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  1. Tales Of Mystery And Imagination (Original 1976 Version)
    Tales Of Mystery And Imagination (Original 1976 Version)Album by The Alan Parsons Project
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    Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Alan Parsons …

    • Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edgar Allan Poe) is the debut studio album by British rock band the Alan Parsons Project. It was released on 25 June 1976 in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Charisma Records and 20th Century Records in the rest of the world. The lyrical and musical themes of the album, which are retellings of horror stories and poetry b… See more

    Composition

    "The Raven" features actor Leonard Whiting on lead vocals, with Alan Parsons performing vocals through an EMI See more

    Artwork

    The album's cover art was made by Hipgnosis. Storm Thorgerson said that Eric Woolfson and Parsons wanted a "classy" design, including a book of lyrics, lengthy credits, and a chronology of Poe's life. He described t… See more

    Reception

    Critical reaction to the album was mixed: Rolling Stone's Billy Altman concluded it did not completely accurately reproduce Poe's tension and macabre fear, ending by saying "devotees of Gothic literature will have to wait for so… See more

    Reissues

    Originally simply called The Alan Parsons Project, the album was successful enough to achieve gold status. The identity of The Alan Parsons Project as a group was cemented on the second album, I Robot, in 1977. … See more

    Covers

    A variant of the song "The Raven" appears on the Eric Woolfson album Edgar Allan Poe (2009), which contains the complete music from Woolfson's 2003 stage musical of the same name. The variant track does not appear on … See more

    Personnel

    Track numbers in parentheses.
    • Alan Parsons – EMI vocoder (2), Projectron synthesizer (3, 7, 10), recorder (5), additional vocals (11), synthesizer (3–4 on 1987 remix), cathedral organ (5 on 1987 remix), pro… See more

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