Lenny Zakatek Talks Alan Parsons Project & 'I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You'
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lp.constantcontactpages.com/s... INTERVIEW #1 - The Story Behind Alan Parsons Project I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You
This is part one of our exclusive interview with former Alan Parsons project lead singer Lenny Zakatek. Next to Alan Parsons' partner Eric Woolfson who sang on 17 of the bands songs Zakatek was used the most with 12 lead vocals. In fact up To “Ammonia Avenue” Lenny had more songs with10 and Eric had 9. That was 1984.
Lenny Zakatek joined the Alan Parsons Project with their second album, the classic, 'I Robot' released on June 1, 1977. He got the gig via his reputation with the R&B/funk band Gonzalez. Here's part one of our chat with Lenny Zakatek. CLIP 002
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Lenny will be performing the music of the Alan Parson Project in Italy on June 21st. Go to his website
lennyzakatek.co.uk/ for information. We talked about that show CLIP 017
Lenny Zakatek's latest album is called 'Love Letters' where he does some of his favorite tunes like 'Fooled Around and Fell In Love,' 'How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,''I Can't Make You Love Me' just to name a few. - by John Beaudin
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Lenny way better than any other Alan Parsons singer.
That song is a historical masterpiece, Lenny should be rich. I can’t tell you how many times it STILL gets played. Genius.
Lenny IS the voice of the Alan Parsons Project!
Lenny was the best singer APP had.
Lenny is awesome. Fantastic voice
APP had a few great voices but Lenny's was just outstanding!
This guy has a great attitude! I've been working on music for 36 years. I'm not rich, but I'm happy.
Thank you Lenny Zaketek for doing that "gig". You are an amazing vocalist! I totally get what you're message. Respect.
Games People Play is one of my all time favorite songs. What a great voice he has.
Fantastic Singer!
Parsons is a brilliant producer. Woolfson was a great writer and Lenny and the other players they put together for the project were absolutely perfect for those tunes
Guy has a fantastic voice.
Incredibly humble in how he described how he was asked to sing 'l wouldn't want to be like you'. There would have been no one that could have sung the song so brilliantly like Lenny!. Alan Parson made the right choice.
Lenny is a great singer
what would be The Alan Parsons Project without Lenny Zakatek beautiful and powerful voice?
Love his ability
Love APP, Lenny is very talented.
Nice interview. I learned something from one of my favorite vocalists.
Always loved Alan Parsons. Excellent video and hearing from him!
Love, love his voice and songs. Come back, Lenny, and with your wonderful band, to the USA, Denver! My most favorite song is, “Games People Play” and “Time!”
Love this guy. He has a beautiful voice.
Lenny has the best voice...I remember the first time I heard him sing I grabbed the album cover (yep; that long ago) because being a musician and singer myself I said who the f**K is that! He has one of the best tones and feel of any vocalist and I love him....plus you don't notice it at first but try and sing those songs he sang; one helluva range!
First heard I Robot in 1977, it simply blew me away. There was nothing like the sound and feel of Project and I don’t think there ever will be.
Love Lenny!!!! I have since I was a kid, hearing Lenny sing in the 1970's!!!
I searched for who was the original singer of that and Lenny's voice encapsulates Allan Parsons!
Love Lenny and Games People Play. AAP is one of my favorite English Groups. The Beatles, Moody Blues, APP, Bee Gees. Ammonia Avenue is my favorite album. Favorite song: Don't Answer Me.
Lenny believed and Threw everything into That Song..
Great go.
Lenny is so talented, love him!
Thank you sir, Lenny such a great guy. I don't care who wrote it Lenny was the voice I heard singing Be Like You.
Some of the best tunes was sung by this great voice
What a shame, he was such a great vocalist for the APP, he should have been rolling in cash.
Great song and singer. Love it!
This guy's got great voice.
Very gracious
Easily the best APP singer!
I was in 8th grade when "Games People Play" came out and it became one of my all time favorite songs right then, right there. Had no idea who Lenny Zakatek was but he NAILED that song. It still rocks today in 2018. Good stuff, thanks!
