"The Raven" features actor Leonard Whiting on lead vocals, with Alan Parsons performing vocals through an EMI vocoder. According to the album's liner notes, "The Raven" was the first rock song to feature a digital vocoder. The … See more

The album's cover art was made by Hipgnosis. Storm Thorgerson said that Eric Woolfson and Parsons wanted a "classy" design, including a book of lyrics, lengthy credits, and … See more

Originally simply called The Alan Parsons Project, the album was successful enough to achieve gold status. The identity of The Alan Parsons Project as a group was cemented on the second album, I Robot, in 1977.
In 1987, Parsons … See more

Track numbers in parentheses.
• Alan Parsons – EMI vocoder (2), Projectron synthesizer (3, 7, 10), recorder (5), additional vocals … See more

Critical reaction to the album was mixed: Rolling Stone's Billy Altman concluded it did not completely accurately reproduce Poe's tension and … See more

A variant of the song "The Raven" appears on the Eric Woolfson album Edgar Allan Poe (2009), which contains the complete music from … See more

• Edgar Allan Poe and music
• "A Dream Within A Dream"
• "The Raven"
• "The Tell-Tale Heart"
• "The Cask of Amontillado" See more