Drummer Ringo Starr took to Twitter to confirm the news, writing: “God bless George Martin peace and love to Judy and his family love Ringo and Barbara George will be missed xxx”.
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And then Sir George Martin, often called the fifth Beatle, strikes the same chord on the studio’s harmonium.
To reassure his fans, George RR Martin (who had raised a twist in the books impossible to reproduce in the series) has published a post on his blog as a tribute to its namesake, who was a fan of the Beatles.
MPG full member Tony Platt said: “Sir George set the tone for record production, and in particular British record production, by putting the artist at the centre of the music making process rather than treating them as a product”.
The Beatles have sold over 1.6 billion records. Martin was known for many things throughout out his storied career and is remembered as a record producer, conductor, musician, composer and arranger, mostly for his work with The Beatles during the peak of their career. He later worked with a diverse roster of performers, including Ella Fitzgerald, the Bee Gees, Jeff Beck, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Cheap Trick. Between 1962 and 1970, Mr. Martin produced 13 albums and 22 singles for the group, a compact body of work that adds up to less than 10 hours of music but that revolutionized the music world.
He never exhausted of retelling them, and no self-respecting Beatles freak ever exhausted of listening to them. The Beatles, led by the songwriting team of McCartney and John Lennon, became their own bosses, relying on Martin not for his vision, but for what he could do for theirs.
Martin was married twice, and had two children, actor Gregory Paul Martin and record producer Giles Martin, with whom his father remixed Beatles music for a 2006 Cirque du Soleil production, Love. For “Yesterday”, Martin persuaded McCartney that a string quartet would serve the song’s tender remorse.
Martin’s innovations become sort of a Steph Curry situation for people making multitrack recordings.
Abbey Road, the iconic studios in London where Martin and the band most famously worked, issued a statement honouring “Sir George” for “transforming music recording with his creative flair, innovation and passion”. Martin also encouraged the band to experiment with sound – playing tape backward or messing with the speed.
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“Once we got beyond the bubblegum stage, the early recordings, and they wanted to do something more adventurous, they were saying: “What can you give us?'” Martin told The Associated Press in 2002″. He was responsible for the orchestration in “A Day in the Life”.
