In 1977, ‘I Robot’ propelled The Alan Parsons Project to global success, all crisp disco beats and futuristic arrangements. Five decades on, with a deluxe reissue on the shelves, the man himself looks back fondly on “the rise of the machine”
Five synth-driven gems from the 1980s that captured the paranoia and effervescent pop of the nuclear age – tales of tension, technology, hope and fear, as told by the artists themselves