"Prime Time" (lead vocal Eric Woolfson) "Let Me Go Home" (lead vocal Lenny Zakatek) "One Good Reason" (lead vocal Eric Woolfson) "Since the Last Goodbye" (lead vocal Chris Rainbow) "Don't Answer Me" (lead vocal Eric Woolfson) "Dancing on a Highwire" (lead vocal Colin Blunstone) "You Don't Believe" (lead vocal Lenny Zakatek) "Pipeline" (instrumental) "Ammonia Avenue" (lead vocal Eric Woolfson) All tracks written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson. Alan Parsons -- keyboards, programming, vocals Ian Bairnson -- acoustic guitar, guitar, electric guitar Colin Blunstone -- vocals Mel Collins -- synthesizer, saxophone Stuart Elliott -- percussion, drums David Paton -- bass, guitar, vocals Chris Rainbow -- vocals Eric Woolfson -- keyboards, vocals Lenny Zakatek -- vocals The Philharmonia Orchestra leader -- Christopher Warren-Green Released 7 February 1984 Recorded Mid 1982-Late 1983 Abbey Road Studios Label Arista Producer Alan Parsons Ammonia Avenue is the seventh studio album by The Alan Parsons Project, released in 1984. It is one of the band's biggest-selling albums, carrying an RIAA certification of gold. The Phil Spector-influenced million-selling smash hit "Don't Answer Me" was Ammonia Avenue's lead single; it reached the Top 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts as well as the fourth position on the Adult contemporary chart. The single also reached the Top 20 in several countries and represents the last big hit for the Alan Parsons Project. "Prime Time" was a follow-up release that fared well in the top 40. "Since The Last Goodbye" and "You Don't Believe" were also minor hits. Music videos for "Don't Answer Me" and "Prime Time" were produced in 1984, the former with art and animation by MW Kaluta. The latter video is inspired by John Collier's story "Evening Primrose". The title of the album was inspired by Eric Woolfson's visit to Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) in Billingham, England, where the first thing he saw was a street with miles of pipes, no people, no trees and a sign that said 'Ammonia Avenue'. The album focuses on the possible misunderstanding of industrial scientific developments from a public perspective and a lack of understanding of the public from a scientific perspective.

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