This is from the first Alan Parsons Project Tales of Mystery and Imagination, a concept album based on the Tales of Edgar Alan Poe, a collaboration between Eric Wolfson and Alan Parsons. The Raven was a ground breaker in it's day being one of the first rock songs to feature the newly developed (by EMI) vocoder, a voice changer used to distort the vocals to great effect in this track.

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