Alan Parsons OBE (born 20 December 1948) is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician and record producer.

Parsons was involved with the production of several notable albums, including the Beatles‘ Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970), Pink Floyd‘s The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), and the eponymous debut album by Ambrosia in 1975. Parsons’s own group, The Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have also been commercially successful. He has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, with his first win occurring in 2019 for Best Immersive Audio Album for Eye in the Sky (35th Anniversary Edition).

In October 1967, at the age of 18, Parsons went to work as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road Studios. He was a tape operator during the Beatles‘ Get Back sessions, and he earned his first credit on the LP Abbey Road. He became a regular there, engineering such projects as Wings‘ Wild Lifeand Red Rose Speedway, five albums by the Hollies and Pink Floyd‘s The Dark Side of the Moon, for which he received his first Grammy Awardsnomination.