LOVE Lenny Zakatek!
i love this song
Lenny Rocks....
Such a good voice!
very rock'nroll voice for Alan Parson's Project! First song I heard he sung was "Games People Play' But I also loved "Wouldn't want to be like you!" That one about Robots replacing humans is very relative to 2020!
Lenny great Voice ! Bravo !!!
The rocky, proggy, raspy voice of APP! Love his powerful vocals on APP. It complimented so well with the ethereal, airy, and soothing voices of Eric and Colin (of their softer ballads), much like what Dewey Bunnell did to Gerry Beckley (America).
The first time I heard 'I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You' was at a disco of all places and people were tearing up the floor to it. Weird in hindsight.
Hi John,
Yes, I love Eric Woolfson but Lenny was my favorite.
Love these videos. I think I will put on a AP album now. Thank you very much for these incredible videos.
Love the way you give credit to musicians that are often in the shadows.
God bless you, John
One of your greatest fans,
Tino
Hearing Lenny on I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You in 1977 was fantastic. I just had to go out and get the I Robot album. A few years later, Lenny did a solo album with all the APP members on Arista. A couple of great songs including a lovely ballad called Viens. Such a treat to finally hear him speak. Seek out the 1990 concert gig in Antwerp that he mentions to see the original
APP live for the first time.
Thanks for this interview.
Love Alan Parsons Project. Tales of Mystery and Imagination was always my favorite though.
AMAZING LENNY!!! GREAT ARTIST!!! I LOVE HIM....
Thanks for this interview. I miss hearing new music from Alan Parsons, always one of my favorites.
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For me, the real APP is this lineup: NOTP 1990 , I also think Lenny Zakatek is their best singer : ruclips.net/video/165DgeZ6Jog/видео.html
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The one the singer
Just recently discovered him ...great vocals ...nice bloke !!
Hahah!! Nice bloke? Is that like a cool asshole???
Love the Alan Parsons Project. Thanks for this one John. After playing in so many bands, I told my brother that no one knows who we are and so we are now the Warren Project. Come listen to some of our music.
I loved the Project since my brother bought the best of album about 20 years ago.
Fascinating story ,,,,,,,One of Rocks best Tracks ever! Thanks Lenny
Lenny !!
APP is a group of excellent singers and excellent musicians selected by Alan Parson and especially by Eric Woolfson, the brain and the true genius of the project. They practically don't have a single bad song.
Great interview! The info gleaned here is literally music history to be found nowhere else! 500 quid is not quite the appropriate payment for that iconic voice- he and Parsons are heroes from my teenage days (class of '78). I enjoy every one of your installments, John. Thanks!
The money goes to the songwriters. Musicians get a token pay for their labors. Lenny seems like a nice guy. Glad he made out well. The original APP lineup was made up of former members of the band Pilot. They deserved a better fate.
Awesome video.
Lovely aura.
Very cool...John. I just came across this. Sending it over to FB group.
very interesting
Sounds like the reason musicians started avoiding Steely Dan. Producers used talent of great studio musicians to produce albums but the studio musicians never got much from it.
Favor de poner en Español las entrevistas! Creo no todo el mundo sabe hablar inglés Gracias! Lo merece Lenny Zakatek! Que sea escuchado no creen?
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I love all the SINGERS ! P J is also Excellent
I thought Lenny was Native American Indian but he has a British accent
yeah he's british/pakistani
Lenny certainly had great vocals that worked well on some of APP's songs. I also thought he had a couple of potential hits on his 1979 solo album, One is a Lonely Number and Do It Right, so it was kind of a shame that wasn't a big breakthrough for him.
Wow we think alike those are my two favorite songs from Lenny's solo album. I came to that album late (2010). I remember loving both songs on first listen.
