Eric Woolfson

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Eric Woolfson was a lead singer, songwriter and lyricist, executive producer, pianist, and co-founder of The Alan Parsons Project. After splitting up with Alan Parsons during the recording of Freudiana, Woolfson has pursued musical theatre. Those are mainly performed in Germany and Austria, but also in Korea and Japan. Contents Life before The Alan Parsons Project: He was born in 1945 (18 March 1945 – 2 December 2009) in Glasgow, Scotland, and started composing music in his early teens. He moved to London where he found work as a session pianist, at the age of eighteen. The record producer for the Rolling Stones, Andrew Oldham, signed him up as a songwriter. During the following years, Woolfson wrote songs for such artists as Marianne Faithfull, Frank Ifield, Joe Dassin, The Tremeloes, Marmalade, Dave Berry, Peter Noone. His songs were recorded by over one hundred artists both in Europe and America. During the sixties he worked with two unknown writers: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. In the early seventies, Eric turned his hand to management and was instantly successful. His first two signings were Carl Douglas, (whose record Kung Fu Fighting was one of the biggest selling hits of all time) and engineer/record producer Alan Parsons. The start of The Alan Parsons Project: In 1975, Woolfson joined forces with record producer Alan Parsons who was a recording engineer on many Beatles and Paul McCartney albums as well as having engineered Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the

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POE More tales of mystery and imagination

Gaudi - Erlebniswelt Der Phantasie

Eric Woolfson Sings The Alan Parsons Project That Never Was

Freudiana

Poe - More Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Somewhere in the Audience

Edgar Allan Poe

Gambler

Gaudi

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Gambler -- Das Geheimnis Der Karten

Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Alan Parsons Project: Wellness, Vol. 9

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