Robert Plant Pictures at Eleven

6/28/1982:

Pictures at Eleven Robert Plant

Released: June 28, 1982 Peak: 5 US, 2 UK, 13 CN, 6 AU Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, 0.06 UK Genre: rock

Tracks: Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts. Burning Down One Side (7/10/82, 64 US, 3 AR, 73 UK, 11 CN, 86 AU) Moonlight in Samosa Pledge Pin (7/17/82, 74 US, 11 AR) Slow Dancer (7/17/82, 19 AR) Worse Than Detroit (7/10/82, 10 AR) Fat Lip Like I’ve Never Been Gone Mystery Title Total Running Time: 42:12

Rating: 3.164 out of 5.00 (average of 19 ratings)

About the Album: Robert Plant’s first solo album would never match the expectations of Led Zeppelin fans, but it was a platinum seller that hit the top 5 in the U.S. and UK. Overall, though, “Plant is able to escape most of his past and still sound motivated…He courses a new direction without changing or disguising his distinct vocal style.” AMG Plant recorded the album with “old Midlands pal/guitarist Robbie Blunt and ‘name’ drummers Phil Collins and Cozy Powell.” Q Blunt “comes to life on Worse Than Detroit…and…Collins…and…Powell give Plant enough of a solid background to lean his sultry yet surging rock voice against.” AMG “Plant channels his energy quite effectively through songs like Pledge Pin and Moonlight in Samosa.” AMG The album would find “its mark with the twisty funk-rock of Burning Down One Side and Slow Dancer.” Q On the latter, “Powell was said to have implored ‘Planty’ to just let rip like he used to in the old days.” Q Critics were generally lukewarm, saying things like it “was a cautious sounding record.” Q Rolling Stone’s Kurt Loder said, “there’s nothing new going on in these grooves.” WK The Village Voice’s Robert Christgau “was impressed by Plant’s ability to recreate Led Zeppelin’s aural sensibilities with duller musicians and catchier undertones, but ultimately found the music somewhat insignificant.” WK It was the only Robert Plant solo album released on Swan Song, the label formed by Led Zeppelin, before they ceased to be. WK The title is a reference to a phrase following stories of interest which be shown later during the station’s news program at 11pm. WK Notes: A 2007 reissue added “Far Post” and a live version of “Like I’ve Never Been Gone” as bonus tracks.

Resources and Related Links: DMDB encyclopedia entry for Robert Plant AMG All Music Guide review by Mike DeGagne Q Mark Blake, Q magazine, Sept. 2010, p. 133. WK Wikipedia Other Related DMDB Pages: First posted 9/27/2010; last updated 8/20/2021.

Crosby, Stills & Nash released Daylight Again

Daylight Again Crosby, Stills & Nash

Released: June 21, 1982 Peak: 8 US, -- UK, 30 CN, 46 AU Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 1.85 US, 4.49 EAS Genre: folk rock/classic rock

Tracks: Click on a song title for more details. Turn Your Back on Love [4:51] Wasted on the Way [2:52] Southern Cross [4:41] Into the Darkness [3:23] Delta [4:15] Since I Met You [3:12] Too Much Love to Hide [3:58] Song for Susan [3:08] You Are Alive [3:04] Might As Well Have a Good Time [4:28] Daylight Again / Find the Cost of Freedom [2:36] Total Running Time: 39:50 The Players: David Crosby (vocals, guitar) Stephen Stills (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, organ, piano, percussion) Graham Nash (vocals, guitar)

Rating: 3.562 out of 5.00 (average of 13 ratings)

