By 1979, I Was Obsessed with Alan Parsons
By the end of the 1970s, Alan Parsons wasn’t simply one of Dave’s favorite artists. It had become an obsession. In today's episode of Dave’s Side One, Dave closes out the week — The Records That Take Me Back — with The Alan Parsons Project’s Eve. The story begins with Dave’s best friend, who introduced him to Tales of Mystery and Imagination, I Robot and Pyramid. Something clicked. Dave estimates that through 1978 and 1979 he probably listened to one of those early Alan Parsons Project records every day. So when Eve arrived in 1979, there was no debate. Dave bought it and kept listening. The…
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