![]() ![]() That was no small feat for an ambitious prog-rock opus in the pop-and-disco-dominated days of 1977. 38 placing of the Poe-based Tales of Mystery and Imagination on the Billboard 200 by hitting No. I Robot (not to be confused, for legal purposes, with Asimov's I, Robot, though the author gave the Project's project his blessing) bested the No. So the second album by the progressive-rock "group" - in actuality producer-engineer Parsons, chief songwriter-executive producer Eric Woolfson, and a rotating cast of musicians and vocalists - was inspired by the writing of Isaac Asimov and explored artificial intelligence in a sci-fi landscape. How to follow an art-rock concept album based on the macabre tales of nineteenth-century author Edgar Allan Poe? For The Alan Parsons Project, the answer was apparently a simple one: look forward rather than back.
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