The Raven (song)

Infobox Single
Name = The Raven


Artist = The Alan Parsons Project
from Album = Tales of Mystery and Imagination
B-side = "The Fall Of The House Of Usher (Prelude)"
Released = September 1976
Format = 7"
Recorded =
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 3:43
Label = 20th Century
Writer = Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson
Producer = Alan Parsons
Certification =
Chart position =
*

Last single = "(The System Of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether" (1976)
This single = "The Raven" (1976)
Next single = "To One In Paradise " (1976)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Type = studio
prev_track = "A Dream Within a Dream"
prev_no = 1
this_track = "The Raven"
track_no = 2
next_track = "The Tell-Tale Heart"
next_no = 3"The Raven" is a 1976 song by the Alan Parsons Project from their album "Tales of Mystery and Imagination". The song is based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem of the same name. It is well-known as being the first rock song to use a vocoder, developed by EMI, to distort vocals. It is also one of the few songs by the band featuring the vocals of Alan Parsons. The 1987 reissued version of the song contains a guitar solo at the end, during the "nevermore, nevermore, never" refrain.