Alan paid up when he knew it was going to be successful. He famously bet guitarist Ian Bairnson that it would be a huge flop as a single. I had to fight him all the way to record this, and even then he was convinced we had made a huge mistake. “The strongest reaction was from Alan Parsons. That was also referred to as an ‘eye in the sky’, and I thought it would make a good subject for a song.” But it crystallised in my mind when I was shown the security system at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. Stations had their ‘eye in the sky’ covering all sorts of events, from cop car chases to the weather report. “At the time, everywhere you looked in America that phrase was being used.
Where did the inspiration for Eye In The Sky come from?
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