Alan Parsons

Person · Open Library

Works

12

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Active from

1948-12-20

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

104,032

Total plays

1,429,975

Alan Parsons had dabbled with live performance in his late teens as a folk/blues acoustic player and as a lead guitarist with a blues band in the late sixties. But as soon as he landed a job at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London at the age of 19, it became clear that the world of sound recording was to dominate his career. He was fortunate enough to work as assistant engineer on the last two albums by The Beatles and after he qualified as a fully-fledged recording engineer <a href="https://

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

   · 2013 · cited 34,826x

2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 24,148x

3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,854x

4. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,612x

5. DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs

   · 2018 · cited 18,243x

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Quotes

• “Time, flowing like a river Time, beckoning me Who knows when we shall meet again If ever But time Keeps flowing like a river To the sea”
• “While the children laughed I was always afraid Of the smile of the clown So I close my eyes Till I can't see the light And I hide from the sound We're two of a kind Silence and I We need a chance to talk things over Two of a kind Silence and I”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Alan

Family name

Parsons

Gender

male

Citizenship

South Africa

Languages spoken

Afrikaans

Native language

Afrikaans

Sport

badminton

Country for sport

South Africa

Image

Dutch Open 1970 6.jpg

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