Eric Norman Woolfson

Eric Norman Woolfson (18 March 1945 – 2 December 2009) was a Scottish songwriter, lyricist, vocalist, executive producer, pianist, and co-creator of The Alan Parsons Project.

Woolfson was born into a Jewish family in the Charing Cross area of Glasgow, where his family owned the Elders furniture store. He was raised in the Pollokshields area on the south side of the city and educated at the High School of Glasgow.

Elders was based in a building in Glasgow at 335-45 Argyle Street which subsequently housed the 'flagship' branch of What Every Woman Wants, a retail chain created by Vera and Gerald Weisfeld and later sold to Amber Day a company controlled by Philip Green.

IT has been hidden behind a wall in an old Glasgow department store for decades. But a campaign is being launched to save a mural by the late artist Robert Stewart and put it back in the public eye. The artwork is in what was the Argyle Street branch of furniture store Elders, which used to bring international style into homes throughout the west of Scotland. The shop closed in 1979 and was replaced by What Everyone Wants, but has now been derelict for around 10 years.

Elders was owned by David Woolfson, whose youngest son Peter, 58, said: "A lot of older generations will remember coming into the department store and seeing the mural. It depicts all the countries in the world my father went to and was inspired by – Denmark, Germany and the Scandinavian countries. It would be great if a part of Elders could be saved."

See also

• Woolfson family