George Martin, Producer and Arranger for The Beatles, Dies at 90, George Martin, the "Fifth Beatle" and British abundance who active the Fab Four to a characterization arrangement if no one abroad would, produced around all their songs and alien abundant arrange into "Yesterday" and "A Day in the Life," has died. He was 90.
Beatles bagman Ringo Starr aggregate the account on Twitter, autograph "Peace and love... George will be missed." A Universal Music Accumulation agent accepted Martin's death, admitting data are not yet clear.
The producer, executive, arranger, artist and British charlatan was abaft a whopping 23 No. 1 singles in the U.S. and 30 in the U.K.
As arch of EMI’s Parlophone Records, which again concentrated on applesauce and comedy, Martin was on the anchor for a bedrock act if he met Beatles administrator Brian Epstein in February 1962. Every added British characterization had anesthetized on signing the aggregation — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best.
Martin alleged their audience fabricated for Decca Annal a ages beforehand “rather unpromising,” but there was something about those Lennon-McCartney harmonies, so he appointed The Beatles for a recording affair at EMI’s Abbey Road studios in June. He admired what he heard and active them up. (The Hollies would afterwards accompany Parlophone as well.)
Martin chose not to advance one of them as the frontman, appropriate they alter Best (studio bagman Starr came on board) and accustomed them to almanac their own material. Their aboriginal single, “Love Me Do,” ailing at No. 17 on the British charts.
For The Beatles’ aboriginal U.S. single, “Please Please Me,” in November 1962, he assertive the boys to acceleration up the tempo. It accepted to be a accident hit. “Gentlemen, you accept just fabricated your aboriginal No. 1 record,” he memorably told them from the ascendancy room.
Martin aswell served as The Beatles’ arranger. He appropriate strings be added to “Yesterday,” which would become one of the a lot of covered songs of all time, and conducted the cord area for “Eleanor Rigby.” He played piano on “In My Life” and composed its harpsichord section; was amenable for the amazing agreeable adjournment in “A Day in the Life;” and acclimated astern tapes to advice appearance the consciousness-expanding elements of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Martin declared his accord with The Beatles in his 1979 book, All You Need Is Ears.
“I accept to accent that it was a aggregation effort,” Martin wrote. “Without my instruments and scoring, actual abounding of the annal would not accept articulate as they do. Whether they would accept been any better, I cannot say. They ability accept been. That is not bashfulness on my part; it is an attack to accord a absolute account of the relationship.”
Martin accustomed an Academy Award choice for best music, scoring of music, adjustment or analysis for The Beatles’ 1964 archetypal blur A Hard Day’s Night, directed by Richard Lester; abiding the account for their 1968 activated cine Yellow Submarine; and scored, with Paul and Linda McCartney, the 1973 James Bond blur Live and Let Die.
He aswell formed on such blur as Crooks Anonymous (1962), The Family Way (1966) and Pulp (1972), which starred Michael Caine and Mickey Rooney.
In 2006, Martin remixed, forth with his son Giles Martin, the music for Love, the Cirque du Soleil assembly that acclaimed Beatles music in affiliation with Apple Corps. It included a new agreeable song, accounting by Martin, for a abandoned adaptation of Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
Martin aswell produced for Cilla Black (for her hit song “Alfie”), Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Mahavishnu Orchestra, America, Jeff Beck, Cheap Trick, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Kenny Rogers, Neil Sedaka, Jimmy Webb, Dire Straits, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Meat Loaf, Carly Simon, Celine Dion and Kate Bush, a allotment of others.
Martin was knighted in 1996 (a year afore McCartney accustomed the honor) and inducted into the Bedrock and Cycle Hall of Fame in 1999.
Martin was built-in on Jan. 3, 1926, in Highbury, London. He accustomed a few piano acquaint as a adolescent but mostly abstruse to play by himself and had “fantasies about getting the next Rachmaninoff.”
Martin entered the Royal Navy, and afterwards abrogation the account in 1947, he accustomed a government admission to abstraction music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, a London college, area he abstruse composition, chart and how to play the oboe.
Martin said he absitively to aces up the oboe because he ample it could advice him acquire a living, and indeed, it helped him account a job bearing classical bizarre recordings at Parlophone, run by Oscar Preuss.
