Freudiana is a rock opera

Rock opera

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, originally intended to be the 11th album by The Alan Parsons Project

The Alan Parsons Project

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, but by release time was the first album credited to Eric Woolfson

Eric Woolfson

Eric Norman Woolfson was a Scottish songwriter, lyricist, vocalist, executive producer, pianist, and creator of The Alan Parsons Project. He has sold over 50 million albums world-wide....

 as a solo artist, marking his final project with former collaborator Alan Parsons

Alan Parsons

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, who is credited as producer. After recording the album, Woolfson worked with Brian Brolly

Brian Brolly

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 to adapt the album into a stage musical. As befits the title, all of the songs on the album are references to theories of Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

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Track listing

All songs written by Eric Woolfson, except where noted.

1. "The Nirvana Principle" – 3:44
2. "Freudiana" – 6:20
3. "I Am a Mirror" – 4:06
4. "Little Hans" – 3:15
5. "Dora" – 3:51
6. "Funny You Should Say That" – 4:36
7. "You're On Your Own" – 3:54
8. "Far Away From Home" – 3:11
9. "Let Yourself Go" – 5:26
10. "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" (Alan Parsons) – 3:13
11. "The Ring" – 4:22
12. "Sects Therapy" – 3:40
13. "No One Can Love You Better Than Me" – 5:40
14. "Don't Let the Moment Pass" – 3:40
15. "Upper Me" – 5:16
16. "Freudiana" – 3:43
17. "Destiny" – 0:51
18. "There But For the Grace of God" – 5:56

Personnel

• Eric Woolfson
  Eric Woolfson
  Eric Norman Woolfson was a Scottish songwriter, lyricist, vocalist, executive producer, pianist, and creator of The Alan Parsons Project. He has sold over 50 million albums world-wide....
  
   – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , lead vocal
  Singing
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   on tracks 2, 5, 9, and 13, executive producer
• Alan Parsons
  Alan Parsons
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   – producer, additional keyboards, engineer
• Laurie Cottle – bass
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• Stuart Elliott
  Stuart Elliott (drummer)
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   – drums
  Drum kit
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  , percussion
• Ian Bairnson
  Ian Bairnson
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   – guitar
  Guitar
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• Richard Cottle – synthesizer
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  , saxophone
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• Leo Sayer
  Leo Sayer
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   – lead vocal on track 3
• Graham Dye – lead vocal on track 4
• The Flying Pickets
  The Flying Pickets
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   – lead vocals on tracks 6, and 8
• Kiki Dee
  Kiki Dee
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   – lead vocal on tracks 7, and 13
• Eric Stewart
  Eric Stewart
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   – lead vocal on tracks 11, and 15
• Frankie Howerd
  Frankie Howerd
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   – lead vocal on track 12
• Marti Webb
  Marti Webb
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   – lead vocal on tracks 13, and 14
• Gary Howard – lead vocal on track 13
• Chris Rainbow
  Chris Rainbow
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   – lead vocal on track 17
• John Miles
  John Miles (musician)
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   – lead vocal on track 18
• Andrew Powell
  Andrew Powell
  Andrew Powell - musical composer, arranger and performer - was born 18 April 1949 in London, England of Welsh parents.- Early life :He began taking piano lessons at the age of four and later attended Kings College School, Wimbledon by which time he was also learning the viola, violin and orchestral...
  
   – arrangements, conductor
• Tony Richards – engineer

Stage Musical Version

Freudiana premiered at the Theater an der Wien

Theater an der Wien

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 in Vienna

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, Austria

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 on December 19, 1990. It was produced by Vereinigte Bühnen Wien

Vereinigte Bühnen Wien

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. Until April 18, 1992 it played for 380 performances before 320,000 people.

Stage director was Peter Weck. The German song texts were by Lida Winiewicz. Erik was played by Ulrich Tukur

Ulrich Tukur

Ulrich Tukur is a German actor and musician.-Biography:Tukur spent his youth near Hanover where he finished his final secondary-school examinations in 1977. He also achieved a high school degree in Boston during an exchange of students where he met his first wife, Amber Wood. With her, he had two...

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