Alan Parsons Albums

	On Air (1996)

	Audio CD and CD-ROM!
    USA/EUR
    1:39/38 0:46    Blue Blue Sky                           Eric Stewart
    5:04    5:12    Too Close To The Sun                    Neil Lockwood
    5:26    5:22    Blown By The Wind                       Eric Stewart
    4:40    4:41    Cloudbreak                              (instrumental)
    4:37    4:32    I Can't Look Down                       Neil Lockwood
    4:02    3:57    Brother Up In Heaven                    Neil Lockwood
    4:22/23 4:20    Fall Free                               Steve Overland
    6:05    6:05    Apollo [speech by John F. Kennedy]      (instrumental)
    4:08/07 4:05    So Far Away                             Christopher Cross
    6:19/20 6:13    One Day To Fly                          Graham Dye
    4:26/25 4:23    Blue Blue Sky 2                         Eric Stewart

    Total: 50:48 (50:50, 11 tracks, DDD)

    Bass:               John Giblin, Ian Bairnson
    Drums, Drum Pro-
    gramming, Bongos:   Stuart Elliott
    Guitars:            Ian Bairnson
    Bass Synth:         Ian Bairnson
    Keyboards:          Gary Sanctuary, Richard "Trix" Cottle,
                        Alan Parsons, Stuart Elliott
    Piano:              Gary Sanctuary
    Saxophone:          Richard "Trix" Cottle
    Backing Vocals:     Ian Bairnson, Alan Parsons, Peter Beckett
    Orchestra:          The Philharmonia Orchestra (leader: Christopher
                        Green) arranged and conducted by Andrew Powell;
                        recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London;
                        Assistant Engineer:  Guy Massey

    Produced & Engineered by:   Alan Parsons
    Recorded at Parsonics:      December 1995 - June 1996

    Music and Lyrics:
         1, 3,
         5, 6,
         9, 11: Ian Bairnson
         2:     Alan Parsons, Ian Bairnson, Stuart Elliott
         4:     Ian Bairnson, Alan Parsons, Stuart Elliott
         7:     Ian Bairnson, Stuart Elliott, Alan Parsons
         8:     Stuart Elliott, Alan Parsons, Ian Bairnson
        10:     Stuart Elliott, Scott English

    Engineer for Christpher Cross:      Jeff Poe
    Cover Design:       Storm Thorgerson and Peter Curzon
    Photography:        Tony May, Altan Omer, Adrian Smith, Rupert Truman
    Balloon:            John Lewis
    Computer:           Richard Manning, Jason Reddy

    CD-ROM CREDITS
    Produced by:        Ken Rose
    Programming:        Tam Saunders, Ken Rose
    Art Direction:      Storm Thorgerson and Peter Curzon
    Research:           Julien Mills
    Drawings:           Finlay Cowan
    Photos:             Paul Maxon, Altan Omer, Tony May,
                        Sally Norris, Julien Mills
    Production Team:    Vavin Basros, Melanie Frankland,
                        Jeremy Parsons, George Saunders
    Assoc. Producers:   Ian Silvester, Ron Eve
    Exec. Producers:    Alan Parsons, Ian Bairnson, Stuart
                        Elliott for Parsonics Ltd.

    "Brother Up In Heaven" dedicated to Erik Mounsey (1965-1994),
    cousin of Ian Bairnson shot down by friendly fire over Iraq.

    "Fall Free" inspired by Rob Harris, world champion skysurfer.

    Notes:

    2 CDs for the price of 1!  One CD consists of the audio album and
    the other is a CD-ROM bonus (PCs/Macs) multimedia treat with audio/
    video samplers (.AVI, Quicktime .MOV, .WAV, and RealAudio .RAM)!
    The CD-ROM will be a song-led program following the same theme as
    the music CD. There will be info about aviation (theme), trivia,
    about the band, video clips, and more.


        CD 1996 NE      Arcade/CNR Music        530 00 99 (09/06/96)
        CD 1996 GE,SP   Arcade                  530 00 99 (09/09/96)
        CD 1996 US      PolyGram/River North    51416-1237(-2) (09/24/96)
        CD 1997 IT      Flying Records          ??? (01/??/97)
        CD 1997 UK      Total Records           ??? (02/24/97)
        CA 1996 US      PolyGram/River North    51416-1237(-4) (09/24/96)
        CD 1996 CA      Polygram Canada         76974-2107(-2) (10/02/96)
        CA 1996 CA      Polygram Canada         76974-2107(-4) (10/02/96)
        HD 1996 US      MFSL [?]                MFI 44?? (??/??/96)

    [ (*) note that the CD-ROM does *not* come with the
        cassette nor the Canadian CD release -- ed. ]
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