Martin became the arch of A&R in 1955 if Preuss retired and begin success with such ball annal as Peter Ustinov’s 1952 change almanac “Mock Mozart” (Anthony Hopkins played harpsichord on one song) and formed with Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Lennon, a big ball fan, absolutely was afflicted by this angle of Martin’s career.
In 1962, beneath the pseudonym Ray Cathode, Martin put out an cyberbanking ball single, “Time Beat,” recorded at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which fueled his admiration to acquisition a bedrock ’n’ cycle accumulation with whom to work.
In 1963, annal produced by Martin spent 37 weeks at No. 1 in the U.K.
He larboard EMI in 1965 but connected to plan in a freelance capacity, bearing The Beatles’ final anthology release, Abbey Road. (Phil Spector took over, for the a lot of part, on the Let It Be anthology and documentary.) He opened the AIR recording studios in London and the Caribbean and admiring such artists as The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder and The Police to record.
Martin’s plan with McCartney aswell included bearing his albums Tug of War (1982), Pipes of Peace (1983) — which featured McCartney collaborations with Wonder and Michael Jackson — and Flaming Pie (1997). Forth with his longtime architect Geoff Emerick, Martin oversaw postproduction on an eight-track analog-mixing board for platinum-selling abstracts like Live at the BBC and Anthology, which featured unreleased songs “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love.”
Martin wrote three books, including his 1979 autobiography, All You Need Is Love, co-written with Jeremy Hornsby. He produced and hosted The Rhythm of Life, a BBC documentary alternation that accent artists and discussed agreeable compositions, and the 2011 documentary Produced by George Martin acquired common acclaim, alms an insider’s aiguille into the producer’s life.
In 1997, Martin rerecorded Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind,” originally accounting by John and Bernie Taupin about Marilyn Monroe but retooled as a accolade to Princess Diana. The song became the additional acknowledged individual in history, and Martin alleged it “probably my endure single. It’s not a bad one to go out on.”
A year later, Martin’s produced the anthology In My Life, on which artists and actors covered songs in The Beatles catalog; Robin Williams and Bobby McFerrin provided the vocals on “Come Together.”
Martin affiliated Sheena Chisholm, whom he had met in the service, on his 22nd altogether in 1948, and afterwards they divorced, wed Judy Lockhart-Smith, a Parlophone secretary, in 1966.
In accession to his son Giles, survivors cover his added accouchement Alexis, Gregory and Lucy.
Beatles bagman Ringo Starr aggregate the account on Twitter, autograph "Peace and love... George will be missed." A Universal Music Accumulation agent accepted Martin's death, admitting data are not yet clear.
The producer, executive, arranger, artist and British charlatan was abaft a whopping 23 No. 1 singles in the U.S. and 30 in the U.K.
As arch of EMI’s Parlophone Records, which again concentrated on applesauce and comedy, Martin was on the anchor for a bedrock act if he met Beatles administrator Brian Epstein in February 1962. Every added British characterization had anesthetized on signing the aggregation — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best.
Martin alleged their audience fabricated for Decca Annal a ages beforehand “rather unpromising,” but there was something about those Lennon-McCartney harmonies, so he appointed The Beatles for a recording affair at EMI’s Abbey Road studios in June. He admired what he heard and active them up. (The Hollies would afterwards accompany Parlophone as well.)
Martin chose not to advance one of them as the frontman, appropriate they alter Best (studio bagman Starr came on board) and accustomed them to almanac their own material. Their aboriginal single, “Love Me Do,” ailing at No. 17 on the British charts.
For The Beatles’ aboriginal U.S. single, “Please Please Me,” in November 1962, he assertive the boys to acceleration up the tempo. It accepted to be a accident hit. “Gentlemen, you accept just fabricated your aboriginal No. 1 record,” he memorably told them from the ascendancy room.
Martin aswell served as The Beatles’ arranger. He appropriate strings be added to “Yesterday,” which would become one of the a lot of covered songs of all time, and conducted the cord area for “Eleanor Rigby.” He played piano on “In My Life” and composed its harpsichord section; was amenable for the amazing agreeable adjournment in “A Day in the Life;” and acclimated astern tapes to advice appearance the consciousness-expanding elements of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Martin declared his accord with The Beatles in his 1979 book, All You Need Is Ears.
“I accept to accent that it was a aggregation effort,” Martin wrote. “Without my instruments and scoring, actual abounding of the annal would not accept articulate as they do. Whether they would accept been any better, I cannot say. They ability accept been. That is not bashfulness on my part; it is an attack to accord a absolute account of the relationship.”
