On June 1, 1977, “Arista” label released “I Robot”, the second Alan Parsons Project (The), studio album. It was recorded December 1976 – March 1977, at “Abbey Road Studios” in London, and was produced by Alan Parsons. The album cover photo features Storm Thorgerson’s assistants in the escalator tubes of the circular Terminal 1 building of the “Charles de Gaulle Airport” outside of Paris
Personnel:
- Alan Parsons – keyboards, vocoder, acoustic guitar, backing vocals, engineer
- Ian Bairnson – acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals
- B.J. Cole – steel guitar
- Eric Woolfson – keyboards, vocoder, backing vocals
- Duncan Mackay – keyboards
- John Leach – cimbalom, kantele
- David Paton – bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
- Stuart Tosh – drums, percussion, backing vocals
- Lenny Zakatek, Allan Clarke, Steve Harley, Jack Harris, Peter Straker, Jaki Whitren, Dave Townsend, the English Chorale, the New Philharmonia Chorus – vocals
- Hilary Western – backing vocals
- Smokey Parsons – backing vocals
- Tony Rivers, John Perry and Stu Calver – backing vocals
- Andrew Powell – choir and orchestra arrangements
- Eric Woolfson – executive producer
Track listing:
All tracks by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, except where noted.
- I Robot
- I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You
- Some Other Time
- Breakdown
- Don’t Let it Snow
- The Voice
- Nucleus
- Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)
- Total Eclipse – Andrew Powell
- Genesis Ch. 1V. 32
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