About the Album Although Crosby, Stills & Nash first worked together in 1968, this was only their fourth studio album. Like its predecessors, it was a top-10 platinum seller. It landed a top-10 hit (“Wasted on the Way”) and top-20 hit (“Southern Cross”) on the Billboard Hot 100. A third single, “Too Much Love to Hide,” stalled at #69. Stills-Nash In the early ‘80s, David Crosby “was descending into a self-induced state of perpetual drug dependency” AM so Stephen Stills and Graham Nash started making recordings in 1980 and 1981 for what was to be a Stills-Nash project. Atlantic Records executives, however, were only interested in a full-fledged reunion of Crosby, Stills & Nash. Eventually Stills & Nash relented and invited Crosby to participate, WK “although arguably in name only.” AM “Despite that obvious setback, the other two primary namesakes supply some genuine and uniformly excellent material to the proceedings.” AM Most of the recordings featured additional voices, including Art Garfunkel, WK Timothy B. Schmit of the Eagles and Mike Finnigan, who had worked with CSN before. AM Stills and Nash did add their vocals to two of Crosby’s songs – “Delta” and “Might As Well Have a Good Time.” WK Notes A 2006 reissue added four bonus tracks. The Songs Here’s a breakdown of each of the individual songs.

Turn Your Back on Love Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Michael Stergis Released: Daylight Again (1982) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 1.82 streaming About the Song: “’Turn Your Back on Love,’ as well as ‘Too Much Love to Hide’ and ‘Since I Met You’ are all up-tempo, full-throttle rockers co-composed by Stills, and include some of the guitarist's most blistering fretwork under the CSN moniker.” AM

Wasted on the Way Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Graham Nash Released: June 1982 (single), Daylight Again (1982), CSN (box set, 1991), Carry On (compilation, 1991), Greatest Hits (compilation, 2005) B-Side: “Delta” First Charted: June 25, 1982 Peak: 9 BB, 8 CB, 4 GR, 2 RR, 2 AC, 87 CW, 9 AR, 96 AU, 7 DW Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 20.55 streaming About the Song: “Wasted on the Way” was “about the time the group spent in squabbles and diversions rather than concentrating on their music.” WK Graham Nash said, “My point…is just that. We have wasted an enormous amount of time on petty issues that should never have kept us from making music.” LN

Southern Cross Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Stephen Stills, Richard Curtis, Michael Curtis Released: September 1982 (single), Daylight Again (1982), CSN (box set, 1991), Carry On (compilation, 1991), Greatest Hits (compilation, 2005) B-Side: “Into the Darkness” First Charted: July 10, 1982 Peak: 18 BB, 18 CB, 4 GR, 7 RR, 6 AC, 39 AR, 5 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 1.0 radio, -- video, 138.64 streaming About the Song: “Southern Cross” was a “partial rewrite of a song by brothers Richard and Michael Curtis.” WK Stephen Stills said they “brought me a wonderful song called ‘Seven League Boots,’ but it drifted around too much. I re-wrote a new set of words and added a different chorus, a story about a long boat trip I took after my divorce. It’s about using the power of the universe to heal your wounds. Once again I was given somebody’s gem and cut and polished it.” LN As the band’s first album in the video age, they did a video for “Southern Cross” featuring “one of their favorite metaphors, a sailing vessel. It received a fair amount of rotation on MTV in 1982 and 1983, and helped to propel the album's sales.” WK

Into the Darkness Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Graham Nash Released: September 1982 (B-side of “Southern Cross”), Daylight Again (1982) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 0.89 streaming

Delta Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): David Crosby Released: June 1982 (B-side of “Wasted on the Way”), Daylight Again (1982), CSN (box set, 1991), Greatest Hits (compilation, 2005) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 2.52 streaming About the Song: Crosby’s “hauntingly lyrical ‘Delta’ stands as one of his finest contributions.” AM He said, “It was the last complete song I’d written until I kicked drugs in prison several years later and my songwriting came back to me. I was the child crazy for the deep. I had pieces of the tune in my head and one day I ran into Jackson Browne in Santa Barbara. He took me over to Warren Zevon’s place and got me to sit down at the piano and work at the song. I wanted to smoke the pipe, I kept saying, ‘Just gimme a minute, just gimme a minute,’ but Jackson kept insisting I stay at the piano and finish the song. Thanks, Jackson.” LN

