ALAN PARSONS

Q: WHAT’S ONE PIECE OF HARDWARE YOU USE NOW THAT YOU WISH YOU COULD HAVE HAD WHEN YOU WERE MAKING MUSIC WITH THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT?

—GEORG GRECH

I would’ve been incredibly happy to have had the editing capability of digital recording. It was pretty primitive back then. You were literally cutting tape with scissors and sticking masking tape on. There was also no “undo” button back then. If you recorded over or erased something, it was gone forever. We live in a very safe environment now in the digital age.

Q: Were Alan Parsons Project albums envisioned as concept albums, or was the concept applied later to the selected songs?

—Jacob Leibeck

Concept albums became a little unfashionable over the years, but we were there from the beginning, so I never felt guilty about making them. Generally, by the time we had written three or four songs we knew what the concept was going to be. The new album is no exception. It has a very strong magic theme. I’ve always been a budding magician. It’s been a passion