Traditionally, Lucifer ( or ) is a name that in English generally refers to the Devil or Satan, especially in reference to his status as a fallen angel.

In Latin, from which the English word is derived, ''Lucifer'' (as a noun) means "light-bearer" (from the words ''lucem ferre''). It was the name given to the Morning Star, i.e. the planet Venus when seen at dawn.

Use of the name "Lucifer" for the Devil stems from applying to the Devil what says of a king of Babylon whom it calls ''Helel'' (הֵילֵל, Shining One), a Hebrew word that refers to the Day Star or Morning Star (the Latin term for which is ''lucifer'') This association developed in Early Christianity, in the 2nd or 3rd century.

In and elsewhere, the same Latin word ''lucifer'' is used to refer to the Morning Star, with no relation to the Devil. In , Jesus himself is called the Morning Star but not "Lucifer", even in Latin (Vulgata ''stella splendida matutina'').

The Devil as Lucifer[link]

It is uncertain when precisely the Isaiah passage, which in its Latin translation contains the name "Lucifer", began to be applied to Satan, but it was certainly used in this way by 3rd-century Origen, and some scholars claim that the identification of "Lucifer" with the Devil was first made by Origen, Tertullian and Augustine of Hippo.

Jewish apocalyptic literature[link]

The association of Satan with the "Lucifer myth" develops in the tradition of Jewish pseudepigraphical texts of the 1st century BC such as ''Life of Adam and Eve'' and the ''Second Book of Enoch''. In these writings, Satan-Sataniel (sometimes identified with Samael) is described as having been one of the archangels. Because he contrived "to make his throne higher than the clouds over the earth and resemble 'My power' on high", Satan-Sataniel was hurled down, with his hosts of angels, and since then, he has been flying in the air continually above the abyss.

The ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' states that in the apocalyptic literature, the conception of fallen angels is widespread. Throughout antiquity, stars were commonly regarded as living celestial beings (). Indications of belief in fallen angels, behind which probably lies the symbolizing of shooting stars, an astronomical phenomenon, are found in Isaiah 14:12.

Early Christian texts[link]

The Early Christian writers Tertullian ("Contra Marcionem," v. 11, 17), Origen (''Homilies on Ezekiel'' 13), and others identify Lucifer with the Devil, who also is represented as being "cast down from heaven" (; cf. ).

In the New Testament the "adversary" has many names, but "Lucifer" is not among them. He is called "Satan" (Matt. 4:10; Mark 1:13, 4:15; Luke 10:18), "devil" (Matt. 4:1), "adversary" (1. Peter 5:8, ἀντίδικος; 1. Tim. 5:14, ἀντικείμενος), "enemy" (Matt. 13:39), "accuser" (Rev. 12:10), "old serpent" (Rev. 20:2), "great dragon" (Rev. 12:9), Beelzebub (Matt. 10:25, 12:24), and Belial (comp. Samael). In Luke 10:18, John 12:31 and Rev. 12:9 the fall of Satan is mentioned. The devil is regarded as the author of all evil (Luke 10:19; Acts 5:3; 2. Cor. 11:3; Ephes. 2:2), who beguiled Eve (2. Cor. 11:3; Rev. 12:9). Because of Satan, death came into this world, being ever the tempter (1. Cor. 7:5; 1. Thess. 3:5; 1. Peter 5:8), even as he tempted Jesus (Matt. 4). The Christian demonology and belief in the devil dominated subsequent periods. However, though the New Testament includes the conception that Satan fell from heaven "as lightning" (Luke 10:18; Rev. 12:7–10), it nowhere applies the name Lucifer to him.

Some contemporary exorcists, theologians, and spiritual teachers such as Father José Antonio Fortea, Father Amorth, and Rudolf Steiner assert that Lucifer and the Devil are different beings.

