Eric Woolfson – keyboards, vocoder, backing vocals.Ian Bairnson – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals.Stuart Tosh – drums, percussion, backing vocals.David Paton – bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals."Don't let it Show" (Eric Woolfson demo) – 3:26."Extract 3 from The Alan Parsons Project Audio Guide" – 0:31."Some Other Time" (Complete vocal by Jaki Whitren) – 3:43."Extract 2 from The Alan Parsons Project Audio Guide" – 0:57."Extract 1 from The Alan Parsons Project Audio Guide" – 1:04."I Robot" (Hilary Western Vocal Rehearsal) – 1:33."U.S Radio Commercial for I Robot – 1:01."Day After Day" (early stage rough mix) – 3:40Ģ013 Sony Music Entertainment reissue (Legacy Edition) bonus tracks.
"I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" (backing track rough mix) – 3:28. "Breakdown" (early demo of backing riff) – 2:09. There was also a vinyl edition with the same mastering launched one month later.Īll songs written and composed by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, except where noted. The album was re-released under Legacy Recordings as a "legacy edition" in 2013 on CD, with an extra disc with unreleased bonus tracks, mastered by Dave Donelly. It was later released in Japan as an SHM-CD, with the same mastering. In 2007, as part of a larger campaign, Sony released a remastered version along with bonus tracks on CD. JVC released the album as a K2 edition, with Ammonia Avenue and Eye in the Sky. Classic Records has released the album in analogue form on 180-gram vinyl, as well as digitally on HDAD (24 bit/192 kHz DVD-Audio and 24 bit/96 kHz DVD-Video). Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL) released the album on standard vinyl (MFSL 1-084), UHQR vinyl (MFQR 1-084), Ultradisk One-Step vinyl (UD1S 1-041), and on aluminium CD (MFCD-1-804). Besides the 8-track, vinyl and compact-cassette releases, Arista also released the original aluminum CD along with the rest of the Project albums, up to that time. I Robot has been reissued multiple times in various formats since its initial release on vinyl, including numerous audiophile releases. The LP track "Breakdown" went into heavy rotation on AOR stations and continues to be played on classic rock radio. Three singles were released from the album: " I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You", "Don't Let it Show" and "Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)". The pose and angle of the photograph echoes that of the robot on the front cover. The original vinyl release has a gatefold-style cover the inside spread has the lyrics and a monochrome photograph of Parsons. The robot also appears on the label of the record. Over this is superimposed a painting of a robot with a stylised atom for a brain. The picture was taken without the permission of the airport management. The album cover photo features Storm Thorgerson's assistants in the escalator tubes of the circular Terminal 1 building of the Charles de Gaulle Airport outside of Paris. The artwork was created by the English art design group Hipgnosis. and a warning that his brief dominance of this planet will probably end, because man tried to create robot in his own image." The title of the final track, "Genesis Ch.1 v.32", follows this theme by implying a continuation to the story of Creation, since the first chapter of Genesis only has 31 verses. The story of the rise of the machine and the decline of man, which paradoxically coincided with his discovery of the wheel. As the rights already had been granted to a TV/movie company, the album's title was altered slightly by removing the comma in "I,", and the theme and lyrics were made to be more generically about robots rather than to be specific to the Asimov universe. 
The album was intended to be based on the I, Robot stories written by Asimov, and Eric Woolfson spoke with Asimov himself, who was enthusiastic about the idea. It was re-released on vinyl and cassette tape in 1984 and on CD in 2007.
The album draws conceptually on author Isaac Asimov's science fiction Robot stories, exploring philosophical themes regarding artificial intelligence. I Robot is the second studio album by British rock band The Alan Parsons Project, released on 8 July 1977 by Arista Records.
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