# Pyramid (The Alan Parsons Project album)

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Pyramid (stylized as Pyr△mid) is the third album by progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project, released in May 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.
The book visible in the cover design is G. Patrick Flanagan – Pyramid Power: The Millennium Science (1973).

## Track listing

All songs written and composed by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.

### Bonus tracks

Pyramid was remastered and reissued in 2008 with the following bonus tracks:
* "Voyager/What Goes Up/The Eagle Will Rise Again" (instrumental) – 8:55
* "What Goes Up/Little Voice" (early version demo) – 4:07
* "Can't Take It with You" (early version demo) – 1:45
* "Hyper-Gamma-Spaces" (demo) – 2:21
* "The Eagle Will Rise Again" (alternate version – backing track) – 3:20
* "In the Lap of the Gods" (Part I – demo) – 3:14
* "In the Lap of the Gods" (Part II – backing track rough mix) – 1:56

## Bonus tracks details

* What Goes Up/Little Voice – Another song called, at the time, Little Voice was included in this demo but was not used in the final album.
* Can't Take It With You (early version demo) – Alan Parsons (unusually) played all the instruments.
* Hyper-Gamma Spaces – The name came from Eric Woolfson's brother Richard, whose Mathematics Doctoral Thesis carried the title Hyper-Gamma Spaces.
* The Eagle Will Rise Again (alternative version-backing track) – Intended as a Reprise Rock Band version demo attempt. This was abandoned as there was already enough material for the album.

## Personnel

* David Paton – bass (all tracks), acoustic guitar (tracks 2, 4–6, 9) vocals (tracks 2–3, 5)
* Stuart Elliott – drums (all tracks), percussion (tracks 1–2, 4–9)
* Ian Bairnson – electric and acoustic guitars (tracks 1–7, 9)
* Eric Woolfson – Projectron (track 1), Fender Rhodes (track 2), clavichord and virginals (track 3), piano (tracks 5–7, 9), organ (track 6), backing vocals (3, 5)
* Duncan Mackay – synthesizers (track 1, 4–5, 7–8)
* Alan Parsons – Fender Rhodes (track 1), acoustic guitar (track 5), Wurlitzer (track 8), Projectron (tracks 8–9), backing vocals (track 3)
* John Leach – kantele (track 1), cimbalom (track 6)
* Andrew Powell – autoharp (track 3)
* Phil Kenzie – saxophone solos (track 4)
* Dean Ford, Colin Blunstone, Lenny Zakatek, John Miles, Jack Harris – vocals
* Choir: The English Chorale, Choirmaster: Bob Howes
* Produced and engineered by Alan Parsons
* Executive production: Eric Woolfson
* Arrangements: Andrew Powell
* Album cover design: Hipgnosis
* Photography Aubrey Powell / Rob Brimson
* Mastering: Chris Blair

## Certifications and sales

| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
| Australia (ARIA) | Gold | 20,000$^^$ |
| Canada (Music Canada) | 2× Platinum | 200,000$^^$ |
| Germany (BVMI) | Platinum | 500,000$^^$ |
| New Zealand (RMNZ) | Gold | 7,500$^^$ |
| Spain (PROMUSICAE) | Gold | 50,000$^^$ |
| United States (RIAA) | Gold | 500,000$^^$ |
| Summaries |||
| Worldwide | — | 2,000,000+ |
| $^^$ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |||