Pyramid is the third album by progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project, released in 1978. It is a concept album centred on the pyramids of Giza. At the time the album was conceived, interest in pyramid power and Tutankhamun was widespread in the US and the UK. Pyramid was nominated for the 1978 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Liner notes read "...this album seeks to amplify the haunting echoes of the past and explore the unsolved mysteries of the present. Pyramid...the last remaining wonder of the ancient world." The album also dabbles with New Wave, a genre that was emerging in Britain around the time of the album's recording. Many progressive and soft rock artists employed this style into their albums during the time spanning from late 1977 to 1979. In this album, the genre is mildly evident, through rhythm, in songs such as "Can't Take it with You" and immensely so in others such as "Pyramania". Pyramid is the third album by progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project, released in 1978. It is a concept album centred on the pyramids of Giza. At the time the album was conceived, interest in pyramid power and Tutankhamun was widespread in the US and the UK. Pyramid was nominated for the 1978 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Liner notes read "...this album seeks to amplify the haunting echoes of the past and explore the unsolved mysteries of the present. Pyramid...the last remaining wonder of the ancient world." The album also dabbles with New Wave, a genre that was emerging in Britain around the time of the album's recording. Many progressive and soft rock artists employed this style into their albums during the time spanning from late 1977 to 1979. In this album, the genre is mildly evident, through rhythm, in songs such as "Can't Take it with You" and immensely so in others such as "Pyramania". false 2025-11-07 21:36:27 Pyramid 1 38 Art Rock Classic Rock Pop Rock Progressive Pop Progressive Rock Rock Soft Rock Symphonic Rock 112512 2118881 dcd836a2-bf5b-4825-ad13-50cf11a56dba f98711e5-06f7-43ed-8239-da0f61a9c460 154e77f6-995e-3206-83f7-16bc15f47d3a /media/data/media5/Music/The Alan Parsons Project/Pyramid/folder.jpg The Alan Parsons Project The Alan Parsons Project 1 1 Voyager 02:14 1 2 What Goes Up… 03:57 1 3 The Eagle Will Rise Again 04:04 1 4 One More River 04:16 1 5 Can’t Take It With You 05:02 1 6 In the Lap of the Gods 05:30 1 7 Pyramania 02:42 1 8 Hyper-Gamma-Spaces 04:20 1 9 Shadow of a Lonely Man 05:34 The Alan Parsons Project were a British rock band active between 1975 and 1990, whose core membership consisted of producer, audio engineer, musician and composer Alan Parsons and singer, songwriter and pianist Eric Woolfson. They were accompanied by varying session musicians and some relatively consistent session players such as guitarist Ian Bairnson, arranger Andrew Powell, bassist and vocalist David Paton, drummer Stuart Elliott, and vocalists Lenny Zakatek and Chris Rainbow. Parsons and Woolfson shared writing credits on almost all of the Project's songs, with Parsons producing or co-producing all of the band's recordings. The Alan Parsons Project released eleven studio albums in its 15-year career, the most successful being I Robot (1977), The Turn of a Friendly Card (1980) and Eye in the Sky (1982). Many of their albums are conceptual in nature and focus on science fiction, supernatural, literary and sociological themes. Among the group's most popular songs are "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You", "Games People Play", "Time", "Sirius"/"Eye in the Sky" and "Don't Answer Me".