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Eve (The Alan Parsons Project album)

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Released
  
27 August 1979

Length
  
39:23

Release date
  
27 August 1979

Label
  
Arista Records

Studio
  
Super Bear Studios

Artist
  
The Alan Parsons Project

Producer
  
Alan Parsons

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Recorded
  
December 1978 – June 1979

Eve (1979)
  
The Turn of a Friendly Card (1980)

Genres
  
Progressive rock, Pop rock

Similar
  
The Alan Parsons Project albums, Progressive rock albums

Eve is the fourth studio album by progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project. It was released in 1979. Eve's focus is on the strengths and characteristics of women, and the problems they face in the world of men. The album had originally been intended to focus on "great women in history", but evolved into a wider concept. The album features several songs from a misogynist point of view, unusual for an Alan Parsons Project album.

Contents

Eve is The Alan Parsons Project's first album with singer Chris Rainbow. The album's opening instrumental "Lucifer" was a major hit in Europe, and "Damned If I Do" reached the US Top 30. "Lucifer" also is used as title track for the German political TV show Monitor.

The alan parsons project eve full album


Track listing

All songs written and composed by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.

Eve was remastered and reissued in 2008 with the following bonus tracks:

  1. "Elsie's Theme from 'The Sicilian Defence' (the Project that never was)"
  2. "Lucifer" (demo)
  3. "Secret Garden" (early rough mix)
  4. "Damned If I Do" (rough mix)
  5. "Don't Hold Back" (vocal rehearsal rough mix)
  6. "Lucifer" (early rough mix)
  7. "If I Could Change Your Mind" (rough mix)

Personnel

  • Bass – David Paton
  • Drums and Percussion – Stuart Elliott
  • Acoustic and Electric Guitars – Ian Bairnson
  • Keyboards – Eric Woolfson; Duncan Mackay
  • Miscellaneous Instrumental Contributions by Alan Parsons; Eric Woolfson
  • Backing Vocals – Chris Rainbow; David Paton
  • Orchestra – The Orchestra Of The Munich Chamber Opera
  • The Orchestra of the Munich Chamber Opera care of Eberhard Schoener
  • Leader – Sandor Farcas
  • Orchestra Coordinator – Curtis Briggs
  • Trivia Consultants – Shapiro and Steinberg
  • Vocals – Lesley Duncan; David Paton; Chris Rainbow; Clare Torry; Dave Townsend; Lenny Zakatek

    • Produced and engineered by Alan Parsons
    Mastered by Chris Blair [UK], Wally Traugott [USA]
    Executive Production: Eric Woolfson

    Cover art

    The cover art for Eve by Hipgnosis features two women wearing veils, with their faces partially in shadow. The image wraps around from left side of the front cover to the back. Two of the women are shown on the front cover, with the third on the back. On the shaded part of each woman's face, the shadows and veils partially conceal disfiguring scars and sores.

    Songs

    1Lucifer5:06
    2You Lie Down With Dogs3:48
    3I'd Rather Be a Man3:54

    References

    Eve (The Alan Parsons Project album) Wikipedia
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