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Parsons Knows: The Tale of Alan Parsons and Edgar Allan Poe

Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 10 July 1976

THE CONCEPT ALBUM, contemptuously rejected by many critics as the great bore of rock, has returned, and this work of producer Alan Parsons, supported by a cast of hundreds, will doubtless meet the same condemnation. But Parsons pleads: "Don't judge this book by its cover."

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