Since I Met You Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Stephen Stills, Michael Stergis Released: Daylight Again (1982) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 0.48 streaming About the Song: “’Turn Your Back on Love,’ as well as ‘Too Much Love to Hide’ and ‘Since I Met You’ are all up-tempo, full-throttle rockers co-composed by Stills, and include some of the guitarist's most blistering fretwork under the CSN moniker.” AM

Too Much Love to Hide Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Stephen Stills, Gerry Tolman Released: January 1983 (single), Daylight Again (1982) Peak: -- First Charted: 69 BB, 81 CB, 46 AR Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 1.08 streaming About the Song: “’Turn Your Back on Love,’ as well as ‘Too Much Love to Hide’ and ‘Since I Met You’ are all up-tempo, full-throttle rockers co-composed by Stills, and include some of the guitarist's most blistering fretwork under the CSN moniker.” AM

Song for Susan Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Graham Nash Released: Daylight Again (1982) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 0.91 streaming About the Song: One of the album’s “thoroughly affective ballads” AM was “Song for Susan,” which Nash wrote for his spouse. AM

You Are Alive Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Stephen Stills, Michael Stergis Released: Daylight Again (1982) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 0.51 streaming About the Song: “Song for Susan” and “the equally emotive ‘You Are Alive’” AMG were two of the “thoroughly affective ballads” AM from Daylight Again.

Might As Well Have a Good Time Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Judy Henske, Craig Doerge Released: Daylight Again (1982) Peak: 11 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 0.54 streaming

Daylight Again/ Find the Cost of Freedom Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Stephen Stills Released: Daylight Again (1982), CSN (box set, 1991), Greatest Hits (compilation, 2005) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, -- streaming About the Song: The title cut “evolved out of Stills’ guitar-picking to accompany on-stage stories regarding the South in the Civil War,” WK segueing into ‘Find the Cost of Freedom,’ which was first released in 1970 as the B-side of “Ohio.” According to Stills, “‘Daylight Again’ was actually a precursor to ‘Find the Cost of Freedom,’ but for years all I had was the tune and the first line ‘Daylight again / Following me to bed ...’ I was out on tour and we’d done four nights running. I was in Williamsburg, Virginia, and burnt out and dead tired. At the end of the concert I began to play the song. I didn’t have any words, but I continued to play. I closed my eyes and went into a trance and saw a movie. It was a talking dream where I went back 112 years, to the Civil War. The lyrics just flowed through me like an automatic poem. I sang them as they came into my head and a whole story unfolded. When the concert was over I rushed backstage and madly tried to reconstruct the lyrics. It’s a war song, not just a civil war song. We lost that war, too: we still have racism, don’t we?” LN

Resources/References: AM AllMusic.com review by Lindsay Planer LN liner notes from CSN box set WK Wikipedia Related DMDB Pages: First posted 3/21/2026.

 

ABC’s Lexicon of Love released

First posted 2/11/2010; updated 9/13/2020.

Lexicon of Love ABC

Released: June 21, 1982 Peak: 24 US, 14 UK, 3 CN, 9 AU Sales (in millions): 0.5 US, 0.3 UK, 0.8 world (includes US and UK) Genre: new wave

Tracks: (Click for codes to singles charts.) Show Me Poison Arrow (2/20/82, 25 US, 6 UK, 36 CN, 4 AU) Many Happy Returns Tears Are Not Enough (10/16/81, 19 UK) Valentine’s Day The Look of Love, Pt. 1 (5/15/82, 18 US, 32 AR, 4 UK, 1 CN, 7 AU) Date Stamp All of My Heart (9/4/82, 5 UK, 13 CN, 21 AU) 4 Ever 2 Gether The Look of Love, Pt. 4 Total Running Time: 37:25 The Players: Martin Fry (vocals) Mark White (guitar, keyboards) Mark Lickley (bass) Stephen Singleton (saxophone) David Palmer, David Robinson (drums, percussion)

