place to shop online as well.
They’ll even let you sell your tickets there.

3. TicketsNow is also a solid after market ticket vendor and usually has access the hard to find tickets

4. If those aren’t cutting it for you try a couple of these ticket vendors as well:

Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about The Alan Parsons Project:

* In 1981 [1] Parsons/Woolfson and their record company Arista were stalled in contract renegotiations when on March 5th the two submitted an all-instrumental atonal album tentatively titled, “The Sicilian Defense” (an aggressive opening move in chess with three pawns advancing in a gambit that allows for subsequent attack) arguably to get out of their contract. Arista’s refusal to release said album had two known effects: the negotiations led to a renewed contract and the album has remained unreleased to this day.

“The Sicilian Defense was our attempt at quickly fulfilling our contractual obligation after I Robot, Pyramid and Eve had been delivered. The album was rejected by Arista - not surprisingly - and we then renegotiated our deal for the future and the next album, The Turn Of A Friendly Card. The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.” - Alan Parsons [2]

* On every album there are acknowledgements to Smokey and Hazel, Smokey is Parsons’ ex-wife, (he married Lisa Griffiths on April 12, 2003) and Hazel is Woolfson’s wife.

* Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975 but arrived too late to be included on the original album. On the 2007 Deluxe Edition release it is revealed that parts of this tape were used for the 1976 Griffith Park Planetarium launch of the original album, the 1987 remix and various radio spots, all of which are included as bonus material.

* In the Austin Powers movie The Spy who Shagged Me, Doctor Evil devised a “laser”, calling it “The Alan Parsons Project” after the “noted Cambridge physicist Dr. Parsons.” Parsons subsequently incorporated a number of sound bites from the movie into a remixed version of the title track (called “the Dr. Evil Edit”) from The Time Machine.

* In the Simpsons episode Homerpalooza, Bart starts: “Dad, please. You’re embarrassing us.” Homer replies, “No I’m not. I’m teaching you about rock music. Now Grand Funk Railroad paved the way for Jefferson Airplane, which cleared the way for Jefferson Starship. The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons Project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft.”

* Grandaddy’s promo-only single “Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland” is a humorous cover of the Christmas song Winter Wonderland, with lyrics altered to make the song about Alan Parsons.

* Games People Play is featured in the soundtrack of the 1980s themed video game Vice City Stories under the Flash FM station which plays pop music.