Birthday Boy

To the historic Union Hotel in Los Alamos when English rocker Alan Parsons, who has been nominated for 11 Grammys, celebrated the 20th anniversary of his half century with a heavenly host of friends and music stars.

The songwriter and record producer, who worked on the Beatles’ Abbey Road and Let It Be albums, as well as Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, is releasing his first album in 15 years, The Secret, later this year.

Alan, who has an organic avocado ranch, Tres Vientos, in Goleta, where he recently built a new multi-million dollar studio, wittily dubbed ParSonics, also celebrated the occasion with an impressive birthday cake based on his 1982 album, Eye In The Sky.

Among the revelers were actress Bo Derek and John Corbett, Leslie Ridley-Tree, Alan’s great aunt, Mark Collier, singer Al Stewart, Andrew Goldenhersh, Peter Noone, Robert Schwartzman, John Payne, Arthur von Wiesenberger, Wally Palmer, David Pack of Ambrosia, Dave Jenkins, Danny Thompson, P.J. Olsson, Guy Erez, Todd Cooper, Tom Brooks, Dan Tracy, Jeff Coleman, Jeff Marshall, and last, but not least, Alan’s wife Lisa, mother of his two daughters, Tabitha and Brittni.