http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/arts/music/04woolfson-1.html?hpw Eric Woolfson, Co-Founder of Alan Parsons Project, Dies at 64
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: December 4, 2009
Eric Woolfson, a founder and the principal songwriter and vocalist of the Alan Parsons Project, a British group that existed only in the studio and that took its ambitious, sophisticated progressive rock to the pop charts, died on Wednesday in London. He was 64.
The cause was cancer, said his daughter Sally Seddon.
Mr. Woolfson, a songwriter and keyboardist, met Alan Parsons in the summer of 1974 while working as a session musician at Abbey Road Studios in London. He had recently branched out into management, and Mr. Parsons, an engineer and producer who had just completed work on Pink Floyd?s ?Dark Side of the Moon,? asked to be taken on as a client.
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: December 4, 2009
Eric Woolfson, a founder and the principal songwriter and vocalist of the Alan Parsons Project, a British group that existed only in the studio and that took its ambitious, sophisticated progressive rock to the pop charts, died on Wednesday in London. He was 64.
The cause was cancer, said his daughter Sally Seddon.
Mr. Woolfson, a songwriter and keyboardist, met Alan Parsons in the summer of 1974 while working as a session musician at Abbey Road Studios in London. He had recently branched out into management, and Mr. Parsons, an engineer and producer who had just completed work on Pink Floyd?s ?Dark Side of the Moon,? asked to be taken on as a client.