Production legend Alan Parsons on 10 career-defining records

<p><img src="http://cdn.mos.musicradar.com/images/features/alan-parsons-career-defining/parsons-opener-cropped-corbis-460-100-200-70.jpg" width="200" alt=""></p><p><strong>During his 40-year-plus career as producer, engineer and artist, Alan Parsons has sat on both sides of the studio glass on projects that have sold in the tens of millions. But when the production legend joined the staff of EMI Studios (soon to be renamed Abbey Road) in 1968 at the age of 19, his duties included little more than logging tapes and keeping artists' tea cups filled.</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal">"Oh, yes, if you were a tape op, making tea was part of your job," Parsons says. "Abbey Road had a very effective training scheme, where people started at the bottom, carrying tapes from room to room and eventually becoming second engineer, engineer and so on. Some people went from the tape library to disc cutting, but I managed to skip that step."</p> <a href="http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/production-legend-alan-parsons-on-10-career-defining-records-566149">Read more about Production legend Alan Parsons on 10 career-defining records at MusicRadar.com</a><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/673/f/8601/s/24e86361/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&title=Production+legend+Alan+Parsons+on+10+career-defining+records&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.musicradar.com%2Fnews%2Fguitars%2Fproduction-legend-alan-parsons-on-10-career-defining-records-566149" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Production+legend+Alan+Parsons+on+10+career-defining+records&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.musicradar.com%2Fnews%2Fguitars%2Fproduction-legend-alan-parsons-on-10-career-defining-records-566149" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/148658235125/u/49/f/8601/c/673/s/24e86361/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/148658235125/u/49/f/8601/c/673/s/24e86361/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/148658235125/u/49/f/8601/c/673/s/24e86361/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/musicradar/all/news/~4/5wjtD2e_V6Y" height="1" width="1"/>







Production legend Alan Parsons on 10 career-defining records