Isaiah 14:12[link]

The relevant passage is in chapter 14 of the Book of Isaiah: "And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ! ... How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit." (KJV, Isaiah 14:3-5, 12-15).

Isaiah here promises that the Israelites will be freed from their Babylonian captivity and will then be able to use in a taunting song against their oppressor the image of the Morning Star, which rises at dawn as the brightest of the stars, outshining Jupiter and Saturn, but lasting only until the sun appears. This image was used in an old popular Canaanite story that the Morning Star tried to rise high above the clouds and establish himself on the mountain where the gods assembled, in the far north, but was cast down into the underworld.

The phrase "O star of the morning, son of the dawn" in verse 12 translates the Hebrew . As the Latin poets personified the Morning Star and the Dawn (Aurora), as well as the Sun and the Moon and other heavenly bodies, so in Canaanite mythology Morning Star and Dawn were pictured as two deities, the former being the son of the latter.

The Septuagint renders the phrase as "the early-rising Eosphorus". Jerome follows this in his Latin Vulgate text, translating ''lucifer qui mane oriebaris'' ("morning star that used to rise early").

This passage came to be applied to Satan in his role as the "fallen angel" by the Church fathers of the 3rd century, including Tertullian and Origen. However the word ''lucifer'' never came to be seen as a proper name of Satan in Latin, as it did in English. Lucifer was still used as a given name, as for 4th-century Lucifer of Cagliari (d. 370). As a title of Christ, it is still used in the Exsultet hymn sung during the Easter Vigil in the Roman Rite.

Most modern English versions (including the NIV, RSV, NRSV, NASB, NABRE, NJB and ESV) render the Hebrew word as "day star", "morning star" or something similar, and never as "Lucifer", a word that in English is now very rarely used in the sense of the original word in Hebrew (Morning Star), though in Latin "Lucifer" was a literal translation.

A passage quite similar to that in Isaiah is found in , which is expressly directed against the king of Tyre, a city on an island that had grown rich by trade, factors alluded to in the text. In Christian tradition, it too has been applied to Lucifer, because of some of the expressions contained in it. But, since it does not contain the image of the Morning Star, discussion of it belongs rather to the article on Satan than to that on Lucifer.

The same holds for the Christian depiction of Satan in other books of the Old Testament as, for instance, in the Book of Job, where Satan, who has been wandering the Earth, has a discussion with God and makes a deal with him to test Job.

The Tyndale Bible Dictionary states that there are many who believe the expression "Lucifer" and the surrounding context in Isaiah 14 refer to Satan: they believe the similarities among , , and warrant this conclusion. But it points out that the context of the Isaiah passage is about the accomplished defeat of the king of Babylon, while the New Testament passages speak of Satan.

In the Latter Day Saint movement[link]

Some Mormon sects in the Latter Day Saint movement maintain that Lucifer was a name of the Devil before he rebelled against God and was cast out of heaven. Accounts of the fall of Lucifer/Satan are found in several places within LDS canonical scripture, including the Doctrine and Covenants and in the Pearl of Great Price. The Book of Mormon also contains sections from the King James version of Isaiah, including Isaiah 14:12–15. The Book of Mormon version references the Latin translation of “morning star” as “Lucifer” that is used, in some versions of The Bible.

The Book of Moses in "The Pearl of Great Price" in chapter 4, verses 1-4 states:

"And I, the Lord God, spake unto Moses, saying: That Satan, whom thou hast commanded in the name of mine Only Begotten, is the same which was from the beginning, and he came before me, saying— Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely I will do it; wherefore give me thine honor. But, behold, my Beloved Son, which was my Beloved and Chosen from the beginning, said unto me— Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever. Wherefore, because that Satan rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man, which I, the Lord God, had given him, and also, that I should give unto him mine own power; by the power of mine Only Begotten, I caused that he should be cast down; And he became Satan, yea, even the devil, the father of all lies, to deceive and to blind men, and to lead them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice."

