Eyes To The Sky!
Sally Woolfson hints there could be more unreleased APP material to come.
As the unofficial keeper of the flame of her father’s legacy, Sally Woolfson is thrilled that The Complete Albums Collection is being released on deluxe vinyl.
“Keeping dad’s catalogue out there is very important to me, and doing so often involves me badgering various record companies,” comments Woolfson, who was a small girl during the heyday of The Alan Parsons Project. “I was immersed in it all,” he recalls. “At the age of four I remember being terrified by Tales Of Mystery…
“Because the band’s success came largely outside of the UK, as a kid I grew up blissfully unaware of how popular they were,” she continues. “This was a time when it was all about punk rock. The APP were probably the world’s most successful entity that never toured.”
Asked whether her father and Parsons were close as friends or simply working partners, Sally laughs slightly nervously. “It was a very constructive working relationship,” she responds. “They made 10 albums in a little over a decade so it was quite an intense time, but mainly it was work.”
Sally agrees with Parsons’ assessment that Alan and Eric would not have worked together again even if Woolfson had not passed. “Oh yes,” she states, with finality. “That ship had sailed.”
Sally still owns “boxes and boxes” of her father’s writing tapes that were plundered for bonus tracks for past reissues. She grins, “In some I can hear myself in the background – that’s magical.”
Could there someday be a standalone album of that unheard material? “There’s always a possibility,” she teases. “It all depends on the record companies… and the public’s appetite.”