The Raven (song)

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The Raven (song)

"The Raven" is a 1976

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song by the Alan Parsons Project

The Alan Parsons Project

The Alan Parsons Project was a United Kingdom progressive rock band active between 1975 and 1990, founded by Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons....
from their album Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Tales of Mystery and Imagination is a progressive rock album by The Alan Parsons Project, released in 1976 . The album's avant-garde soundscapes kept it from being a blockbuster, but the interesting lyrical and musical themes — retellings of horror fiction stories and poetry by Edgar Allan Poe — attracted a small audience....
. The song is based on the Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, Short story writer, Editing and Literary criticism, and is considered part of the American Romanticism. Best known for his tales of Mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the Detective fiction genre....
poem of the same name

The Raven

"The Raven" is a narrative poetry by the United States writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in January 1845. It is noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere....
. It is well-known as being the first rock song to use a vocoder

Vocoder

A vocoder, , is an analysis / synthesis system, mostly used for speech in which the input is passed through a multiband filter, each filter is passed through an envelope follower, the control signals from the envelope followers are communicated, and the decoder applies these control signals to corresponding filters in the synthesizer....
, developed by EMI

EMI

The EMI Group is a United Kingdom music company comprising the major record label EMI Music ? which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in London, England, United Kingdom ? and EMI Music Publishing, based in New York City....
, to distort vocals. It is also one of the few songs by the band featuring the vocals of Alan Parsons

Alan Parsons

Alan Parsons is a United Kingdom audio engineer, musician, and record producer. He was involved in the production of several successful albums, including The Beatles' Abbey Road and The Dark Side of the Moon, for which Pink Floyd credit him as an important contributor....
. The 1987 reissue

Reissue

A reissue is the repeated issue of a Publishing work. In common usage it refers to an album which has been released at least once before and is released again, sometimes with alterations or additions....
d version of the song contains a guitar solo

Guitar solo

Guitar solos are a melodic passage, section, or entire piece of music written for an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar. Guitar solos, which often contain varying degrees of improvisation, are used in many styles of popular music such as blues, rock , metal and jazz styles such as swing and jazz fusion....
near the end, before the "nevermore, nevermore, never" refrain and a few licks between the lyrics.

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