The wrecking crew is a prime example of how musicians didn’t get the recognition they deserved - Sadly, Lenny is another casualty
You shitting me??? The Wrecking Crew didn't get recognition??? Let me guess, You live under a fucking rock in the desert....Lenny is mediocre, the Wrecking Crew, world class. Jesus Christ....
He should have gotten paid royalties! Parson's ripped him off bad!
Try Don't Answer Me.
I am a huge fan of APP. It’s really too bad that Lenny, David Paton, Ian Bairnson and others did not continue with Parsons when he finally went live , after their 1990 first concerts .
Logistics? pay? Geographic challenges (Parsons of course moved to California) . I am probably wrong but it appears to me that Parsons just callously threw them all away and decided to build his own band from scratch . He was devoted to the music but not those who helped make it great. While the musicians he has in his live band are also very good, the original ones like Lenny Zakatek remain the gold standard. It seems they were treated poorly in this regard . If anyone can refute what I suggest with what did actually happen , I would appreciate knowing.
Also it’s too bad Eric Woolfson did not seek the limelight to receive the recognition he richly deserved while he was alive for his brilliant songwriting , lyrics and his unmistakeable , amazing voice.
So true, they should be treated like Kings!
Lenny Zakatek unplugged "I wouldn't want to be like you" Year 2023 ! ruclips.net/video/Oce0qf3hDOE/видео.html
Always felt bad for the actual bands for APP. Never get the credit they deserve.
It's sort of the way that studio musicians have always been treated. Can't say I love it, but it doesn't seem too unusual.
It's unfortunate that the mindset in the music industry is "screw or be screwed".
Great reaction guys.... but let's stop toying. You've sampled some of the emotion of Jeff's music and been overwhelmed by it, but you've only been tasting one course at a time. Imagine what it would be like to experience an entire meal of courses, each carefully crafted to interlink and take you deeper and deeper on an emotional journey like no other? Jeff has a few:
1) Concerto for a Rainy Day - If you think the end of Mr Blue Sky is awesome, wait till you arrive there on the back of the full concerto.
2) Eldorado.... Yes, the full album! All of it! Crazy idea perhaps, but it has been done by other reactors. I can tell from your reactions to date, that you will be permanently blown away by it's epic, cinematic brilliance and a storytelling prowess that takes you on a journey of musical magic that will give you that 'leaving the cinema after an epic' feeling.
3) Side 1 from On The Third Day - pre-big orchestra and choir but still driven by amazing strings (think electified string quartet), synths and souring melodies.
4) Time - Yep! Another whole album. But this one is perhaps Jeff's greatest 'unknown' work, having reached number 1 in the charts on release but largely forgotton by all but the keenest fans since then. It has aged very well and shows Jeff at his song writing best.
Either way... keep 'em coming.
It's so awful what happened to him with Alan Parsons Project. Horrifying
Great story but you know what we all want to really know is that drum lick on the eye in the sky why can't you get the drummer in here to play the eye in the sky for us and show us that really cool drum lick he does.
Is this what you're referring to ruclips.net/video/7T2HuSrAmCc/видео.html
Sounds like Lenny got ripped off.
He got far more than what he originally agreed to to sing that 1 song. That's far from being ripped off.
The people making and distributing the record were the one's taking a financial risk, same as investing in most business ventures... There's no guarantee of great sales or profits for all the efforts, regardless of the quality of the product. If the record had instead actually lost money would Lenny have been responsible to pay for a portion of the debt or give back his session pay? No.
Lenny agreed to the session(s) and it's terms, and gained a bit of notoriety from those sessions as well.
It was his own choice to participate as it was presented to him.
Not at all. He was called to sing, a hired gun. He got paid what he deserved. Alan Parsons was the man here, let's face it...
It sounded to me like he got five times the amount he originally agreed to, enough to pay his mortgage for 6 months for an hours work. Fortunately, for the fans, he was also happy enough to continue working with the APP.
Maybe it does sound unfair, but that's how the system works. If you don't write the song then you get paid like a session musician.
APP has always been a fav, Lenny:) I want to drink your bath water!!🎶💜🎶💜🎶
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