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Eric Woolfson was born in 1945 in Glasgow, Scotland. He started composing music in his early teens and at the age of eighteen, moved to London where he found work as a session pianist. He was quickly signed up by Andrew Oldham (record producer for the Rolling Stones) as a songwriter for his newly formed record label ‘Immediate’. Woolfson wrote a succession of songs for such artists as Marianne Faithful, Frank Ifield and Chris Farlowe.

During the following years, Woolfson’s songs were recorded by over one hundred artists both in Europe and America.

In 1975, Woolfson joined forces with record producer Alan Parsons who was a recording engineer on many Beatles and Paul McCartney albums as well as having engineered Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’.

Woolfson soon realised that he and Alan could form a new kind of collaboration that would allow Parson’s engineering skills to be exploited to the full and at the same time give Woolfson a vehicle for his talents as a songwriter/lyricist. The Alan Parsons Project was born.

Between 1975 and 1987, ten Alan Parsons project albums were produced as a result of that collaboration. To date they have sold over 45 million copies worldwide and they are all still selling in shops around the world today.

Woolfson was eager to write for musical theatre, and in 1990, a new career began when his first musical ‘FREUDIANA’ was premiered in Vienna. The success of this first work led to Woolfson’s second musical ‘GAUDI’, which premiered in 1995 and has run for over five years in several German productions. ‘GAMBLER’, Woolfson’s third musical also premiered in Germany in 1996 and had a first run of over 500 performances. GAMBLER has had five productions in Korea, one of which also toured Japan in 2002 (the first time a Korean language production had been staged in this way). New productions of GAUDI and GAMBLER are planned for 2004/2005.

Currently, as well as developing new productions of his existing works, Woolfson has just completed his magnum opus POE.

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