In Judaism[link]

In Judaism, "morning star" refers to the king of Babylon, who is warned in of his coming demise at the hands of the Persians and the Medes. Isaiah was living in a the time period shortly before the Babylonian Conquest of Kingdom of Judah in 586 B.C.E. Isaiah had prophetic visions about the coming result of the Babylonian Exile on Jews and the nations. By contrast, Satan is considered an angel under the direct command of the God of Israel. Satan is considered an accuser appointed by God to test men's faith, similar to a prosecutor in a court of law.

Use of the word "lucifer" in the Bible [link]

The Vulgate (Latin) version of the Christian Bible used the word "lucifer" (with lower-case initial) twice to refer to the Morning Star: once in to translate the Greek word φωσφόρος (phōsphoros), a word, from φῶς (phōs) meaning "light" and φέρω (pherō̄) meaning "to carry", that has the same meaning of Light-Bringer that the Latin word has, and once in to translate the Hebrew word הילל (Hêlēl). In the latter passage the title of "Morning Star" is given to the tyrannous Babylonian king, who the prophet says is destined to fall. This passage was later applied to the prince of the demons, and so the name "Lucifer" came to be used outside the Bible for the devil, and was popularized in works such as Dante Alighieri's ''Inferno'' and John Milton's ''Paradise Lost'', but for English speakers the greatest influence has been its use in the King James Version of to translate the Hebrew word הילל, which more modern English versions render as "Morning Star" or "Day Star". A similar passage in regarding the "king of Tyre" was also applied to the devil, contributing to the traditional picture of the fallen angel.

The Vulgate translation uses "lucifer" (Morning Star) twice to translate words in the Book of Job that meant something different: once to represent the word "בקר"‎ (which instead means "morning") in , and once for the word "מזרות" (usually taken to mean "the constellations") in . The same Latin word appears also in the Vulgate version of , where the original has "שׁחר" (dawn, the same word as in ).

The Vulgate did not use the Latin word ''lucifer'' to represent the two references to the Morning Star in the Book of Revelation. In both cases the original Greek text uses a circumlocution instead of the single word "φωσφόρος", and a corresponding circumlocution is used in the Latin. Thus "stella matutina" is used for "ὁ ἀστὴρ ὁ πρωϊνός" in , which promises the Morning Star to those who persevere, and for "ὁ ἀστὴρ ὁ πρωϊνός" (or, according to some manuscripts, "ὁ ἀστὴρ ὁ ὀρθρινός") in , where Jesus calls himself "the bright morning star".

The English word "Lucifer" is used in none of these places (other than Isaiah 14:12), where the Latin translation uses the Latin word "lucifer" (i.e., morning star).

"Morning Star" as a title [link]

Jesus is referred to as "the bright and morning star" (ὁ ἀστὴρ ὁ λαμπρὸς καὶ ὀρθρινός) in Revelation 22:16, but not as ''Phosphorus'' (''Lucifer'').

The Exultet chant in praise of the paschal candle in the Roman Rite calls Christ the Morning Star, using the Latin word, ''lucifer'':

Flammas eius ''lucifer'' matutinus inveniat: ille, inquam, ''lucifer'', qui nescit occasum, Christus Filius tuus qui, regressus ab inferis, humano generi serenus illuxit, et vivit et regnat in saecula saeculorum.

May this flame be found still burning by the ''Morning Star'': the one ''Morning Star'' who never sets, Christ your Son, who, coming back from death's domain, has shed his peaceful light on humanity, and lives and reigns for ever and ever.

In the Litany of Loreto the Blessed Virgin Mary is invoked as "Stella matutina" (Morning Star), and a popular English hymn addressed to her has the stanza: :Mary Immaculate, Star of the Morning, :Chosen before the creation began, :Destined to bring, through the Light of your Dawning, :Conquest of Satan, and rescue to Man.

