Alan Parsons

Alan Parsons

Alan Parsons is a British audio engineer, musician, and record producer. He was involved with the production of several significant albums, including The Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be, as well as Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon for which Pink Floyd credit him as an important contributor...

 A Walk Down Abbey Road was a concert tour which was launched in North America in 2001 to pay tribute to the Beatles and promote the hits of various headlining band members. Similar to Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr

Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...

's All Starr Band tour, each successive year the band members swapped out and featured the songs of the new line up.

The first set would included all band members assembled to play each others hits. The second set featured all Beatles songs performed by various band members depending on the specific tune and the strength and style of the performer.

Although certainly successful enough to continue over two years, the show was mired by some problems, not the least of which was prohibitive concessions having to be paid to the Beatles for the use of the name "Abbey Road".

An obvious play on concert-goers expectations with legendary Who bassist Entwistle in the group, the second song of the opening set was Open My Eyes from Rundgren's first band, The Nazz

The Nazz

Nazz was a psychedelic and garage rock band from the 1960s. The band was formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1967 by Todd Rundgren and Carson Van Osten...

. The chord pattern at the beginning is lifted directly from The Who's Can't Explain. Sadly, it would be one of John Entwistles' last concert series as he died on 27 June 2002 one day before the scheduled first show of The Who's 2002 US tour.

2001 tour band

• Alan Parsons
  Alan Parsons
  Alan Parsons is a British audio engineer, musician, and record producer. He was involved with the production of several significant albums, including The Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be, as well as Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon for which Pink Floyd credit him as an important contributor...
  
  : vocals, guitar, keyboards
• Todd Rundgren
  Todd Rundgren
  Todd Harry Rundgren is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and record producer. Hailed in the early stage of his career as a new pop-wunderkind, supported by the certified gold solo double LP Something/Anything? in 1972, Todd Rundgren's career has produced a diverse range of recordings...
  
  : vocals, guitar, backing vocals
• Ann Wilson
  Ann Wilson
  Ann Dustin Wilson is an American musician, best known as the lead singer, flute player, songwriter, and occasional guitar player of the rock band Heart.-Personal life:...
  
  : vocals, guitar, backing vocals
• John Entwistle
  John Entwistle
  John Alec Entwistle was an English bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, horn player, and film and record producer who was best known as the bass player for the rock band The Who. His aggressive lead sound influenced many rock bass players...
  
  : bass guitar, vocals
• David Pack
  David Pack
  David Robert Pack , is a Grammy Award Winning Artist, Producer & Music Director of Global Events. His career began as the front man, vocalist and guitarist with the rock group Ambrosia popular in the 1970s and 1980s.-Career:...
  
  : guitar, backing vocals

Additional musicians:

• Godfrey Townsend: guitar, backing vocals
• John Beck
• Spazzy McGee

2001 Tour Set List: Set 1

1. Magical Mystery Tour (Pack, Wilson)
2. Open My Eyes (Rundgren)
3. Eye In The Sky (Pack)
4. Crazy On You (Wilson)
5. My Wife (Entwistle)
6. Hello, It's Me (Rundgren)
7. Don't Answer Me (Pack)
8. Biggest Part Of Me (Pack)
9. How Much I Feel (Pack)
10. Bang The Drum All Day (Rundgren)
11. The Real Me (Townshend)
12. Dreamboat Annie (Wilson)
13. Games People Play (Pack, Wilson)
14. Barracuda (Wilson)
15. My Generation (Pack, Rundgren)

2001 Tour Set List: Set 2

1. Back In The U.S.S.R. (Pack)
2. Lady Madonna (Rundgren)
3. I'm Down (Wilson)
4. Fool On The Hill (Pack)
5. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Rundgren, Wilson)
6. Here Comes The Sun (Townshend)
7. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Pack, Wilson)
8. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (Rundgren acoustic solo)
9. Maybe I'm Amazed (Wilson)
10. Rain (Rundgren)
11. Blackbird (Parsons acoustic solo)
12. Me And My Monkey (Wilson)
13. Revolution (Rundgren)
14. Day Tripper (Pack, Rundgren)
15. Ticket To Ride (Pack, Rundgren)
16. I Want To Hold Your Hand (Pack, Rundgren)
17. Hey Jude (Wilson)

2002 tour band

• Alan Parsons
  Alan Parsons
  Alan Parsons is a British audio engineer, musician, and record producer. He was involved with the production of several significant albums, including The Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be, as well as Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon for which Pink Floyd credit him as an important contributor...
  
  : vocals, guitar, keyboards
• Todd Rundgren
  Todd Rundgren
  Todd Harry Rundgren is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and record producer. Hailed in the early stage of his career as a new pop-wunderkind, supported by the certified gold solo double LP Something/Anything? in 1972, Todd Rundgren's career has produced a diverse range of recordings...
  
  : vocals, guitar, backing vocals
• Christopher Cross
  Christopher Cross
  Christopher Cross is an American singer-songwriter from San Antonio, Texas. His debut album earned him five Grammys. He is perhaps best known for his Top Ten hit songs, "Sailing", "Ride Like the Wind", and "Arthur's Theme ", the last of which he performed for the film Arthur starring Dudley Moore...
  
  : vocals, guitar, backing vocals
• Jack Bruce
  Jack Bruce
  John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scottish musician and songwriter, respected as a founding member of the British psychedelic rock power trio, Cream, for a solo career that spans several decades, and for his participation in several well-known musical ensembles...
  
   (of Cream): bass guitar, backing vocals
• Mark Farner
  Mark Farner
  Mark Fredrick Farner is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter, best known as the lead singer and lead guitarist for Grand Funk Railroad, and later as a Contemporary Christian Musician.-Early life and career:...
  
   (of Grand Funk): vocals, guitar, backing vocals
• Eric Carmen
  Eric Carmen
  Eric Howard Carmen is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist.He scored numerous hit songs across the 1970s and 1980s, first as a member of the Raspberries , and then with his solo career, including hits such as "All By Myself", "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again", "She Did It",...
  
  (of The Raspberries): vocals, guitar, backing vocals

Additional musicians:

• Godfrey Townsend
• John Beck
• Steve Murphy