Alan Parsons Eye In The Sky Album Cover
Alan parsons project s eye in the sky was almost guaranteed at least moderate success due to the hits that preceded it games people play and time from turn of a friendly card with eye parsons returned in some ways to his more progressive art rock past and the album only had one major hit the lush title track parsons s approach was a synthesis of studio wizardry with a.
Alan parsons eye in the sky album cover. Eye in the sky blu ray blu ray a album re multichannel real gone music arista sony music commercial music group. Directed by john von ahlen. It was released as a single from their sixth studio album eye in the sky 1982 i. The project never shied away from hooks whether it was on the tense white funk of i wouldn t want to be like you or the gleaming pop hooks of games people play but eye in the sky was soft and.
Uk europe us. Dedicated to george orwell. Eye in the sky is the sixth studio album by english rock band the alan parsons project released in june 1982 by arista records at the 25th annual grammy awards in 1983 eye in the sky was nominated for the grammy award for best engineered album in 2019 the album won the grammy award for best immersive audio album at the 61st annual grammy awards. The alan parsons project eye in the sky there s an almost identical european release with a non embossed cover.
See more ideas about alan parsons project alan parsons parsons. Firstly he was in las vegas and a friend who was marketing manager of the tropicana hotel casino and took him to see their surveillance system a small picture of which is on the inside album cover. We wanted to base the album on the sort of concept of big brother is watching you there s always a camera watching you there s always a helicopter in the sky overseeing you and you can read a line of small newspaper print from space. Eye in the sky provided the alan parsons project with their first top ten hit since 1977 s i robot and it s hard not to feel that crossover success was one of the driving forces behind this album.
Eric recalls hearing the eye in the sky expression used 3 times in one day in different contexts which inspired the title. Alan parsons did cop to a 1984 association on the album as a whole telling top 2000 a gogo. Eye in the sky is a song by british rock band the alan parsons project. The alan parsons project.
There s an almost identical european release without the digital mastering logo on it.