Before he became the architect of immaculate progressive rock suites, Alan Parsons was the 27-year-old recording engineer who aligned the tape heads for Abbey Road and miked the choirs for The Dark Side of the Moon . But when he stepped from behind the console to co-found with manager/lyricist Eric Woolfson, he created a distinct universe: albums built around single, often eerie, concepts—Edgar Allan Poe, gambling, robots, the fear of flying—wrapped in airtight arrangements and Woolfson’s plaintive, theatrical vocals.

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As Eric Woolfson once sang on Eye in the Sky : “I am the maker of rules… dealing with fools…” He and Parsons made the rules. And no one broke them.