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SHARE BUTTON The Alan Parsons Paradox By Dw Dunphy What you know, and what you think you know, about the career of Alan Parsons are two very different things. His most famous entry in the music world, as part of The Alan Parsons Project, was named such because studio documents and tapes involved with the first al- bum Tales of Mystery and Imagination has those words written on them almost anecdotally. The band wasn’t The Alan Parsons Project. The project was being organized by Alan Parsons, as well as another primary collaborator, writer/performer/vocalist Eric Woolfson. The moniker stuck. Read each issue at www.NJArtsMag.com pg 19