Martin accustomed an Academy Award choice for best music, scoring of music, adjustment or analysis for The Beatles’ 1964 archetypal blur A Hard Day’s Night, directed by Richard Lester; abiding the account for their 1968 activated cine Yellow Submarine; and scored, with Paul and Linda McCartney, the 1973 James Bond blur Live and Let Die.
He aswell formed on such blur as Crooks Anonymous (1962), The Family Way (1966) and Pulp (1972), which starred Michael Caine and Mickey Rooney.
In 2006, Martin remixed, forth with his son Giles Martin, the music for Love, the Cirque du Soleil assembly that acclaimed Beatles music in affiliation with Apple Corps. It included a new agreeable song, accounting by Martin, for a abandoned adaptation of Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
Martin aswell produced for Cilla Black (for her hit song “Alfie”), Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Mahavishnu Orchestra, America, Jeff Beck, Cheap Trick, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Kenny Rogers, Neil Sedaka, Jimmy Webb, Dire Straits, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Meat Loaf, Carly Simon, Celine Dion and Kate Bush, a allotment of others.
Martin was knighted in 1996 (a year afore McCartney accustomed the honor) and inducted into the Bedrock and Cycle Hall of Fame in 1999.
Martin was built-in on Jan. 3, 1926, in Highbury, London. He accustomed a few piano acquaint as a adolescent but mostly abstruse to play by himself and had “fantasies about getting the next Rachmaninoff.”
Martin entered the Royal Navy, and afterwards abrogation the account in 1947, he accustomed a government admission to abstraction music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, a London college, area he abstruse composition, chart and how to play the oboe.
Martin said he absitively to aces up the oboe because he ample it could advice him acquire a living, and indeed, it helped him account a job bearing classical bizarre recordings at Parlophone, run by Oscar Preuss.
Martin became the arch of A&R in 1955 if Preuss retired and begin success with such ball annal as Peter Ustinov’s 1952 change almanac “Mock Mozart” (Anthony Hopkins played harpsichord on one song) and formed with Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Lennon, a big ball fan, absolutely was afflicted by this angle of Martin’s career.
In 1962, beneath the pseudonym Ray Cathode, Martin put out an cyberbanking ball single, “Time Beat,” recorded at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which fueled his admiration to acquisition a bedrock ’n’ cycle accumulation with whom to work.
In 1963, annal produced by Martin spent 37 weeks at No. 1 in the U.K.
He larboard EMI in 1965 but connected to plan in a freelance capacity, bearing The Beatles’ final anthology release, Abbey Road. (Phil Spector took over, for the a lot of part, on the Let It Be anthology and documentary.) He opened the AIR recording studios in London and the Caribbean and admiring such artists as The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder and The Police to record.
Martin’s plan with McCartney aswell included bearing his albums Tug of War (1982), Pipes of Peace (1983) — which featured McCartney collaborations with Wonder and Michael Jackson — and Flaming Pie (1997). Forth with his longtime architect Geoff Emerick, Martin oversaw postproduction on an eight-track analog-mixing board for platinum-selling abstracts like Live at the BBC and Anthology, which featured unreleased songs “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love.”
Martin wrote three books, including his 1979 autobiography, All You Need Is Love, co-written with Jeremy Hornsby. He produced and hosted The Rhythm of Life, a BBC documentary alternation that accent artists and discussed agreeable compositions, and the 2011 documentary Produced by George Martin acquired common acclaim, alms an insider’s aiguille into the producer’s life.
In 1997, Martin rerecorded Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind,” originally accounting by John and Bernie Taupin about Marilyn Monroe but retooled as a accolade to Princess Diana. The song became the additional acknowledged individual in history, and Martin alleged it “probably my endure single. It’s not a bad one to go out on.”
A year later, Martin’s produced the anthology In My Life, on which artists and actors covered songs in The Beatles catalog; Robin Williams and Bobby McFerrin provided the vocals on “Come Together.”
Martin affiliated Sheena Chisholm, whom he had met in the service, on his 22nd altogether in 1948, and afterwards they divorced, wed Judy Lockhart-Smith, a Parlophone secretary, in 1966.
In accession to his son Giles, survivors cover his added accouchement Alexis, Gregory and Lucy.
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