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Alan Parsons – from the rooftop of Savile Row to Pink Floyd, Steve Harley and some singing pigs

The teenage Alan Parsons was hired as a tape op by EMI and worked with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Steve Harley, orchestras, comedians, Pinky And Perky and countless others in the control room at Abbey Road, and saw almost 60 years of technical revolution. He’s just finished a 50th anniversary box set of Harley’s the Best Years Of Our Lives and talks here from his Santa Monica home studio about … … the things you find buried in old recordings. … how AI will allow anyone to remix their favourite record. … the miraculous transformation of Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) from a vindictive dirge…

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