THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT

Deluxe edition that relays the full story of the album’s conception.

JULIAN MARSZAŁEK

The Turn Of A Friendly Card ESOTERIC To listen once again to The Turn Of A Friendly Card – the fifth album from the studio-based outfit that was The Alan Parsons Project – is to be reminded of the days when big album releases were served by primetime television adverts when only three channels existed. Slowly but surely, that motif from the title track, alongside the album cover image of the King of Diamonds framed within a stained glass window, would weave its way out of the nation’s primitive televisions and ultimately onto the hi-fi systems that were clearly targeted by erstwhile Beatles and Pink Floyd engineer Alan Parsons and musical partner/manager Eric Woolfson. “The opulence of Monte Carlo is translated into a smoothly rich sound.” All of which is…

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