Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Pilot: (ho ho ho it's) Magic

Pilot.  The band's eponymous first album, from 1974.  Pilot is/was a pop rock musical group, formed during 1973 in Edinburgh by some former Bay City Rollers members, David Paton and Billy Lyall.  Had no idea.  Plus - get this all you art rock fans - Alan Parsons is credited as Producer and also as one of the three Recording Engineers.  From this pop record all the over to Dark Side of the Moon - Alan Parsons is and has been a collaborator or album contributor or record maker in a wide variety of genres.  The photo on the left is of the back album cover.  It states: All songs composed by David Paton and Bill Lyall.  The band Pilot is those two, plus Stuart Tosh (shortened from MacIntosh).  A person named Tony Gilbert is credited as Leader - whatever that means.  But this band's one hit wonder is the bubblegum song Magic.  At age 14 in the summer of 1975, some guy Steve had a car we drove around in and that song was played nonstop on the AM dial on WLS the big 89 and Super CFL, AM 100 I think.

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