{"history":[],"article":{"id":"294c5b7c-349d-40c7-a36e-979ab627e085","title":"Pyramid (The Alan Parsons Project album)","slug":"pyramid-the-alan-parsons-project-album","content":":::summary\n![Pyramid](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/The///Alan///Parsons///Project///-///Pyramid.jpg)\n**Name:** Pyramid \n**Type:** Album \n**Artist:** [The Alan Parsons Project](https://bliptext.com/articles/the-alan-parsons-project) \n**Released:** May 1978 \n**Recorded:** September 1977 – February 1978 \n**Studio:** [Abbey Road Studios](https://bliptext.com/articles/abbey-road-studios), London, England \n**Genre:** Progressive rock · art rock · symphonic rock · new wave \n**Length:** 37:46 \n**Label:** [Arista](https://bliptext.com/articles/arista-records) \n**Producer:** [Alan Parsons](https://bliptext.com/articles/alan-parsons) \n**Prev Title:** [I Robot](https://bliptext.com/articles/i-robot-album) \n**Prev Year:** 1977 \n**Next Title:** [Eve](https://bliptext.com/articles/eve-the-alan-parsons-project-album) \n**Next Year:** 1979 \n:::\n\n# \n**Pyramid** (stylized as **Pyr△mid**) is the third album by [progressive rock](https://bliptext.com/articles/progressive-rock) band [The Alan Parsons Project](https://bliptext.com/articles/the-alan-parsons-project), released in May 1978.\nIt is a concept album centred on the [pyramids of Giza](https://bliptext.com/articles/pyramids-of-giza).\nAt the time the album was conceived, interest in [pyramid power](https://bliptext.com/articles/pyramid-power) and [Tutankhamun](https://bliptext.com/articles/exhibitions-of-artifacts-from-the-tomb-of-tutankhamun) was widespread in the US and the UK.\nPyramid was nominated for the 1978 [Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical](https://bliptext.com/articles/grammy-award-for-best-engineered-album-non-classical).\nThe book visible in the cover design is G. Patrick Flanagan – Pyramid Power: The Millennium Science (1973).\n\n# Track listing\nAll songs written and composed by [Alan Parsons](https://bliptext.com/articles/alan-parsons) and [Eric Woolfson](https://bliptext.com/articles/eric-woolfson).\n\n## Bonus tracks\nPyramid was remastered and reissued in 2008 with the following bonus tracks:\n

\"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

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