"Morning Star" was also applied as a title to Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II in 968. Liutprand, Bishop of Cremona, reports that the emperor was greeted on his arrival at Hagia Sophia with the chant: "Behold the morning star approaches, Eos rises; he reflects in his glances the rays of the sun – he the pale death of the Saracens, Nicephorus the ruler."

Astronomical significance[link]

Because the planet Venus is an inferior planet, meaning that its orbit lies between the orbit of the Earth and the Sun, it can never rise high in the sky at night as seen from Earth. Depending on the orbital locations of both Venus and Earth, it can be seen in the eastern morning sky for an hour or so before the Sun rises, or in the western evening sky for an hour or so after the Sun sets, but never during the dark of midnight.

It is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon. As bright and as brilliant as it is, ancient people did not understand why they could not see it at midnight like the outer planets, or during midday, like the Sun and Moon. It outshines the planets Saturn and Jupiter, which do last all night, but it soon disappears. Canaanite mythology has a story of an unsuccessful attempt by Athtar, the Morning Star pictured as a god, to take over the throne of Baal.

"Lucifer" as Latin name for the Morning Star[link]

In Classical Latin, ''Lucifer'' was used as a translation of Greek ''Phosphoros'' (lit. "light-bearer"), a term for the morning star. It is first found in Varro and Cicero. :''stella Veneris, quae'' Φωσφόρος ''Graece Lucifer Latine dicitur cum antegreditur solem, cum subsequitur autem'' Ἕσπερος (''De Natura Deorum'', 2.53 :"The star of Venus, called in Greek ''Phosphoros'' (the light-bringer) and in Latin Lucifer when it precedes the sun, but when it follows it ''Hesperos''."

The Taxil Hoax: Lucifer's alleged connection with Freemasonry[link]

Léo Taxil (1854–1907) claimed that Freemasonry is associated with worshipping Lucifer. In what is known as the Taxil hoax, he claimed that supposedly leading Freemason Albert Pike had addressed "The 23 Supreme Confederated Councils of the world" (an invention of Taxil), instructing them that Lucifer was God, and was in opposition to the evil god Adonai. Apologists of Freemasonry contend that, when Albert Pike and other Masonic scholars spoke about the "Luciferian path," or the "energies of Lucifer," they were referring to the Morning Star, the light bearer, the search for light; the very antithesis of dark, satanic evil. Taxil promoted a book by Diana Vaughan (actually written by himself, as he later confessed publicly) that purported to reveal a highly secret ruling body called the Palladium, which controlled the organization and had a Satanic agenda. As described by ''Freemasonry Disclosed'' in 1897: :''With frightening cynicism, the miserable person we shall not name here [Taxil] declared before an assembly especially convened for him that for twelve years he had prepared and carried out to the end the most sacrilegious of hoaxes. We have always been careful to publish special articles concerning Palladism and Diana Vaughan. We are now giving in this issue a complete list of these articles, which can now be considered as not having existed.'' Taxil's work and Pike's address continue to be quoted by anti-masonic groups.

In ''Devil-Worship in France'', Arthur Edward Waite compared Taxil's work to what today we would call a tabloid story, replete with logical and factual inconsistencies.

See also "Lucifer and Satan" at the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon website.

Occult beliefs[link]

In the modern occultism of Dolores North (alias Madeline Montalban), Lucifer's identification as the Morning Star (Venus) equates him with Lumiel, whom she regarded as the Archangel of Light, and among Satanists he is seen as the "Torch of Baphomet" and Azazel.

In the Satanic Bible of 1969, Lucifer is acknowledged as one of the Four Crown Princes of Hell, particularly that of the East. Lord of the Air, Lucifer has been named "Bringer of Light, the Morning Star, Intellectualism, Enlightenment."

Author Michael W. Ford has written on Lucifer as a "mask" of the Adversary, a motivator and illuminating force of the mind and subconscious.

