ON AIR


 

Credits:

 

1. Blue Blue Sky (Bairnson) (0:46)

Vocal - Eric Stewart

Acoustic Guitar - Ian Bairnson

 

2. Too Close To The Sun (Parsons, Bairnson, Elliott) (5:12)

Vocal - Neil Lockwood

Guitars - Ian Bairnson

Drums - Stuart Elliott

Bass- John Giblin

Keyboards - Gary Sanctuary, Richard Cottle and Alan Parsons

Saxophone - Richard Cottle

 

3. Blown By The Wind (Bairnson) (5:22)

Vocals - Eric Stewart

Guitars - Ian Bairnson

Drums - Stuart Elliott

Bass - John Giblin

Keyboards - Gary Sanctuary

 

4. Cloudbreak (Bairnson, Parsons, Elliott) (4:41)

(instrumental)

Guitars - Ian Bairnson

Drums - Stuart Elliott

Bass Synth - Ian Bairnson

Keyboards - Alan Parsons and Gary Sanctuary

 

5. Can't Look Down (Bairnson) (4:32)

Vocals - Neil Lockwood

Guitars - Ian Bairnson

Drums - Stuart Elliott

Bass - John Giblin

Keyboards - Gary Sanctuary and Richard Cottle

 

6. Brother Up In Heaven (Bairnson) (3:57)

Vocal - Neil Lockwood

Acoustic Guitar - Ian Bairnson

Drums - Stuart Elliott

Bass - Ian Bairnson

Piano - Gary Sanctuary

The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Andrew Powell

(Dedicated to Erik Mounsey 1965-1994)

 

7. Fall Free (Bairnson, Elliott, Parsons) (4:20)

Vocal - Steve Overland

Guitars - Ian Bairnson

Drums - Stuart Elliott

Bass - John Giblin

Keyboards - Gary Sanctuary and Richard Cottle

Additional Backing Vocals - Peter Beckett

(Inspired by Rob Harris, World Champion Skysurfer)

 

8. Apollo (Elliott, Parsons, Bairnson) (6:05)

(instrumental)

Vocal - John F. Kennedy

Guitars - Ian Bairnson

Drum Programming - Stuart Elliott

Keyboards - Gary Sanctuary, Richard Cottle, Stuart Elliott and Alan Parsons

 

9. So Far Away (Bairnson) (4:05)

Vocals - Christopher Cross

Guitars - Ian Bairnson

Drums - Stuart Elliott

Bass - John Giblin

Keyboards - Gary Sanctuary

 

10. One Day To Fly (Elliott, English) (6:13)

Vocals - Graham Dye

Guitars - Ian Bairnson

Drums - Stuart Elliott

Bass - John Giblin

Piano and Keyboards - Gary Sanctuary

The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Andrew Powell

 

11. Blue Blue Sky (Bairnson) (4:23)

Vocals - Eric Stewart

Acoustic Guitar - Ian Bairnson

Bongos - Stuart Elliott

The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Andrew Powell

 

Produced and Engineered by Alan Parsons

 

The Band - Ian Bairnson, Stuart Elliott, John Giblin, Gary Sanctuary, Richard

Cottle and Alan Parsons

 

Album recorded at Parsonics, London, between December 1995 and June 1996

Thanks to all at Digital Audio Technology

 

The Philharmonia Orchestra, Leader - Christopher Warren-Green

Arranged and conducted by Andrew Powell

Orchestra recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London

Assistant engineer - Guy Massey

 

Engineer for Christopher Cross - Jeff Poe

 

Special thanks to - James Wyllie, Joanne Harrison, Elizabeth Ferris, Ian

Silvester, Smokey Parsons, Karen Elliott, Jade, Charlotte and Emily Roberts,

Barry Hilton, Mark Redgrave, Vic Broughton, Graham Cook, Benilde Alves,

Rob Harling, Brad Miller at HDS Technologies, David Del Grosso and all at

DTS, Everyone at River North and Arcade

 

Thanks also to - Paul Reed Smith for the guitar, Bob Wiczling at Zildjian

Cymbals, Gary Mann at Remo Drums, Andy Milner at Marshall Amps, Mesa

Boogie Amplification, Dominik Tarqua at Studer UK, Audio Technica Microphones

 

Management - Pete Smith, Isis Music Ltd.

 

All tracks published by BMG Music Inc except "One Day To Fly" published by

BMG Music Inc/warner Chappell Music Ltd

 

For more information on Alan Parsons and The Fan Club magazine, please write to -

Steve Martin

"The Avenue"

65 Front St West, Suite 0116 - Box 201

Toronto, Ontario

Canada M5J 1E6

The Internet Web address for "The avenue" is -

http://www.interlog.com/~avenue

 

Cover Design by Storm Thorgerson and Peter Curzon

With thanks to Finlay Cowan

Photography by Tony may, Altan Omer

Adrian Smith and Ruper Truman

Balloon made by John Lewis

Computer by Richard Manning and Jason Reddy

CD ROM produced by Ken Rose - Artists For Multimedia

Programming by Tam Saunders and Ken Rose

Art Direction by Storm Thorgerson and Peter Curzon

Research by Julien Mills

Drawings by Finlay Cowan

Photos by Paul Maxon, Altan Omer, Tony May, Sally Norris and Julien Mills

CD ROM Production Team - Vavin bastos, Melanie Frankland, Jeremy Parsons, George Saunders

Associate Producers - Ian Silvester and Ron Eve

Executive Producers - Alan Parsons, Ian Bairnson and Stuart Elliott for Parsonics Ltd.

(For full credits see CD ROM)

 

HDS SPECIAL CREDITS:

 

produced and engineered by
ALAN PARSONS

 

Recorded and mixed for High Definition Surround by
ALAN PARSONS at PARSONICS, London

 

Mastered by
ALAN PARSONS, ROBERT MARGOULEFF and ADRIAN VAN VELSEN at The
Enterprise Studios, Brubank

 

DTS Digital Surround encoding courtesy of DTS Technology

 

Executive producer for this HDS product is BRAD S. MILLER

 

Production mixing and mastering employed GENELEC loudspeakers

 

CD quality control employs the Krell KPS-20

 

CD transport and the Millenium, a 2.4.6 a 20-bit DTS processor/decoder

 

Reproduction notice: a DTS equipped processor/decoder is required in order to

reproduce the program contained on this HDS compact disc. The use of other

decoders or no decoders at all may create excessive white noise or equipment damage.

 

Recommended operation mode: some DTS equipped processor/decoders may

provide a user option known as "down mixing". This allow for the center front (CF)

and/or subwoofer (LFE.1) audio channels to be added back into your left and

right front channels, should you not have a CF or subwoofer loudspeakers in you

system. For best results when playing this compact disc program, it is recommended

that the user option LFE.1 switch is in the DOWN MIX OFF position. Otherwise excessive

bass will be added back into your left and right front audio channels. The CF switch

option if available separately should also be in the DOWN MIX OFF position.

 

HIGH DEFINITION SURROUND™ trademark of Miller Nevada Ltd. Inc., Incline Village, NV 89452-8359

 

DTS is a trademark of DTS Technology, Westlake Village, Ca 91362

 

Manufactured by HDS HIGH DEFINITION SURROUND, a division of Miller Nevada

Ltd. Inc. under exclusive license from Parsonics Ltd

 

(p) © 1996 Parsonics Ltd

 

All rights are reserved. Unauthorized copying, reproduction, hiring, lending, public

performance or broadcasting is prohibited 4414 - 710215 UPC

 

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(Si ringrazia Gregorio Gobbi per il suo contributo alla compilazione di questa pagina)