Rating: 4.300 out of 5.00 (average of 16 ratings) Quotable: “A landmark album in British pop” – Rob Webb, BBC Awards:

About the Album: “ABC’s debut album combined the talents of the Sheffield, U.K.-based band, particularly lead singer Martin Fry, a fashion plate of a frontman with a Bryan Ferry fixation, and the inventive production style of former Buggles member Trevor Horn and his team of musicians, several of whom would go on to form the Art of Noise. Horn created dense tracks that merged synthesizer sounds, prominent beats, and swaths of strings and horns, their orchestrations courtesy of Anne Dudley, who would follow her work with the Art of Noise by becoming a prominent film composer, and who here underscored Fry’s stylized romantic lyrics and dramatic, if affected, singing.” AMG The album produced three top-ten hits in the UK with Poison Arrow, The Look of Love, and All of My Heart. While “Poison Arrow” preceded “The Look of Love” on the charts in the UK, it was the other way around in the U.S. where “The Look of Love” hit the top 20 and was followed by top-40 hit “Poison Arrow.” “The production style was dense and noisy, but frequently beautiful, and the group’s emotional songs gave it a depth and coherence later Horn works, such as those of Yes (‘Owner of a Lonely Heart’) and Frankie Goes to Hollywood, would lack. (You can hear Horn trying out the latter band's style in Date Stamp).” AMG “Fry and company used the sound to create moving dancefloor epics like Many Happy Returns, which, like most of the album’s tracks, deserved to be a hit single…ABC, which began fragmenting almost immediately, never equaled its gold-selling first LP commercially or artistically, despite some worthy later songs.” AMG The BBC’s Rob Webb hailed the album as “a landmark album in British pop” WK saying that “it underpins just what a sharp band ABC were: witty, lyrical, and very, very funky.” WK

Resources and Related Links: ABC’s DMDB Encyclopedia entry AMG All Music Guide review by William Ruhlmann WK Wikipedia

Alan Parsons Project Eye in the Sky charted in the U.S.

Eye in the Sky Alan Parsons Project

Charted: June 19, 1982 Peak: 7 US, 28 UK, 3 CN, 4 AU Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, 0.06 UK, 2.38 world (includes US and UK) Genre: progressive rock lite

Tracks: Click on a song title for more details. Sirius [1:48] Eye in the Sky [4:33] Children of the Moon [4:49] Gemini [2:09] Silence and I [7:17] You’re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned [4:19] Psychobabble [4:50] Mammagamma [3:34] Step by Step [3:52] Old and Wise [4:52] Total Running Time: 42:03 The Players: Alan Parsons (production, engineering, assorted instruments) Eric Woolfson (vocals, keyboards, piano) Ian Bairson (guitar) David Paton (bass) Stuart Elliott (drums, percussion) Colin Blunstone, Chris Rainbow, Elmer Gantry, Lenny Zakatek (vocals) Mel Collins (saxophone) The Philharmonia Orchestra, arranged and conducted by Andrew Powell

