Parsons commented at the time that he felt frustrated in having to accommodate the views of some of the musicians, which he felt interfered with his production. When Parsons asked Woolfson to become his manager, he accepted and subsequently managed Parsons's career as a producer and engineer through a string of successes, including Pilot, Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel, John Miles, Al Stewart, Ambrosia, and the Hollies. Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Parsons had already acted as Assistant Engineer on the Beatles' albums Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970), had recently engineered Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), and had produced several acts for EMI Records. Career 1974–1976: Formation and debutĪlan Parsons met Eric Woolfson in the canteen of Abbey Road Studios in the summer of 1974. Almost all songs on the Project's albums are credited to "Woolfson/Parsons". A songwriter by profession, Woolfson was also a composer, a pianist, and a singer. Behind the revolving line-up and the regular sidemen, the true core of the Project was the duo of Parsons and Woolfson Parsons was an audio engineer and producer by profession, but also a musician and a composer. They were accompanied by a varying number of session musicians and some relatively consistent band members such as guitarist Ian Bairnson, arranger Andrew Powell, bassist and vocalist David Paton, drummer Stuart Elliott, and vocalists Lenny Zakatek and Chris Rainbow. The Alan Parsons Project were an English rock band active between 19, whose rosters consisted of Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.
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