I Robot (Album)

Occupation

  • David Paton: Bass, Acoustic Guitar
  • Stuart Tosh drums, percussion
  • Ian Bairnson: Electric and Acoustic Guitar
  • B. J. Cole: Steel Guitar
  • John Leach: dulcimer, kantele
  • Keyboards: Eric Woolfson, Alan Parsons, Duncan Makay
  • Vocals: Lenny Zakatek, Allan Clarke, Steve Harley, Jack Harris, Peter Straker, Jaki Whitren, Dave Townsend

I Robot is an art-rock album of the British music project The Alan Parsons Project. The album was released under the record label Arista Records in 1977 and in 1984 for the first time re-released on CD. Advanced remastered and with bonus tracks versions published in 2007 ( 30th - Anniversary Edition) and 2013 ( Legacy Edition ).

History

At first Eric Woolfson wanted to publish another setting of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories in the tradition of the previous album, this was however prevented by their new label Arista Records, as they would only have the rights to the second part of the series so.

Another former favorite author Woolfsons was the Russian-American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, whose story collection I, the Robot ( I, Robot in the original English ) he had read and wanted to give the album as a base. Due to a contract that had been 10 years previously ceded by Asimov the film rights, including those of all standing related music recordings to a production company, the group was legally unable to make the album apparently and content with direct reference to the novel. Therefore we changed the title slightly ( the comma was omitted ) and referred the lyrics and song titles only very generally on robots rather than specific to the Asimov stories.

The inlay of the album, the following text is found:

" I ROBOT ... THE STORY OF THE RISE OF THE MACHINE AND THE DECLINE OF MAN, WHICH WITH HIS DISCOVERY paradoxically COINCIDED OF THE WHEEL ... AND A WARNING THAT HIS BRIEF DOMINANCE OF THIS PLANET WILL PROBABLY END, BECAUSE HE TRIED TO CREATE ROBOT IN HIS OWN IMAGE. "

"I, the Robot ... The story of the rise of the machine and the evanescence of man, which both began, paradoxically, with the discovery of the wheel ... And a warning against that his short reign is likely to go on this planet will end soon, as he tried to create the robot in his own image. "

Title list

All pieces by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson composed, except Total Eclipse of Andrew Powell

Page 1

Page 2

Cover

The cover is a collage on a photo of the escalators at the Paris -Charles -de- Gaulle airport in Paris superimposed drawing of a robot with stylized atom as the brain of the British graphic design agency Hipgnosis. The idea to use this place for the futuristic cover, came from Eric Woolfson, the airport had always reminded her about " the robotic activities of mankind." The people in the escalators is assistant to the conductor Hipgnosis Storm Thorgerson. For the final published photomontage more recordings have been copied together.

The commercial success of the album is attributed in part to the cover, since at the time of release of the film Star Wars and the resulting connected Sci-Fi hype was the first music album with a robot on the front page.

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