By Brooke Ivy Johnson, Metro | Alan Parsons – the iconic producer and engineer whose early career included work on Abbey Road and Let It Be – has issued a blistering warning after discovering that fraudsters have been releasing music under his name.
Parsons revealed that he had become a victim of the growing wave of artist impersonation scams, a trend plaguing streaming platforms as opportunists upload their own material or AI-generated tracks and pass them off as the work of established musicians.
In some cases, scammers even tag well-known artists as ‘collaborators’ to force their way onto high-traffic profile pages and algorithmic playlists.
Parsons said he was stunned to learn that bogus songs were circulating under his identity.
He wrote: ‘It has come to my attention that a few clever and unscrupulous scammers have been posting music online while pretending to be me.’
‘They’ve been gathering up streams, attention, and possibly even invitations to tea under my name… These blatant infringements have nothing whatsoever to do with me.’
The producer didn’t hold back, skewering both the impersonators and the systems enabling them: ‘Let me be crystal clear – I have not released these songs, authorised these songs, hummed these songs, or even accidentally sat on a keyboard and come up with anything resembling these songs,’ he said.
‘What a strange time we live in, when an imposter can write a tune, or have a toaster write it for him, slap my name on it as the artist, and then have a faceless algorithm give it life.’
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