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Track: The Eagle Will Rise Again
Artist: The Alan Parsons Project
Album: Pyramid (Expanded Edition)

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Name: The Alan Parsons Project
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British Rock studio project initially formed to record a concept album about Edgar Allan Poe. They became best known for the power ballad "Eye in the Sky" and the instrumental "Sirius". [b]Official band members[/b] ● [a=Alan Parsons] – production, engineering, programming, composition, keyboards, guitar ● [a=Eric Woolfson] – composition, lyrics, piano, keyboards, vocals, executive production [b]Notable contributors[/b] ● [a=Andrew Powell] – composition, keyboards, orchestral arrangements (1975-1990) ● [a=Philharmonia Orchestra] ● [a=The English Chorale] – choir (1976, 1977, 1982, 1987) ● [a=Ian Bairnson] – guitar (1975–1990) ● [a=David Pack] – guitar (1976) ● [a=David Paton] – bass, vocals (1975–1985) ● [a=Duncan Mackay] – keyboards (1977–1979) ● [a=Richard Cottle] – keyboards, saxophone (1984–1990) ● [a=Laurence Cottle] – bass (1987-1990) ● [a=Stuart Tosh] – drums, percussion (1975–1976) ● [a=Stuart Elliott] – drums, percussion (1977–1990) ● [a=John Leach] – cimbalom, kantele (1976–1978) ● [a=Colin Blunstone] – vocals (1978–1984) ● [a=Chris Rainbow] – vocals (1979–1990) ● [a=Lenny Zakatek] – vocals (1977–1987) ● [a=John Miles] – vocals (1976, 1978, 1985, 1987) ● [a=Jack Harris] – vocals (1976–1978) ● [a=Dave Townsend] – vocals (1977, 1979) ● [a=Elmer Gantry] a.k.a. [a=Dave Terry (4)] – vocals (1980, 1982) ● [a=Graham Dye] – vocals (1985, 1990) Non-recurring vocalists include: [a=Arthur Brown] (1975), [a=Allan Clarke] (1977), [a=Peter Straker] (1977), [a=Jaki Whitren] (1977), [a=Dean Ford] (1978), [a=Clare Torry] (1979), [a=Lesley Duncan] (1979), [a=Gary Brooker] (1985), [a=Geoff Barradale] (1987), [a=Eric Stewart] (1990) Notable instruments: Projectron - A device built by Alan Parsons as an analog sample playback device, similar in general concept to a Mellotron. The Projectron consisted of a 24-track tape machine, with each playback channel routed to a voltage controlled amplifier; each VCA was in turn gated by a key of an attached keyboard. The device was used on the albums I Robot, Pyramid, and The Turn of a Friendly Card. But preparing tapes was a cumbersome process and the device was maintenance-intensive, so as soon as a Fairlight CMI became available to Parsons, he switched his sampling activities to that. Parsons scrapped the Projectron sometime after 1980, and no photos of it are known to have survived.

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Release: The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid
Year: 1978
Genres: Rock
Styles: Art Rock, Pop Rock, Prog Rock

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LYRICS

And I could easily fall from grace,
Then another would take my place
For the chance to behold your face...
And the days of my life are but grains of sand
As they fall from your open hand
At the call of the wind's command...

Many words are spoken when there's nothing to say.
They fall upon the ears of those who don't know the way
To read between the lines, that lead between the lines
That lead me to you.

All that I ask you
Is, show me how to follow you and I'll obey.
Teach me how to reach you, I can't find my way.
Let me see the light...Let me be the light.

As the sun turns slowly around the sky
Till the shadow of night is high...
The eagle will learn to fly.

And the days of his life are but grains of sand
As they fall from your open hand
And vanish among the land.

Many words are spoken when there's nothing to say...
They fall upon the ears of those who don't know the way
To read between the lines, by following the signs
That can lead to you...

But show me how to follow you and I'll obey.
Teach me how to reach you, I can't find my way.
Let me see the light...Let me be the light.

And so, with no warning, nor last goodbyes,
In the shadow of the morning skies,
The eagle will rise
Again.