The Turn of a Friendly Card is the fifth album by progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project, released in 1980. It focuses on gambling, and loosely tells the tale of a middle-aged man who grows restless and takes a chance by going to a casino and betting all he has, only to lose it all. The album has a 16-minute title piece, which was broken up into five tracks (except the West German CD pressing), with the five sub-tracks listed as sub-sections. The Turn of a Friendly Card spawned the moderate hits "Games People Play" and "Time", the latter of which was Eric Woolfson's first lead vocal appearance. The Turn of a Friendly Card is the fifth album by progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project, released in 1980. It focuses on gambling, and loosely tells the tale of a middle-aged man who grows restless and takes a chance by going to a casino and betting all he has, only to lose it all. The album has a 16-minute title piece, which was broken up into five tracks (except the West German CD pressing), with the five sub-tracks listed as sub-sections. The Turn of a Friendly Card spawned the moderate hits "Games People Play" and "Time", the latter of which was Eric Woolfson's first lead vocal appearance. false 2025-11-07 21:36:27 The Turn of a Friendly Card 1980 1980-01-01 1980-01-01 40 Aor Art Rock Electronic Pop Pop Rock Progressive Pop Progressive Rock Rock Soft Rock Symphonic Rock Synth-Pop 112512 2118888 891de603-01e2-4d55-8df4-17bad1b5cbf8 f98711e5-06f7-43ed-8239-da0f61a9c460 f51a3bff-99d8-3943-9552-e7d20fdd11cc /media/data/media5/Music/The Alan Parsons Project/The Turn of a Friendly Card/folder.jpg The Alan Parsons Project The Alan Parsons Project 1 1 May Be a Price to Pay 04:58 1 2 Games People Play 04:21 1 3 Time 05:04 1 4 I Don’t Wanna Go Home 05:04 1 5 The Gold Bug 04:32 1 6 The Turn of a Friendly Card: I. The Turn of a Friendly Card, Part One 02:44 1 7 The Turn of a Friendly Card: II. Snake Eyes 03:15 1 8 The Turn of a Friendly Card: III. The Ace of Swords 02:56 1 9 The Turn of a Friendly Card: IV. Nothing Left to Lose 04:08 1 10 The Turn of a Friendly Card: V. The Turn of a Friendly Card, Part Two 03:22 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".