The Alan Parsons Project I Robot Vinyl LP - Arista AL 7002 (1977) VG++ First Pressing with I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You Condition: VG++ (EX) Vinyl and VG++ (EX) Cover. Vinyl was play-tested on both sides and plays beautifully throughout with good fidelity. Gatefold cover has great color, no splits, and includes lyrics inside gatefold. I Robot is the second album by the Alan Parsons Project, released in 1977 by Arista Records. The album draws conceptually on author Isaac Asimov's science fiction Robot stories, exploring philosophical themes regarding artificial intelligence. By pure coincidence, the album was released shortly after Star Wars came out in the United States. The group acknowledges that part of the album's success came from it being the only album with a robot on the cover during a time when robots were suddenly "all the rage". The artwork was created by the English art design group Hipgnosis. The album cover photo features Storm Thorgerson's assistants in the escalator tubes of the circular Terminal 1 building of the Charles de Gaulle Airport outside of Paris. Over this is superimposed a painting of a robot with a stylised atom for a brain. The robot also appears on the label of the record. The original vinyl release has a gatefold-style cover; the inside spread has the lyrics and a monochrome photograph of Parsons. Tracklist A1 I Robot A2 I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You A3 Some Other Time A4 Breakdown A5 Don't Let It Show B1 The Voice B2 Nucleus B3 Day After Day (The Show Must Go On) B4 Total Eclipse B5 Genesis Ch.1, V.32 Personnel David Paton ? bass (tracks 1?8, 10), acoustic guitar (tracks 3, 10), backing vocals (track 8) Stuart Tosh ? drums (tracks 1?8, 10), percussion (tracks 5?6), water gongs (track 7) Ian Bairnson ? electric and acoustic guitars (tracks 1?8, 10), backing vocals (track 8) Eric Woolfson ? clavinet (tracks 1, 3), Fender Rhodes (track 2), Wurlitzer (tracks 2, 4, 6), piano (tracks 3, 5, 8), organ (track 5), keyboards (tracks 7, 10), backing vocals (track 8) Alan Parsons ? Projectron (tracks 1, 3?4, 6?7), Synthi-A Sequencer Programming (tracks 1, 8), acoustic guitar (track 5), vocoder (track 6), tape loops and effects (track 7), backing vocals (track 8) Duncan Mackay ? keyboards (tracks 1, 4, 7, 10) B.J. Cole ? steel guitar (track 8) Andrew Powell ? Hammond B-3 organ (track 8) John Leach ? cimbalom and kantele (tracks 1, 3) Lenny Zakatek, Allan Clarke, Steve Harley, Jack Harris, Peter Straker, Jaki Whitren, Dave Townsend, the English Chorale, the New Philharmonia Chorus ? vocals Hilary Western ? soprano vocals (track 1) Tony Rivers, John Perry and Stu Calver ? backing vocals (tracks 3, 10) Produced and engineered by Alan Parsons, executive producer Eric Woolfson Orchestra and choir arranged and conducted by Andrew Powell _____________________________________________ Shipping: Calculated domestic shipping via Media Mail or Priority Mail. Will ship internationally at FLAT RATES. Records mailed in a proper cardboard LP mailer. All records cleaned prior to shipment. Check out my other auctions, and save on shipping! I do offer multiple-bid shipping discounts -- please contact me before paying if you plan to purchase or bid on multiple auctions. Payment: Paypal is preferred method of payment. 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