The Alan Parsons Project / Eye in the Sky 35th anniversary box set

Lavish box • Two discs of unreleased audio • 5.1 blu-ray • 2LP vinyl 

Sony’s Legacy Recordings will later this year reissue a 35th Anniversary Collector’s Edition of The Alan Parsons Project‘s 1982 album Eye in the Sky.

This new celebratory box set of The Alan Parsons Project’s sixth studio album will feature in total three CDs of audio, two vinyl LPs (half-speed mastered and cut at 45RPM), a 5.1 Surround Mix on blu-ray audio (only with a hi-res stereo version of the original mix) a flexi-disc, a 60-page Book, and a 1982 replica poster.

One of the highlights for fans is sure to be CD 2 which presents Eric Woolfson’s never before released ‘songwriting diaries’. Eric’s daughter, Sally Woolfson, says “The songwriting diary disc is a very special element of this package. This shows Eric’s private moments of creativity captured on tape as songwriting memos to himself. As he didn’t read or write annotated music, this was how he developed the songs he wrote. They give a wonderful fly on the wall insight into the creative process where you can literally hear the song evolve as the ideas come out of his head. These are very precious to the family and it was extremely difficult to pick out the tracks to include in this box set from the hours and hours of material we had for this album alone. We’ve tried to illustrate the creative progression where a number of tracks for the same song have been included. We hope the fans will enjoy this rare insight into the birth of the songs from the ‘Eye in the Sky’ album.”

In addition to all that CD 3 offers a further 15 previously unreleased outtakes, demos and rough mixes along with some rare single edits.

Alan Parsons himself says “audiophiles will be pleased to know that there is a brand new 5.1 Surround Sound mix, which I am extremely pleased with incidentally, and also a Hi Def stereo version taken from the original analog stereo master tape which was recorded simultaneously alongside the digital mix”.

The 60-page hardback book features newly-written essays, previously unreleased images recently discovered in Eric Woolfson’s personal archive and new interviews with many of the musicians who recorded the tracks on the album. The outer slipcase features a gold-foil Eye of Horus stamp on the front.

The 35th anniversary collector’s edition of Eye in the Sky will be released on 17 November 2017. Best price right now is Amazon Italy where the box is £70.

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CD1 Original Album & Expanded Bonus Tracks (originally released 2007)

• 1. Sirius
• 2. Eye In The Sky
• 3. Children Of The Moon
• 4. Gemini
• 5. Silence And I
• 6. You’re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned
• 7. Psychobabble
• 8. Mammagamma
• 9. Step By Step
• 10. Old And Wise

Bonus Tracks

• 11. Sirius (Demo)
• 12. Old And Wise (Eric Woolfson Vocal)
• 13. Any Other Day (Studio Demo)
• 14. Silence And I (Eric Woolfson Vocal)
• 15. The Naked Eye
• 16. Eye Pieces (Classical Naked Eye)

CD2 – Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diaries 
(Previously Unreleased)

• 1. Eye in the Sky (Eric’s Songwriting Diary 1)
• 2. Eye in the Sky (Eric’s Songwriting Diary 2)
• 3. Eye in the Sky (Eric’s Songwriting Diary 3)
• 4. Eye in the Sky (Eric’s Songwriting Diary 4)
• 5. Children of the Moon (Eric’s Songwriting Diary 1)
• 6. Children of the Moon (Eric’s Songwriting Diary 2)
• 7. Gemini (Eric’s Songwriting Diary 1)
• 8. Gemini (Eric’s Songwriting Diary 2)
• 9. Gemini (Eric’s Songwriting Diary 3)
• 10. Gemini & Silence and I (Eric’s Songwriting Diary)
• 11. Silence and I (Eric’s Songwriting Diary)
• 12. Cooper’s Theme/ Silence and I chord beginnings (Eric’s Songwriting Diary)
• 13. Cooper’s Theme/ Silence and I beginnings (Eric’s Songwriting Diary)
• 14. Silence and I/ Fly Away (Eric’s Songwriting Diary 1)
• 15. Silence and I/ Fly Away (Eric’s Songwriting Diary 2)
• 16. Old and Wise (Eric’s Songwriting Diary 1)
• 17. Old and Wise (Eric’s Songwriting Diary 2)
• 18. Old and Wise (Eric’s Songwriting Diary 3)

CD3 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED BONUS MATERIAL & Single Edits

• 1. Eye In The Sky (Ian 12-string Acoustic Guitar Out Take)
• 2. Sirius and Eye In The Sky (Early Rough Mix)
• 3. Eye In The Sky (Eric Demo Verses – No Lyrics)
• 4. Children Of The Moon (12-string Acoustic Guitar & Marching Band Snare Drum)
• 5. Children Of The Moon (Early Rough Mix With Eric Demo Vocal)
• 6. Gemini (Chris Rainbow Vocal Harmonies)
• 7. Silence And I (Orchestral Take With Eric Demo Vocal)
• 8. You’re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned (Rough Mix Section – Different Guitar Solo)
• 9. You’re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned (Rough Mix with Alan Demo Vocal – Few Lyrics)
• 10. Psychobabble (Orchestral Take)
• 11. Psychobabble (Rough Mix With Eric Demo Vocal)
• 12. Step By Step (12-string Acoustic Guitars)
• 13. Step By Step (Rough Mix Backing Track – Extended Intro)
• 14. Old and Wise (Chris Rainbow Beach Boys Experiment)
• 15. Old & Wise (Eric Piano Track)
• 16. Eye in the Sky (Single Edit)
• 17. Old and Wise (Single Edit)
• 18. Psychobabble (Single Edit)

DISC 4 (BLU-RAY) 

5.1 Surround Sound Mix (2017)

Stereo HD version (1982)

• 1. Sirius
• 2. Eye In The Sky
• 3. Children Of The Moon
• 4. Gemini
• 5. Silence And I
• 6. You’re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned
• 7. Psychobabble
• 8. Mammagamma
• 9. Step By Step
• 10. Old And Wise

VINYL (at 45 rpm)

Vinyl 1 Side 1

• Sirius
• Eye In The Sky
• Children Of The Moon

Vinyl 1 Side 2

• Gemini
• Silence And I

Vinyl 2 Side 1

• You’re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned
• Psychobabble

Vinyl 2 Side 2

• Mammagamma
• Step By Step
• Old & Wise

FLEXIDISC

Excerpts from Eye in the Sky:-

• Sirius
• Eye in the Sky
• Psychobabble
• Old and Wise