{"id":2185,"date":"2009-12-10T21:21:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T04:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/12\/eric-woolfson-gone\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T21:22:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T04:22:36","slug":"eric-woolfson-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/10\/eric-woolfson-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Woolfson Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Telegraph UK<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Eric Woolfson<\/h1>\n

Eric Woolfson, who has died aged 64, helped to create the best-selling Seventies rock concept band The Alan Parsons Project (APP) which released 10 albums and sold some 45 million copies.<\/p>\n

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Woolfson (left) with Alan Parsons<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/em>Photo: Michael Ochs\/Get<\/em>ty<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Never a conventional band, the APP was designed to make records in the way that Kubrick or Hitchcock made films, with production values rather than star names always paramount. Woolfson and Alan Parsons himself were the permanent core partnership, with countless guest musicians coming and going during recording sessions \u2013 the APP never played live.<\/p>\n

The multi-talented Woolfson was lead singer, songwriter and lyricist, executive producer and pianist, but \u2013 with a modesty not often found in the industry \u2013 was adamant the band should not bear his name.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at The Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The Telegraph UK Eric Woolfson Eric Woolfson, who has died aged 64, helped to create the best-selling Seventies rock concept band The Alan Parsons Project (APP) which released 10 albums and sold some 45 million copies. Woolfson (left) with Alan Parsons\u00a0Photo: Michael Ochs\/Getty Never a conventional band, the APP was designed to make records […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}