History Trivia / TheAlanParsonsProject

** Parsons with the unreleased ''The Sicilian Defence'', which was more or less a throwaway instrumental album that was intended to force their label's hand in an attempt to renegotiate their contract. While Parson's feelings toward ''The Sicilian Defence'' have softened after its release on ''The Complete Albums Collection'', he still maintains that the material falls short in comparison to their other works.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Music/IRobot'' was originally supposed to be based on the works of Creator/IsaacAsimov, ''Literature/IRobot'', but the rights to his "robot" novels were granted to a Tv/Movie company, so the original idea was scrapped. This is why the album name omits the comma between "I" and "Robot", to prevent running afoul of those other rights holders.

*** The reason why ''Vulture Culture'' doesn't have any orchestra on it is because Andrew Powell, who wrote and conducted the Project's orchestral arrangements, was busy making the score to ''Film/Ladyhawke''.

* ProductionPosse: Ian Bairnson, despite the [[RevolvingDoorBand regular use of session musicians,]] he was featured in every album and the most regular contributor to the project.

** ''Somebody Out There'' was inspired by an imposter passing off as Eric Woolfson and trying to obtain money from people on a scam related to luxury cars and yachts.

-->'''Dr. Evil''': Any ways, the key to this plan is the giant laser. It was invented by the noted Cambridge physicist Dr. Parsons. Therefore, we shall call it the Alan Parsons Project.\\

* BuryYourArt: The band recorded ''The Sicilian Defence'' in 1979 as an AshcanCopy while they were renegotiating their contract. They never intended to release the album and kept it in the vaults for nearly four decades. In 2008, a shortened version of [="P-QB4"=] titled "Elise's Theme" was included as a bonus track on the expanded edition of ''Eve'', and in 2014, the band finally released the full album as a bonus disc on the 2014 BoxedSet ''The Complete Albums Collection''.

* MissingEpisode: ''The Sicilian Defence'', an all-instrumental, atonal album the band recorded entirely for the purpose of getting out of their recording contract. After they submitted the album, they successfully renegotiated their contract. The album was not released, though one song was released as a bonus track to a reissue of ''Eve'' in 2008. In 2014, Parsons relented and it was released as a bonus CD for ''The Complete Albums Collection''.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: ''Somebody Out There'' was inspired by an imposter passing off as Eric Woolfson and trying to obtain money from people on a scam related to luxury cars and yachts.

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* SongAssociation: A lot of gamers are familiar with "I Wouldn't Wanna Be Like You" due to its inclusion in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''-especially as it plays in the GoldenEnding while [[spoiler:you drive Devin Weston to a cliff to kill him]].

* CreativeDifferences: The reason why ''The Project'' broke up in 1990 due to growing tensions with Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons.

** Most of the album ideas came from Woolfson's experiences, such as ''Ammonia Avenue'' being based off an ICI plant in Billingham, which also inspired the album title which came from a sign at the plant.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Eric Woolfson's growing prominence as a lead vocalist resulted from this. Parsons didn't like using him as a lead vocalist as he was not a trained singer, but the record company were quick to notice that whenever he sang lead, the song was a hit...and so insisted he sing on more tracks.

* AshcanCopy: ''The Sicilian Defense'' which was finally released on ''The Complete Albums Collection''. Further details are under Creator Backlash below.

** Parsons with the unreleased ''The Sicilian Defense'', which was more or less a throwaway instrumental album that was intended to force their label's hand in an attempt to renegotiate their contract. While Parson's feelings toward ''The Sicilian Defense'' have softened after its release on ''The Complete Albums Collection'', he still maintains that the material falls short in comparison to their other works.

* MissingEpisode: ''The Sicilian Defense'', an all-instrumental, atonal album the band recorded entirely for the purpose of getting out of their recording contract. After they submitted the album, they successfully renegotiated their contract. The album was not released, though one song was released as a bonus track to a reissue of ''Eve'' in 2008. In 2014, Parsons relented and it was released as a bonus CD for ''The Complete Albums Collection''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Music/IRobot'' was originally supposed to be based on the works of Creator/IsaacAsimov, ''Literature/IRobot'', but the rights to his "robot" novels were granted to a Tv/Movie company, so the original idea was scrapped.

* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did the cover art for the first five albums.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Arthur Brown of "Fire" fame sings on "The Tell Tale Heart".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "I Robot" was originally supposed to be based on the works of Creator/IsaacAsimov but the rights to his "robot" novels were granted to a Tv/Movie company, so the original idea was scrapped.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "I Robot" was originally supposed to be based on the works of Creator/IsaacAsimov but the rights to his "robot" novels were granted to a Tv/Movie company, so the original idea was scrapped.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "I Robot" was originally supposed to be based on the works of Creator/IsaacAsimov but the rights to his "robot" novels were granted to Tv/Movie company, so the original idea was scrapped.

* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did the cover art for the first five albums.