Wednesday, March 9, 2016

The Beatles: Beatles producer George Martin is dead – Tagesspiegel

The British music producer Sir George Martin, legendary Beatles producer, has died at the age of 90 years. This was confirmed by his management the CNN. Even ex-Beatle Ringo Starr announced the news on Twitter. “Thank you for all your love and kindness,” tweeted Starr and posted a picture of four musicians with her producer. Martin was also called the “fifth Beatle”, a title of nobility to the also shared with the Beatles manager Brian Epstein.

George Martin was born in 1926 in London for the world, he taught himself to play the piano. he first sought a career as a pilot on, was in the Royal Navy, did not have to in the Second world war but to the front. Following to his army, he studied in 1947 at the Guildhall School of Music, where he also received an oboe-training. In the fifties he produced jazz and comedy plates for EMI label Parlaphone, where he eventually rose to become the head of the creative department.

on “St. Pepper “he left the tapes running backwards

In 1962, he got to Beatles manager Brian Epstein to know who gave him screen test group. Martin took the tape to John Lennon contracted, became their master producer, arranger and mentor. His influence on the sound of the Beatles is unmistakable. for example, the string quartet accompaniment of “Yesterday” and the horn-Part originate in “for No One” by him. the psychedelic masterpieces “St. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band “and” Magical Mystery Train “from 1967 were heavily influenced by George Martin’s sound effects and the refined layered tracks he also ran times backwards.



George Martin also produced” Candle In the Wind “

Except” Let it Be “George Martin was involved in all Beatles albums. After the end of the group in 1970, he left EMI and worked with numerous other artists such as Jeff Beck, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Kate Bush, America, Cheap trick and Celine Dion. Ex-Beatles drummer Ringo Starr hired him for an album with standards from the thirties and Paul McCartney for the James Bond soundtrack “Live And Let Die”.

a huge success he had once 1997 piece dedicated to that produced by him second version of Elton John’s “Candle In the Wind”. the Lady Diana was to best-selling pop single in history. in 1998, George Martin to retire.

British Prime Minister David Cameron paid tribute to Martin as a “giant of the music”, which have created with the Beatles’ most enduring pop music in the world ” ,

Read again an excerpt from the memoirs George Martins “It started in the Abbey Road”, which are published in German in 2013. (AP, Tsp)

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