Rating: 4.078 out of 5.00 (average of 20 ratings) Quotable: “On no other album by this group is there such a tight amalgamation of music, lyrics, and ideas, all combining to create songs that are accessible to a vast audience” – Mike DeGagne, AllMusic.com Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the Album: ”The fusion of Parsons’ thematic intentions and exquisitely textured music comes to fruition on 1982's Eye in the Sky,” AM an album which ”returned in some ways to [Parsons’] more progressive, art-rock past,” AZ but also serves as “the transition between the seventies’ Project art rock sound and the more clinical, Fairlight-laden eighties sound.” DV “Parsons’ approach was a synthesis of studio wizardry with a symphonic, spacey interplay between keyboards, synthesizers and basic rock instrumentation.” AZ ”With a powdery feel and pristine sound, Eye in the Sky is worthy of both amiable songs and conceptual substance, something not found on all of the Alan Parsons Project’s albums.” AM “On no other album by this group is there such a tight amalgamation of music, lyrics, and ideas, all combining to create songs that are accessible to a vast audience.” AM ”The album deals with the futuristic outlook of how our lives will be constantly monitored by ‘Big Brother’ and the manner in which man's right for freedom and choice may someday be thwarted by the government, or the powers that be. Aside from Parsons' intriguing concept, the individual songs serve a dual purpose by carrying out the album's message while at the same being perfect examples of well-crafted rock.” AM ”What you have here is a seriously tasty piece of symphonic pop/rock, music for grownups.” DV ”Eye in the Sky is, quite simply, the Project’s finest hour.” DV Reissue The 2007 reissue added alternate versions of “Sirius,” “Old and Wise,” and “Silence and I.” There was also an additional song (“Any Other Day”), the instrumental medley “The Naked Eye” and “Eye Pieces.” The Songs Here’s a breakdown of each of the individual songs.

Sirius Alan Parsons Project

Writer(s): Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson Vocals: NA (instrumental) Released: Eye in the Sky (1982) Peak: 3 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 13.0 video, 116.15 streaming

Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the Song: ”The up-and-down flow of the instrumental Sirius is astonishing and is used wisely as the opening track.” AM It gained distinction as the soundtrack for the Chicago Bulls in their Michael Jordan championship era. “P.Diddy (Puff Daddy) also chose [it] as the backbone for the title track of his most platinum-selling CD, The Saga Continues. In 2000, ‘Sirius’ was featured in an IMAX documentary movie about Michael Jordan.” AP

Eye in the Sky Alan Parsons Project

Writer(s): Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson (see lyrics here) Vocals: Eric Woolfson Released: single (7/3/1982), Eye in the Sky (1982) Peak: 3 BB, 3 CB, 3 GR, 3 AC, 11 AR, 11 CN, 22 AU, 1 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 0.50 US, -- UK, 0.55 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 2.0 radio, 143.90 video, 357.01 streaming

Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the Song: The Alan Parsons Project built a loyal platinum base with their first five semi-conceptual albums. Their progressive-rock-lite sound was embraced by album rock stations with future radio staples such as “Damned if I Do” and “Games People Play,” songs which also found audiences at top-40 radio. However, it wasn’t until their sixth album, Eye in the Sky and its title cut, that the group found its biggest audience. The album was the group’s second top-10 album after 1977’s I, Robot. Meanwhile the title cut reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving the Alan Parsons Project their only top-10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The term “eye in the sky” might suggest the “Big Brother is always watching you” idea from George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984 but there are no lyrical references to the book in the song and the official website doesn’t mention any connection. Parsons has said, however, that the album did play with the idea that “there’s always a camera watching you, there’s always a helicopter in the sky overseeing you, and you can read a line of small newspaper print from space.” SF It can also be viewed as a reference to the ceiling cameras in casinos. SF “Eye in the Sky” ”is a prime example of a fabulous rock song, highlighted by the harmonic beauty of Eric Woolfson.” AM When the song gained a foothold at radio, it was often paired on album-rock-oriented formats with “Sirius,” the instrumental lead-in on the album.

Children of the Moon Alan Parsons Project

Writer(s): Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson Vocals: David Paton Released: Eye in the Sky (1982) Peak: 29 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 8.74 streaming About the Song: Children of the Moon and Gemini “have Parsons’s love of the esoteric.” AZ

Gemini Alan Parsons Project

Writer(s): Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson Vocals: Chris Rainbow Released: Eye in the Sky (1982) Peak: 39 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 4.78 streaming About the Song: Children of the Moon and Gemini “have Parsons’s love of the esoteric.” AZ The latter “is an astonishing piece of vocal harmony.” DV