Luciferianism is a belief system that venerates the essential characteristics that are affixed to Lucifer. The tradition, influenced by Gnosticism, usually reveres Lucifer not as the Devil, but as a liberator or guiding spirit (often associated with the Greek Prometheus) or even the true god as opposed to Jehovah.

Gallery[link]

See also[link]

Christianity

Devil

Earendel

Eosphoros

Inferno (Dante), the first of the three canticas of Divine Comedy

Luceafăr

Lucifer in popular culture

War in Heaven

References[link]

Further reading[link]

Campbell, Joseph (1972). ''Myths To Live By''. A Condor Book: Souvenir Press (Educational & Academic) Ltd. ISBN 0-285-64731-8

External links[link]

Jewish Encyclopedia: Lucifer

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name	Alan Parsons
background	solo_singer
birth date	December 20, 1948
Birth place	London, England
genre	Rock
occupation	Audio engineer, composer, musician, record producer, director
years active	1967–present
label	Legacy, Arista, Fox, Mercury, Frontiers
associated acts	The Alan Parsons Project
website	Alan Parsons Music
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Alan Parsons (born 20 December 1948) is a British audio engineer, musician, and record producer. He was involved with the production of several significant albums, including The Beatles' ''Abbey Road'' and ''Let It Be'', as well as Pink Floyd's ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' for which Pink Floyd credit him as an important contributor. Parsons' own group, The Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have also been successful commercially.

Career [link]

In October 1967, at age 18, Parsons went to work as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road Studios, where he earned his first credit on the LP ''Abbey Road''. He became a regular there, engineering such projects as Paul McCartney's ''Wild Life'' and ''Red Rose Speedway'', five albums by The Hollies, and Pink Floyd’s ''The Dark Side of the Moon'', for which he received his first Grammy Award nomination. He was known for doing more than what would normally be considered the scope of a recording engineer’s duties. He considered himself to be a recording director, likening his contribution to recordings to what Stanley Kubrick contributed to film. This is apparent in his work with Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat", where Parsons added the saxophone part and transformed the original folk concept into the jazz-influenced ballad that put Al Stewart onto the charts. It is also heard in Parsons' influence on the Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and "The Air That I Breathe", sharp departures from their popular 1960s hits "Stay", "Just One Look", "Stop! Stop! Stop!" or "Bus Stop". Parsons was also known to have swapped shifts during the engineering of ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' so he could work entirely on the project.

Parsons also produced three albums by Pilot, a Scottish pop rock band consisting of Ian Bairnson on guitar, Stuart Tosh on drums, and David Paton on lead vocals, guitars,bass and William (Billy) Lyall, on piano and keys. Their hits included "January" and "Magic".

He also mixed the debut album by the American band Ambrosia and produced their second album ''Somewhere I've Never Travelled''. Alan was nominated for grammys for both of these albums.

In 1975, he declined Pink Floyd's invitation to come back and work on the follow-up for "Dark Side," ''Wish You Were Here'', and instead initiated The Alan Parsons Project with producer and songwriter (and occasional singer) Eric Woolfson, whom he had met at Abbey Road. The Project consisted of a revolving group of studio musicians and vocalists, most notably the members of Pilot and (on the first album) the members of Ambrosia. Unlike most rock groups, The Alan Parsons Project never performed live during its heyday, although it did release several music videos. Its only live performance during its original incarnation was in 1990, with Woolfson present but behind the scenes. After releasing ten albums, the last in 1987, the Project terminated in 1990 after Parsons and Woolfson split, with the Project's intended 11th album released that year as a Woolfson solo album. Parsons continued to release work in his own name and in collaboration with other musicians. Parsons and his band now regularly tour many parts of the world.

