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Alan Parsons, a Rare card
Alan Parsons is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician, singer and record producer.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 125
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 380,000
Power 125 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Alan Parsons quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Alan Parsons card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Parsons's own group, The Alan Parsons Project, as well as his ______ solo recordings, have also been commercially successful.
Answer
subsequent. Parsons's own group, The Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have also been commercially successful. From the Alan Parsons article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Parsons was the sound engineer on albums including the Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, and the eponymous debut album by Ambrosia in ____.
Answer
1970s. Parsons was the sound engineer on albums including the Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, and the eponymous debut album by Ambrosia in 1975. From the Alan Parsons article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Parsons was the sound engineer on albums including the Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, 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.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alan Parsons article was read about 380,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Alan Parsons
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alan Parsons (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Andemaya, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
