Freudiana

This album was released in two versions: the "White Album" and the "Black Album".

The "White Album" was released in 1990 through EMI Records and was the standard album. While it was credited to "Freudiana" and not Eric Woolfson, Alan Parsons nor the Alan Parsons Project, the earliest releases had "The Alan Parsons Project" at the top. It includes 18 tracks with lead vocal performances from Leo Sayer, Kiki Dee, Marti Webb, 10cc's Eric Stewart, Frankie Howerd, Gary Howard and the Flying Pickets, as well as previous Alan Parsons Project vocalists Chris Rainbow, John Miles, Graham Dye, and Woolfson. Alan Parsons made musical contributions throughout the album as well as writing and producing, as he had with Alan Parsons Project albums. Howard would later appear with Parsons' live band on Alan Parsons Live, and Stewart on Parsons' first two solo studio albums, Try Anything Once and On Air.

The Deutsche Originalaufnahme ("German original recording"), also known as the "Black Album", features a double-length cast disc containing material from the rock opera recorded at Theater an der Wien.

[It] started as an Alan Parsons Project concept album, and when we were close to completing it, this theatrical producer called Brian Brolly heard it and wanted to develop it into a stage musical, so we had to literally double the length of it and put new music in, do reprises, and, y’know, write songs for different characters and so on. So it developed from a single album to a double album, and then the feeling was at the time that it was not suitable to be called The Alan Parsons Project, so it became Freudiana, produced by Alan Parsons and with all the same people as The Alan Parsons Project. But it turned out that that was a huge marketing mistake, because nobody knew it was there. Had it come out as The Alan Parsons Project, it probably would’ve done a whole lot better [...]

— Alan Parsons, Alan Parsons interview, All Our Yesterdays, Art and Science of Sound Recording[2]

We often disagreed and the tragic thing about "Freudiana" was that it all turned into a legal battle between Eric and the producer. A sad time for all of us because we were in and out of court for more than three years, paying a lot of money. It's bad because the show really had the potential of "Cats" or "Les Misérables" and then went down in completely nonsensical litigation.

So what was your relationship with Eric Woolfson like after the musical?

Parsons: Unfortunately, that was also our last project together. After all the disputes, he really wanted to go back to the theater, and I personally didn't really see the point of expressing my creativity there.

— Alan Parsons, Alan Parsons Live Project im Wiener Gasometer zu Gast[3]

It started out that it was going to be an Alan Parsons Project album, but I wanted to develop into musical theater, so we didn’t call it an Alan Parsons Project album. Eventually we started to undo the ties between us. Instead of crediting the songs to both him and I, the songs were my songs, other than one track in which he did compose, and we didn’t give it a joint name.

— Eric Woolfson, The Alan Parsons Project: If you believe in the power of magic…[4]

All songs written by Eric Woolfson except where stated.

1. "The Nirvana Principle" (Instrumental) – 3:44
2. "Freudiana" (lead vocal: Eric Woolfson) – 6:20
3. "I Am a Mirror" (lead vocal: Leo Sayer) – 4:06
4. "Little Hans" (lead vocal: Graham Dye) (backing vocal: Chris Rainbow) – 3:15
5. "Dora" (lead vocal: Eric Woolfson) – 3:51
6. "Funny You Should Say That" (lead vocal: The Flying Pickets) - 4:36
7. "You're on Your Own" (lead vocal: Kiki Dee) – 3:54
8. "Far Away from Home" (lead vocal: The Flying Pickets) – 3:11
9. "Let Yourself Go" (lead vocal: Eric Woolfson) – 5:26
10. "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" (Instrumental) (Alan Parsons) – 3:13
11. "The Ring" (lead vocal: Eric Stewart) – 4:22
12. "Sects Therapy" (lead vocal: Frankie Howerd) – 3:40
13. "No One Can Love You Better Than Me" (lead vocal: Kiki Dee, Marti Webb, Gary Howard and Eric Woolfson) – 5:40
14. "Don't Let the Moment Pass" (lead vocal: Marti Webb) – 3:40
15. "Upper Me" (lead vocal: Eric Stewart) – 5:16
16. "Freudiana" (Instrumental) – 3:43
17. "Destiny" (lead vocal: Chris Rainbow) – 0:51
18. "There But for the Grace of God" (lead vocal: John Miles and Marti Webb) – 5:56

• Eric Woolfson – Keyboards, vocals, executive producer
• Alan Parsons – Additional keyboards, engineer, producer
• Andrew Powell – Arrangements, orchestra leader
• Ian Bairnson – Guitar
• Laurie Cottle – Bass
• Richard Cottle – Synthesizer, saxophone
• Stuart Elliott – Drums, percussion

Freudiana - Deutsche Originalaufnahme
Cast recording by Freudiana
Released	1991 (1991)
Genre	Rock
Length	67:47
Label	EMI
Producer	Herwig Ursin

Freudiana premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria on 19 December 1990. It was produced by Vereinigte Bühnen Wien. Until 18 April 1992, it played for 380 performances before 320,000 people.

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

• Freudiana discography at Discogs