Words from a Disciple...
In Popular Music, there are Lyrics, and then, there are mysteriously pursued, yet divinely arranged Words, as to express a subject’s, or character’s, innermost thoughts, feelings, emotions or idea, as it is allowed, (almost bestowed upon) a vocalist to utter upon the hearts & ears of the world.

As the “other half” of The Alan Parsons Project, the name Eric Woolfson might not reside on the tongues of many music fans, but his ideas, lyrics AND voice have pretty much run its course up & down Billboard’s charts. “Games People Play”, “Eye in the Sky”, “Don’t Answer Me” and “Time” are just a few songs still played on radio stations, as well as performed by other artists.

In my youth and formative years, The Alan Parsons Project supplied me with mysteries & reverance, that would follow me thru til this very day. Where one half of me was wildly taken by the musical arrangements & technology of each album (Alan Parsons), my other half would follow each word, line, song into another world, thru themes, concepts, thoughts & ideas. To me, this was the true definition of Collaboration, as I would listen to each album (much as I still do now) and let my mind & thoughts wander thru the lives of each character. These were Concept Albums, with or without guidelines that delved into the mind’s, lives & themes of Edgar Allen Poe, Antonio Gaudi, Sigmund Freud… gamblers, lovers, lonesome survivors, lunatics and machines.

It seemed fitting, almost an appropriate next step, that after APP, Woolfson would go on to create stage / theatre versions of his characters and themes. This, to me, separated him from all others that ever existed in the music industry, because it not only filled my mind with inspiration, but it seemed like a risk and a chance that could go either way… as he explained in 2004 in MusicalWorld

" I used to work in a publishing company with 2 unkown other writers, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, this was in the sixties. Andrew and Tim quickly realised that to get there songs recorded, they needed a vehicle and they developed the stagemusical. I eventually developed the Alan Parsons Project as a vehicle but then I reallised that there was more to it than that and that Andrew Lloyd Webber was right and that the stagemusical was a fullfilling media for a writer like myself. I got into stagemusicals in the mid-eighties. "