Silence and I Alan Parsons Project

Writer(s): Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson Vocals: Eric Woolfson Released: Eye in the Sky (1982) Peak: 3 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 8.81 streaming About the Song: Next up is Silence and I, “a rich, multi-layered vocal and orchestral piece.” DV

You’re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned Alan Parsons Project

Writer(s): Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson Vocals: Lenny Zakatek Released: Eye in the Sky (1982) Charted: 6/26/1982 Peak: 22 AR, 12 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 3.48 streaming About the Song: You’re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned “ is a surprisingly straight-ahead rock number.” DV

Psychobabble Alan Parsons Project

Writer(s): Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson Vocals: Elmer Gantry Released: single, Eye in the Sky (1982) First Charted: 7/10/1982 Peak: 57 BB, 38 GR, 54 AR, 3 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 5.89 streaming About the Song: ”Psychobabble is a cerebral rock song that best represents the album’s concept” AM and, “though never a hit…remains a favorite of fans.” AZ

Mammagamma Alan Parsons Project

Writer(s): Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson Vocals: NA (instrumental) Released: Eye in the Sky (1982) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 24.29 streaming About the Song: ”Mammagamma is another instrumental that brandishes the group’s trademarked mysteriousness, wrapped in an ominous science fiction-type glow.” AM It “allowed Parsons to fully indulge his fondness for orchestration with its instrumental structure.” AZ

Step by Step Alan Parsons Project

Writer(s): Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson Vocals: Lenny Zakatek Released: Eye in the Sky (1982) Peak: 37 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 3.74 streaming

Old and Wise Alan Parsons Project

Writer(s): Alan Parsons, Eric Wooflson (see lyrics here) Vocals: Colin Blunstone Released: single (1/15/1983), Eye in the Sky (1982) Peak: 21 AC, 74 UK, 1 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 9.80 video, 50.22 streaming

Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the Song: The title cut from Eye in the Sky gave the Alan Parsons Project their greatest hit. The album also featured “Old and Wise.” It was released as a single, but didn’t fare nearly as well. It did reach the lower rungs of the UK chart and was a minor hit on Billboard’s adult contemporary chart. On a personal note, however, it is my favorite Alan Parsons Project song and one of my top 100 songs of all time. Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson co-wrote the song “about a man approaching death, addressing those he knew with fond remembrance.” SF The song begs to be played at funerals with its simultaneously heart-wrenching and uplifting statement “To those I leave behind / I want you all to know/ You’ve always shared my darkest hours / I’ll miss you when I go.” They recorded a version with Woolfson singing lead – as he often did on songs by the Project – without the orchestration or saxophone solo which was featured on the final album version. His vocal is featured on the 2007 album reissue of Eye in the Sky, but the 1982 released featured Colin Blunstone. Parsons knew him from his days in the Zombies when Parsons was an engineer on the group’s 1968 Odessey and Oracle album. SF Blunstone had worked with the Project before, having sung “The Eagle Will Rise Again” on the group’s 1978 Pyramid album. Woolfson and Blunstone were both at Abbey Road studios and Woolfson told him, “I’d like to play you this song.” SF Eric sat down at a piano in the same studio where the Zombies had recorded “Time of the Season” and played “Old and Wise.” Blunstone thought it was wonderful and Woolfson asked if he’d take a stab at the vocals. SF Blunstone would record other songs with the Project, but this was the only single released by them which featured Blunstone on vocals. WK

Resources/References: AM AllMusic.com review by Mike DeGagne AZ Amazon.com review by Steve Gdula DV DailyVault.com review by Duke Egbert AP AlanParsonsMusic.com SF Songfacts page for “Eye in the Sky” SF Songfacts page for “Old and Wise” WK Wikipedia page for Eye in the Sky album WK Wikipedia page for “Eye in the Sky” song WK Wikipedia page for “Old and Wise” Related DMDB Pages: First posted 3/24/2008; last updated 9/25/2025.