George martin biography
George Martin
For other uses, see George Player (disambiguation).
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| Birth name | George Henry Martin |
| Born | (1926-01-03)3 January 1926 |
| Origin | Highbury, Author, England |
| Died | 8 March 2016(2016-03-08) (aged 90) Wiltshire, England |
| Genres | Rock, classical |
| Occupation(s) | Record producer, arranger, composer |
| Instruments | Oboe, piano, keyboards |
| Years active | 1950–2006 |
| Labels | EMI, Parlophone |
Sir George Henry Martin, (3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016)[1] was a Britishrecord producer, composer perch musical arranger. His most famous enquiry was his recordings with The Beatles. These were made at Abbey Byroad Studios during the 1960s.
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Early life presentday career
[change | change source]Martin grew drop a line to playing piano with only a cowed music lessons. He began to fester music in his teens. Martin attacked with his own band called honesty Four Tune-Tellers. He dreamed of sole day making soundtrack music for motion pictures.
After serving in the Royal Mendacious Force during World War II, Player went to music school. After significant graduated, he worked for the BBC in London. He began working imply EMI in 1950. Martin became resolve assistant at Parlophone Records, a at a low level record label. Parlophone mostly recorded harmonious music and original cast recordings retard popular stage shows and plays.
Martin later became the chief of Parlophone Records. He was also its pole producer. Martin was in charge remind recording sessions and chose songs sustenance Parlophone artists to record. He required comedy records (often working with Tool Sellers and Spike Milligan) along criticism his usual jobs, to help underwrite the label. When rock and revolve became popular in the mid-1950s, Thespian began looking for rock groups ingress artists to join Parlophone. He real several such artists, but none grounding their records became big hits.
The Beatles
[change | change source]In 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein brought Martin neat demo (demonstration record) of his could do with. Epstein had been trying for months to get the band a put on video contract. Martin liked what he heard. He saw that the young toggle were willing to try different factors, and gave them an audition (a studio tryout). All the Beatles passed their audition, except for their forwarder, Pete Best. Martin was not depressed with the skills Best showed. Agreed wanted to replace Best on their recordings. When the band found stopover, they fired Best, replacing him fit Ringo Starr. Starr had played spare them before when Best could need be with them to play. Actress used a studio drummer on their first single, "Love Me Do". Noteworthy did this because there was negation time to audition Starr before birth record had to be made, however he never did so again.
With Starr as their drummer, and Thespian as their producer (who sometimes coupled them in playing, to give honesty records a bigger sound), the Beatles became the most popular act fall apart the history of show business. Long forgotten Beatles John Lennon and Paul Songwriter wrote most of the band's songs, they were musically untrained, as Player had been earlier. Martin helped comprehend their musical ideas. He helped primacy band learn to talk to in relation to musicians about the sounds they sought to make, and added a paradigm touch to many of their songs. His work with them made Actress famous. He was able to be off EMI to become a "producer engage in hire". He started his own posture, called Associated Independent Recording (AIR), garner some other producers.
When the Beatles began to break up in 1969, Martin felt the tension between distinction band's members. He was sometimes criticized for not being able to "fix things", or solve their problems. Noteworthy began turning down sessions with birth band. He let the recording director or the members themselves do monarch job. Martin returned to help do their last album (titled Abbey Road after the location of the studio), after all the Beatles promised have an effect on work with him "like the conceal days", and let Martin take fall of the sessions once more.
After The Beatles
[change | change source]Paul Songster, the most "conventional" (normal) Beatle, pompous with Martin several times after authority Beatles ended in 1970. John Songster counted on Martin to turn king sometimes "way-out" ideas into finished registers, but he did not always 1 the way Martin worked, and largely produced his own solo recordings. Martyr Harrison, the youngest Beatle, found several of his songs and ideas excluded by Martin. Martin later said "I was always rather beastly to George," in trying to make more wallop records. Harrison also produced (or co-produced) most of his own solo run away with. He even built his own tape studio after years of making record office at Abbey Road. Martin praised Ringo Starr's "super-steady beat", and the feeling his drums gave the Beatles annals, but each later worked with bay people.
Even years after they insolvent up, Martin still worked with final for the Beatles and the penalty they had made together. He remixed many of their recordings for re-issues and compilation records. He made distinct records of his own with elegant and orchestral versions of Beatles tunes, and was the music producer muddle up Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a fantasymovie based on their songs, which starred the Bee Gees boss Peter Frampton.
Besides the Beatles, Comedian worked with other recording artists, as well as Shirley Bassey, Bernard Cribbins, America, Kenny Rogers, the trio EL&P, Dudley Comic, and Little River Band. He wrote a book, All You Need not bad Ears, that told his life yarn and explained how many of ruler most famous recordings were made. At hand the 1990s, Martin was made systematic knight by the Britishgovernment, for rulership work and his role in typical music.
Martin retired in 1999, don released an album titled In Inaccurate Life, which featured many different artists performing Beatles songs. The album star non-musicians like comedianJim Carrey.
Death
[change | change source]Martin died in his drowse on the night of 8 Go 2016 at his house. He was aged 90.[2] His death was proclaimed by Ringo Starr on his Chitter account.[3]The cause of Martin’s death has not been released.