Every time we buy something with a credit card our names and addresses are circulated to another 1000 places. Just the general observation that we can never be so isolated that people don't know who we are. Or, it could be the helicopter that flies over when there is a crime incident. It could be the satallite that can read the newspaper in your back garden from 100 miles in space. It covers the fact we can never be left to our own devices we will always be watched. It was more than just the hidden cameras.
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He had a certain fascination with the hidden cameras that were there watching the tables, taping the games and what have you. Alan: Interestingly in some ways it was an extension of the gambling theme, because Eric started to spend a lot of time in Las Vegas during this period. 'Eye in the Sky' has a double meaning it's both a name for satelites and video camera's in casinos. The vocals on the song were done by Eric Woolfson. Especially for the discos a Disconet Remix was made with a length of almost 10 minutes. The single of Eye in the Sky reached the third position in the US charts. When the music of Sirius fades, the bass keeps playing and goes into the bass line of the catchy title track, thus merging the two perfectly. The mysterious and bombastic tune is a perfect opening theme and also worked very well as a tension builder during Alan Parson's live appearances in the nineties. For instance, the Chicago Bulls basketball team used it to introduce their players.
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Even if you have never heard the album you probably know this tune, since it has been used as background music on radio and TV numerous times, like so many other APP instrumentals.
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With the modern sampling machines this might not seem like a big deal, but it definitely was back in 1982.Īs most of the early APP albums, Eye in the Sky also opens with a short instrumental Sirius. The keyboard could then be used to play the sound in different tones. This piece of equipment had a keyboard connected to a computer in which all kinds of sounds could be stored, like breaking glass.
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So that's what 'Eye in the Sky' really ended up being a conceptless album but with a similar format as the previous albums.Įye in the Sky was also the first digitally mastered APP album and new techniques were used as well, such as the Fairlight. So this time we felt 'let's just go in and make an album and then maybe at the end decide what it's all about'. At the same time I felt that it was time to break away from that, especially as we had so much negative criticism like being pretentious for constantly making concept albums.
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Something we had almost become recognised for is the fact that we have always had some form of theme running through the records we've done. Vocalists on the album were all 'Project veterans' Eric Woolfson, David Paton, Chris Rainbow, Lenny Zakatek, Elmer Gantry and Colin Blunstone.Įye In The Sky was the first APP album which was not hooked up on a certain theme like the previous albums (which had Edgar Alan Poe, robots and science fiction, women, pyramids and gambling as themes).Īlan Parsons: The 'Eye in the Sky' album was perhaps an exception to all the other albums we had done in the past. The album again featered most of the people who had formed the base band on previous albums Alan Parsons (song writing, production, engineering, keyboards and fairlight programming), Eric Wolfson (song writing, keyboards, vocals), Andrew Powell (orchestra and choir conducting), David Paton (bass and vocals) - Paton used to play in Pilot in the seventies and would later play with Fish in the nineties -, ex-Pilot guitarist Ian Bairnson (who has appeared on every Parsons album) and drummer Stuart Elliot (of Steve Harley's Cockney Rebel). After the success of the platinum Turn Of A Friendly Card, The Alan Parsons Project released their 6th album in April 1982.