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Artist News: Eric Woolfson Passes Away At Age 64

Posted on Thursday, December 31 @ 02:46:31 UTC by nightowl

While researching um... prog obits for my blog (how morbid, I know), I came across the news that Eric Woolfson, of the Alan Parson's Project, passed away on December 3.

Here is the posting at Rolling Stone: "Eric Woolfson, the co-founder of the British prog rock band the Alan Parsons Project, died of cancer this week in London at the age of 64, THR [The Hollywood Reporter] writes. Woolfson had a role in the band?s biggest songs, "Don?t Answer Me" and "Eye In The Sky,? a track which received even greater exposure as the intro music for the Chicago Bulls during the Michael Jordan era."



"Alan Parsons reacted on his website to the death of Eric Woolfson, his partner in the British progressive rock group the Alan Parsons Project. Woolfson died of cancer Wednesday at 64," writes Keith Thursby at The LA Times website. "'"Eric was one of the most generous, musically gifted and knowledgeable people I ever met. He was also -- and I mean no disrespect -- the most stubborn individual to set foot on the planet, a trait which made him a great businessman," Parsons wrote.

"The Alan Parsons Project was no run-of-the-mill band. Not many groups debut with an album based on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. But that was the theme for Tales Of Mystery And Imagination."

[What comes to mind is one of my favorite APP songs, "Time," and the lyric "Time, flowing like a river / Time, beckoning me / Who knows when we shall meet again / If ever / But time / Keeps flowing like a river / To the sea..."]

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