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Ian Bairnson
John "Ian" Bairnson (3 August 1953 – 7 April 2023) was a Scottish musician and member of Pilot and the Alan Parsons Project. He was a multi-instrumentalist, who played saxophone and keyboards, but mainly performed as a guitarist, which he played with a sixpence. In addition to his work with Parsons, Bairnson played guitar on four Kate Bush albums, including the guitar solo on her 1978 debut single, "Wuthering Heights". Early life Bairnson was born in Lerwick, Shetland, on 3 August 1953. He grew up in Levenwick, also in Shetland, before his family moved to Edinburgh, Midlothian, when he was nine years old, following the death of his father. Bairnson learned how to play the guitar when he was six. Pilot and the Alan Parsons Project He was a session guitarist before joining up in 1973 with former Bay City Rollers musicians David Paton and Billy Lyall in the band Pilot, contributing the harmony guitar parts to their hit single " Magic". During this time with Pilot, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lerwick
Lerwick ( or ; ; ) is the main town and port of the Shetland archipelago, Scotland. Shetland's only burgh, Lerwick had a population of about 7,000 residents in 2010. It is the northernmost major settlement within the United Kingdom. Centred off the north coast of the Scottish mainland and on the east coast of the Shetland Mainland, Lerwick lies boxing the compass, north-by-northeast of Aberdeen; west of the similarly sheltered port of Bergen in Norway; and south east of Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands. One of the list of coastal weather stations of the United Kingdom, UK's coastal weather stations is situated there, with Lerwick#Climate, the local climate having small seasonal variation due to the maritime influence. Being located further north than Saint Petersburg and three of the four mainland Scandinavia, Nordic capitals, and on the same latitude as Anchorage, Alaska, Lerwick's nights in the middle of summer only get dark twilight and winters have below six hours of comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay City Rollers
The Bay City Rollers are a Scottish pop rock band known for their worldwide teen idol popularity, as a band in the 1970s. One of many 70s acts heralded as the "biggest group since the Beatles", they were called the "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh", and sold 5 million albums. Their classic line-up during their peak popularity, included guitarists Eric Faulkner and Stuart Wood (musician), Stuart Wood, singer Les McKeown, bassist Alan Longmuir and his younger brother Derek Longmuir on drums. The Bay City Rollers' first album, ''Rollin' (Bay City Rollers album), Rollin''' (1974) debuted atop the UK Albums Charts and spent a combined total of fifty-eight weeks on the UK Albums Chart. Their follow up studio album ''Once Upon a Star'' (1975) continued this success, again, debuting atop the UK Albums Chart. The album yielded the successful singles "Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby Goodbye), Bye, Bye, Baby", which topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia, and "Keep On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret (Alan Parsons Album)
''The Secret'' is the fifth solo album by English rock musician Alan Parsons. It was released on 26 April 2019 via Frontiers. Guest appearances include guitarist Steve Hackett on the first track, Jason Mraz singing on "Miracle", and Lou Gramm singing on "Sometimes". The roots of the song "I Can't Get There From Here" go back to the year 2002, when Alan Parsons was asked to do the music for the film "5-25-77" by Patrick Read Johnson. Despite Parsons' assertion in 2005 that the film would soon be finished, it took over ten years more until it was finally premiered. Track listing Adapted from ''Blabbermouth.net''. Personnel *Lead vocals: Jason Mraz, Lou Gramm, Alan Parsons, Todd Cooper, P. J. OlssonJordan Asher Huffman Jared Mahone, The Pillbugs, Mark Mikel *Additional vocals: Alan Parsons, Todd Cooper, Dan TraceyJordan Asher Huffman P. J. Olsson, Carl–Magnus "C-M" Carlsson, Andy Ellis, Doug Powell (musician, apologist), Doug Powell *Narration: Alan Parsons *Guitars: Steve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Time Machine (Alan Parsons Album)
''The Time Machine'' is the third solo album by English rock musician Alan Parsons. While the sound of this album is similar to some of the soft, ethereal tracks by the Alan Parsons Project, none of the writing or performance credits in the sleeve notes go to Alan Parsons, except for one short and simple instrumental part on "Temporalia" (the other instrumentals were written by drummer Stuart Elliott and guitarist Ian Bairnson), the Japanese bonus track "Beginnings" which also features his voice, and organ on "No Future in the Past"; his relation to the album is almost exclusively as producer. Concept The themes of time, time travel, and memory of the past had been suggested by Parsons as subject matter for the second Alan Parsons Project album, but writing partner Eric Woolfson favoured a purely futuristic theme of robotic beings eventually displacing the human race, which eventually resulted in the album '' I Robot''. "Temporalia" features a narration by professor Frank Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On Air (Alan Parsons Album)
''On Air'' is the second solo studio album by English rock musician Alan Parsons. The album's chief creative force was the Alan Parsons Project's long-time guitarist, Ian Bairnson. Its concept revolves around the history of airborne exploration. Musically, this album is somewhat different from '' Try Anything Once'' and the Alan Parsons Project albums, opting for more of a soft rock sound and a more stable band line-up rather than the funky rhythms, symphonic flares, or rotating vocalists of the past. Concept The album follows the history of airborne exploration, from the mythological flight of Daedalus and Icarus to escape the labyrinth of the Minotaur in "Too Close to the Sun", through Leonardo da Vinci's search to design a flying machine, or ornithopter, in long-time Project drummer Stuart Elliott's "One Day To Fly", until finally mankind's aspirations for space exploration placed on the shoulders of a single astronaut in "So Far Away" and the subsequent superpower ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Parsons Live
