The Turn Of A Friendly Card

The Turn of a Friendly Card is the fifth studio album by the British progressive rock band the Alan Parsons Project, released in 1980 by Arista Records. The album was recorded in a record short time of six weeks in Paris. Usually the Alan Parsons Project would take many months to record an album. The title piece, which appears on side 2 of the LP, is a 16-minute suite broken up into five tracks. The Turn of a Friendly Card is a concept album with its theme focused on the gambling industry and the fate of gamblers. According to Woolfson, the band made an effort to create an album that would be commercially accessible "in all the world markets." The Turn of a Friendly Card spawned the hits "Games People Play" and "Time", the latter of which was Eric Woolfson's first lead vocal appearance. An edited version of the title piece combining the opening and ending parts of the suite was also released as a single along with an official video. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tur...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)