Beatles Producer George Martin Dead at 90

[Aloysius]

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

good innings

[Zombie Queen]

Oh boy.

[bluedad]

rip

[Harry_HH]

Great deal of the history of pop music passed away. Luckily all the recordings remain.

[Murky]

Rest Well Sir George Martin.

“When I joined EMI, the criterion by which recordings were judged was their faithfulness to the original. If you made a recording that was so good that you couldn’t tell the difference between the recording and the actual performance, that was the acme. And I questioned that. I thought, O.K., we’re all taking photographs of an existing event. But we don’t have to make a photograph; we can paint. And that prompted me to experiment.”

[Numanoid]

Not a Beatles fan, but he produced Ultravox Quartet which makes him a hero to me

RIP

[skipscada]

"Genious" is too frequently used in pop music. Let it be reserved for Mr. Martin and his (few) equals.

[Sequent]

RIP Sir George.

The age slowly passes... most of my co-workers have no idea who he was, or even who the Beatles were for that matter. But I do hear that Kanye West has discovered this old guy named Paul McCartney, who apparently does some fairly interesting stuff.

Anyway, a good friend of mine (who has also now passed away) were once talking about our musical heroes. Our heroes were not so much musicians per se so much as the producers. At the top of our lists was George Martin. He leaves behind him a big musical legacy... even if "the people in the street" don't realize it.

Do any of you recall seeing the BBC series on music that he had done once?

[mellotronaut]

Rest Well Sir George Martin.

“When I joined EMI, the criterion by which recordings were judged was their faithfulness to the original. If you made a recording that was so good that you couldn’t tell the difference between the recording and the actual performance, that was the acme. And I questioned that. I thought, O.K., we’re all taking photographs of an existing event. But we don’t have to make a photograph; we can paint. And that prompted me to experiment.”

[trimph1]

RIP

[Frantz]

Every record company turned down the Beatles. Only George at EMI gave them a chance. He was an integral part of the team that made them a success. He was too much of a gentleman to take points off their records (giving up millions in royalties). Goodbye Sir George.

[Kenmac]

This is very sad news. I consider myself lucky enough to have seen Sir George Martin in person. He was being interviewed by Dire Straits manager Ed Bicknell at Canadian Music Week here in Toronto back in 1998. I couldn't have been more than 25 feet away from where he was sitting on stage and I remember him looking quite good for his age, which at the time was 72.

There are so many moments I remember from that interview but one of the funniest was when George was talking about something music related, I forget what the topic was now, but then Ed Bicknell, who had various papers in his hands with questions written on them brought up the topic of the Beatles and George Martin said, "Forget the Beatles" and Ed said "Well there goes page 6 and 7". I guess George wanted to build up to the topic of the Beatles gradually.

George came across as a very nice, intelligent, soft spoken man and a true gentleman. I was honoured to have been in his presence for that 2 hour interview and I suppose I shouldn't be surprised he's gone at the age of 90 but he's one of those people who you think is always going to be there. Thanks for the music Sir George Martin. R.I.P.

[don1thedon]

Thank you for your inspiration George Martin. RIP

[thecontrolcentre]

RIP