Alan Parsons Live is the first live album by Alan Parsons, recorded in May 1994 during his European tour, and released late that year by Arcade Records in Europe. RCA/BMG added three new studio tracks and changed the cover art when releasing the album in the rest of the world in 1995, renaming it The Very Best Live; stylized on the cover with "The Very Best" in a smaller font between Alan Parsons and Live. Despite the tour promoting ''Try Anything Once'' with seven songs from the album in the setlist, the live performances on the album are all songs from his years with The Alan Parsons Project. Project regulars Ian Bairnson, Andrew Powell, Stuart Elliott and Richard Cottle anchor the band with Parsons, Gary Howard (''Freudiana'') and ex-Manfred Mann's Earth Band vocalist Chris Thompson (''Try Anything Once'') providing vocals for the live tracks. The album is notable for instrumental track "Luciferama" (a blending of "Lucifer" and "Mammagamma" that first appeared on Andre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Try Anything Once
''Try Anything Once'' is the first solo album by Alan Parsons, released in 1993. It was his first album following the split of the Alan Parsons Project. This album features vocals by Ambrosia's David Pack, Jacqui Copland, former Mindbender and 10cc guitarist Eric Stewart, and Manfred Mann's Earth Band frontman Chris Thompson. The album features completely digital recording and mixing. It was recorded at Parson's first "Parsonics" studio in Sussex England with the orchestra recorded at Air Studios in London. There is an Easter egg inside the inlay. One of the pictures is a stereogram; when the viewer looks at it correctly, an image of a man and woman upside down will appear, similar to the other pictures in the album's artwork. This image is also on the CD itself. Track listing Personnel * Alan Parsons – synthesizer, acoustic guitar, bass, flute, background vocals, producer * Ian Bairnson – synthesizer, bass, guitar, pedal steel guitar, background vocals * Richard C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Robot (album)
''I Robot'' is the second studio album by British Rock music, rock band the Alan Parsons Project, released on 8 July 1977 by Arista Records. The album draws conceptually on author Isaac Asimov's science fiction Robot series, ''Robot'' stories, exploring philosophical themes regarding artificial intelligence. Background and concept The album was intended to be based on the ''I, Robot'' stories written by Asimov, and Eric Woolfson spoke with Asimov himself, who was enthusiastic about the idea. As the rights already had been granted to a TV/movie company, the album's title was altered slightly by removing the comma in "I," and the theme and lyrics were made to be more generically about robots rather than to be specific to the Asimov universe. The cover inlay reads: "I Robot... The story of the rise of the machine and the decline of human, man, which paradoxically coincided with his discovery of the wheel... and a warning that his brief dominance of Earth, this planet will probab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song
A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice. The voice often carries the melody (a series of distinct and fixed pitches) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs have a structure, such as the common ABA form, and are usually made of sections that are repeated or performed with variation later. A song without instruments is said to be a cappella. Written words created specifically for music, or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics. If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in the classical tradition, it is called an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs composed in a simple style that are learned informally by ear are often referred to as folk songs. Songs composed for the mass market, designed to be sung by professional singers who sell their recordings or live shows, are called popular songs. These songs, which have broad appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Tosh
Stuart Mcbeath Tosh (born 26 September 1948) is a Scottish drummer, songwriter and vocalist. He recorded and toured with a succession of bands during the 1970s and 1980s, including Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project, 10cc, Camel, and Roger Daltrey. Biography Tosh was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. He was a founding member of the 1970s band Pilot, who achieved commercial success in 1974 and 1975 with Magic and January respectively. The band split up in 1977, and Tosh rejoined again, from 2007 to 2015. From 1975 to 1977, Tosh contributed drums and percussion to tracks by The Alan Parsons Project. He served three tenures as drummer with the group 10cc (1977-1981, 1982-1983, 1993-1995), and played on all 10cc releases from Bloody Tourists (1978) onwards. In 1982, he briefly toured with the band Camel, which at some point also included other former Pilot members. Bands * Pilot (1973-1977, 2007-2015) * The Alan Parsons Project (1975-1977) * 10cc (1977-1981, 1982-1983, 1993-1995) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Parsons
Alan Parsons (born 20 December 1948) is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. Parsons was the sound engineer on albums including the Beatles' ''Abbey Road'' (1969) and '' Let It Be'' (1970), Pink Floyd's ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' (1973), and the eponymous debut album by Ambrosia in 1975. Parsons's own group, the Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have also been commercially successful. He has been nominated for 14 Grammy Awards, with his first win occurring in 2019 for Best Immersive Audio Album for '' Eye in the Sky'' (35th Anniversary Edition). Music career After getting a job working in the tape duplication department at EMI, Parsons heard the master tape for the Beatles' ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'', and decided to try talking his way into a job at Abbey Road Studios. In October 1967, at the age of 18, Parsons went to work as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road. He was a tape operator duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic (Pilot Song)
"Magic" is a 1974 song by Scottish pop rock band Pilot and was the first hit single for the group. It was written by band members David Paton and Billy Lyall for their debut album, '' From the Album of the Same Name''. Background According to Paton, the song is inspired by the sunrise on Blackford Hill in Edinburgh. In a 2012 interview with Hotdisc Television, Paton also stated that at the time, his wife said she had "never seen a daybreak", which also inspired the song. Personnel Pilot * David Paton – lead vocals, bass, electric guitar * Billy Lyall – keyboards, synthesizer, piano, backing vocals * Stuart Tosh – drums, backing vocals Additional personnel * Ian Bairnson – additional electric guitar (uncredited) Chart performance "Magic" charted most successfully in Canada, where it topped the ''RPM'' national singles chart on 19 July 1975, and received a gold certification. It climbed as far as number 11 on the UK Singles Chart and reached number 5 during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
