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Alan Parsons

1948 - Today

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Alan Parsons (born 20 December 1948) is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician and record producer. Parsons was the sound engineer on albums including the Beatles' Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970), Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), and the eponymous debut album by Ambrosia in 1975. Parsons's own group, the Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have also been commercially successful. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Parsons has received more than 3,439,624 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Alan Parsons is the 231st most popular musician (up from 283rd in 2019), the 839th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,047th in 2019) and the 51st most popular British Musician.

Alan Parsons is most famous for his work as a sound engineer on the Beatles' Abbey Road album.

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  • 3.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Alan Parsons ranks 231 out of 3,175. Before him are Oscar Peterson, Gianna Nannini, Thelonious Monk, Carla Bley, Cliff Williams, and Enrico Macias. After him are Romano Mussolini, Ian Stewart, Farid al-Atrash, Alfred Brendel, Luigi Tenco, and Isaac Stern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Alan Parsons ranks 70. Before him are Jerzy Kukuczka, William Gibson, Edmund Kemper, Edwige Fenech, Chris de Burgh, and Radomir Antić. After him are Maye Musk, Steven Chu, Agnieszka Holland, Nathalie Baye, Alia Al-Hussein, and Ray Kurzweil.

Others Born in 1948

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alan Parsons ranks 839 out of 8,785. Before him are Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), David Coverdale (1951), Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831), William Bateson (1861), and John William Polidori (1795). After him are Bernard Cornwell (1944), Anthony James Leggett (1938), Pete Postlethwaite (1946), Imelda Staunton (1956), James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), and Charlotte, Princess Royal (1766).

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Among MUSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among musicians born in United Kingdom, Alan Parsons ranks 51. Before him are John Cale (1942), John Paul Jones (1946), Amy Winehouse (1983), Ken Hensley (1945), Stuart Sutcliffe (1940), and Cliff Williams (1949). After him are Ian Stewart (1938), Mick Taylor (1949), Bob Klose (1945), Karl Jenkins (1944), Steve Harris (1956), and Billy Idol (1955).

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