Although an accomplished vocalist, keyboardist, bassist, guitarist and flautist, Parsons only sang infrequent and incidental parts on his albums. While his keyboard playing was very audible on the Alan Parsons Project albums, very few recordings feature his flute. During the late 1990s, Parsons' career travelled an interesting full circle. Having started out in the music industry at the Abbey Road Studios in London as an assistant engineer in the late 1960s, he briefly returned to run the studio in its entirety. He reportedly managed to combine this role with the demands of a hectic performing and recording schedule. Parsons also continued with his selective production work for other bands.

Of all his collaborations, guitarist Ian Bairnson worked with Parsons the longest, including Parsons' post-Woolfson albums, ''Try Anything Once'', ''On Air'', and ''The Time Machine.''

As well as receiving gold and platinum awards from many nations, Parsons has received ten Grammy Award nominations for engineering and production. In 2007 he received a nomination for Best Surround Sound Album for ''A Valid Path.''

In May 2005, Parsons appeared at the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills, California, to mix front-of-house sound for Southern California-based Pink Floyd tribute band Which One’s Pink? and their performance of ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' in its entirety.

Since 2003 he has toured under a revised name, The Alan Parsons ''Live'' Project (with Woolfson’s permission). The globe-trotting band features guitarist Godfrey Townsend, drummer Steve Murphy, keyboardist Manny Focarazzo, and bass guitarist John Montagna. The 2004–2005 shows offered vocalist P. J. Olsson's track "More Lost Without You", while the later 2006 shows presented The Crystal Method-featured "We Play the Game" and opened with "Return to Tunguska" along with successes spanning the Project years.

Beginning in 2001 and extending for four years, Parsons conceived and led a Beatles tribute show called ''A Walk Down Abbey Road'' featuring a group of headlining performers such as Todd Rundgren, Ann Wilson of Heart, John Entwistle of The Who, and Jack Bruce of Cream. The show structure included a first set where all musicians assembled to perform each others' hits, and a second set featuring all Beatles songs.

In 2010, Alan Parsons released his single "All Our Yesterdays" through Authentik Artists. Parsons also launched a DVD educational series in 2010 titled The Art and Science of Sound Recording ("ASSR") on music production and the complete audio recording process. The single "All Our Yesterdays" was written and recorded during the making of ASSR. The series, narrated by Billy Bob Thornton, gives detailed tutorials on virtually every aspect of the sound recording process. Individual sections of the series are also being released in batches and are available to stream or download at www.artandscienceofsound.com.

During 2010, several media reports, one of which included a quote from a representative of Parsons, alleged that the song "Need You Now" by country music group Lady Antebellum possessed the melody and arrangement of "Eye in the Sky."

In 2011 it was announced that Parsons was creating and producing a new group called the Subclones. Parsons said: "I feel that the public deserves some genuinely innovative music and It's been a long time since I've heard some that truly excites me – it made me want to get back into the studio and do another 'Dark Side'." Parsons jokingly refers to one of the biggest-selling and most popular albums in history.

Personal life[link]

Parsons was born in London. He resides in Santa Barbara, California with his wife and her two daughters, as well as numerous pets.

Discography [link]

Studio albums[link]

with The Alan Parsons Project:

*''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'' (1976)

*''I Robot'' (1977)

*''Pyramid'' (1978)

*''Eve'' (1979)

*''The Turn of a Friendly Card'' (1980)

*''Eye in the Sky'' (1982)

*''Ammonia Avenue'' (1984)

*''Vulture Culture'' (1985)

*''Stereotomy'' (1985)

*''Gaudi'' (1987)

as a solo artist:

*''Try Anything Once'' (1993)

*''On Air'' (1996)

*''The Time Machine'' (1999)

*''A Valid Path'' (2004)

Full discography[link]

