It has recently come to light that the initial plans for a time travel machine were acquired from a top secret, highly classified project, headed by fellow musician, record producer, audio engineer & songwriter Alan Parsons, Chris Rea took them whilst checking out Mr Parsons studio whilst saying he was considering Alan for his next album, the plans under code name The Alan Parsons Project, gave Chris Rea a head start on building the Turdis, leaving Alan Parsons with the music side of the project, where he got some very clever session musicians to record a few tracks, then work on the time travel machine with him, being absolutely furious about the time travel plans going missing, but being unable to do anything about it, as it sounded like a cheap conspiracy theory, he has, however pinched Chris Rea's special electric Brompton from outside the Co-op in Middlesbrough