A 1997 2 CD release by Arista Records consisting of many of the best known works from The Alan Parsons Project. All tracks are composed by Woolfson/Parsons except "Turn It Up" - written by Ian Bairnson and "Re-Jigue" written by Alan Parsons and Andrew Powell. True to the Alan Parsons Project, most of these songs are sung by different people, listed in brackets after each track along with the albums each song is taken from.
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