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	November 1980		''The Turn of a Friendly Card''		Arista		13		US
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	February 1984		''Ammonia Avenue''		Arista		15		US	style="text-align:left;"
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	November 1985		''Stereotomy''		Arista		43		US	style="text-align:left;"
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	1988		''The Best of the Alan Parsons Project, Vol. 2''		Arista		–		–	style="text-align:left;"
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	1990		''Freudiana''		EMI		–		–	style="text-align:left;"
	9 October 1989		''Pop Classics''		Arista		–		–	style="text-align:left;"
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	15 April 1999		''Sound Check 2''			–		–
	27 July 1999		''Master Hits - The Alan Parsons Project''			–		–
	2 August 1999		''Alan Parsons Project - Greatest Hits Live''			–		–
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	9 May 2000		''Alan Parsons Project - Gold Collection''		BMG International		–		–	style="text-align:left;"
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	1 June 2004		''Extended Versions: The iEncore Collection Live''			–		–
	2006		''Days Are Numbers (3 CD Compilation)''		Arista		–		–		88697016972
	1969		''Abbey Road'' (The Beatles)			1		UKUS
	1970		''Atom Heart Mother'' (Pink Floyd)			155		UKUS
	1973		''The Dark Side of the Moon'' (Pink Floyd)			21		UKUS
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	1976		''Year of the Cat'' (Al Stewart)			5		US
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	1976		''Year of the Cat'' (Al Stewart)			5		US
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	1978		''Time Passages'' (Al Stewart)			10		US
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	1985		''Ladyhawke'' (OST by Andrew Powell)		Atlantic Records	style="text-align:left;"
	6 October 1993		''Try Anything Once''		Arista		–		–	style="text-align:left;"
	27 June 1995		''The Very Best Live''		RCA		–		–	style="text-align:left;"
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	6 April 2010		''Eye 2 Eye: Live In Madrid''		Frontiers		–		–	style="text-align:left;"
	1999		''Turning the Tide'' (Iconic Phare)		Carrera Records		–		–

''Billboard'' Top 40 hit singles (U.S.) [link]

: No. 37 – "(The System Of) Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether" (1976) : No. 36 – "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" (1977) : No. 27 – "Damned if I Do" (1979) : No. 16 – "Games People Play" (1980) : No. 15 – "Time" (1981) : No. 3 – "Eye in the Sky" (1982) : No. 15 – "Don't Answer Me" (1984)

Canadian singles [link]

: No. 62 – "(The System Of) Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether" (1976) : No. 22 – "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" (1977) : No. 16 – "Damned if I Do" (1980) : No. 9 – "Games People Play" (1981) : No. 30 – "Time" (1981) : No. 1 – "Eye in the Sky" (1982) : No. 43 – "You Don't Believe" (1983) : No. 20 – "Don't Answer Me" (1984) : No. 89 – "Let's Talk About Me" (1985)

Awards and nominations [link]

Nominations[link]

1973 – Pink Floyd – ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' – Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

1976 – Ambrosia – ''Somewhere I've Never Travelled'' – Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

1976 – The Alan Parsons Project – ''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'' – Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

1978 – The Alan Parsons Project – ''Pyramid'' – Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

1979 – ''Ice Castles'' – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media

1979 – The Alan Parsons Project – ''Eve'' – Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

1981 – The Alan Parsons Project – ''The Turn of a Friendly Card'' – Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

1982 – The Alan Parsons Project – ''Eye in the Sky'' – Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

1986 – The Alan Parsons Project – "Where's The Walrus?" – Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance

2007 – Alan Parsons – ''A Valid Path'' – Grammy Award for Best Surround Sound Album

References [link]

Official website of the Alan Parsons Project

The Avenue, The Official Alan Parsons Fan Club

External links [link]

Alan Parsons Music Official Site

Alan Parsons Project Official Site

Alan Parsons in the Internet Movie Data Base

''Crawdaddy!'' "Parsons Knows: The Tale of Alan Parsons and Edgar Allan Poe"

The Subclones, Parsons new group

Category:English record producers Category:English rock musicians Category:British audio engineers Category:British soft rock musicians Category:People from London Category:British expatriates in the United States Category:1948 births Category:Living people

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