The Alan Parsons Project: Ammonia Avenue [Songbook] by The Alan Parsons Project
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That trip gave me two things in a way,” says Collins. “That there was strength in the songs and I didn’t want to let them down by singing them limply, as I was rather timid when I started out. You hear those people we recorded like Almeda Riddle, the Arkansas singer, they weren’t timid about their singing, they just sang naturally with a lot of strength. It was fascinating because a lot of the songs in the Ozarks and the Appalachians are from British stock anyway, and what made it lovely was that when they were singing a song or a ballad that I knew from England, I could sing it back to them and they were thrilled as they were listening to a song that had gone to America perhaps three or four hundred years earlier, still being sung at home.
Everything had been too unruly, too sensational to be healthy. At a meeting held a few weeks after the Great Pop Prom, it was proposed that The Beatles, who were scheduled to return for a New Year’s Eve Ball, should be the subject of a permanent ban. In the end, common sense triumphed: as revealed in the RAH council minutes, the president said he felt this particular group represented “first-class entertainment”, and the edict was never implemented. The fact that the Fabs had been chosen to appear in that year’s Royal Command Performance obviously played a part in the decision.
The alcohol thing made that time seem like one big party. And it was a lot of fun. But I wasn’t as attentive as I should’ve been to my career. Once I quit drinking and put the band together with Coco Montoya and Walter Trout and all those people, I was able to restart and it’s been going ever since. I haven’t had a drink for 25 years if my maths is correct. I haven’t really kept count, but it’s a long time, anyway. You’ve put out a number of fine live albums over the years – do you find that’s where you’re most comfortable, on-stage as opposed to in the studio?