Eye in the Sky - Alan Parsons Project cover

Eye in the Sky Alan Parsons Project cover
Cover by Daniel Ichbiah – The guitar solo is done by Dominique Dumont

Facts about the song :
Eye in the Sky was the most successful song the Alan Parsons Project ever had and was their only US Top 10 hit - they had eight Top 40 entries from 1976 to 1984. It is their most-played song in concert since the group began performing in the '90s.
On June 27th 1982, "Eye In The Sky" by the Alan Parsons Project entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #85; and on October 10th, 1982 it peaked at #3 (for 3 weeks) and spent almost a half-year on the Top 100 (25 weeks, and for 8 of those 25 weeks it was on the Top 10). And on October 2nd, 1982 it reached #1 (for 1 week) on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart...
Lead vocals were from Eric Woolfson, Parsons' main collaborator. He was Parsons' lyricist and manager.
According to Eric Woolfson's site, he wrote 95% of the music and 100% of the lyrics.
Eric - songwriting (music and lyrics). Sang vocals on the demos.
Alan - Production and engineering. Picked the vocalists. Played a bit of guitar, keys, and probabl some back-up vocals.
The Alan Parsons Project, which was strictly a studio group at the time, used various members on lead vocals; Woolfson would usually record a guide vocal and Alan Parsons, who was also the group's producer, would decide whose voice best suited the song. In later years, Parsons toured with a band and sang this song during performances.
The lush sound Parsons created on this song is something he learned from his years as a sound engineer. He worked on some seminal albums, including Abbey Road by The Beatles and Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd.
Parsons didn't think highly of this song and had to be convinced to put it on the album. As Woolfson told it, he and the other musicians loved the song, but Parsons thought so little of it that he bet their guitarist Ian Bairnson that it would not be a hit.
The cover art to the album Eye in the Sky - this song is the title track - has the famous Egyptian symbol of the eye of Horus. Horus was one of the bird-headed Egyptian gods, with the head of a falcon. The eye symbol itself - in ironic contradiction to the lyrics - meant protection, power, and health.

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