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Post by B on Mar 9, 2016 1:18:05 GMT -5
George Martin, Producer and Arranger for The Beatles, Dies at 90 www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/george-martin-producer-and-arranger-for-the-beatles-dies-at-90/ar-AAgy6z7?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=iehp"George Martin, the "Fifth Beatle" and British treasure who signed the Fab Four to a label contract when no one else would, produced virtually all their songs and introduced lavish arrangements into "Yesterday" and "A Day in the Life," has died. He was 90. Beatles drummer Ringo Starr shared the news on Twitter, writing "Peace and love... George will be missed." A Universal Music Group spokesperson confirmed Martin's death, though details are not yet clear. The producer, executive, arranger, musician and British knight was behind a whopping 23 No. 1 singles in the U.S. and 30 in the U.K. As head of EMI’s Parlophone Records, which then concentrated on jazz and comedy, Martin was on the lookout for a rock act when he met Beatles manager Brian Epstein in February 1962. Every other British label had passed on signing the foursome — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best.... "more at link
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Post by mysteryhair on Mar 9, 2016 1:42:17 GMT -5
As Ringo shared on his twitter page, George Martin has passed away.
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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Post by Jude on Mar 9, 2016 5:39:30 GMT -5
Many people will choose to remember The Fifth Beatle today by listening to Strawberry Fields Forever and Yesterday--songs where his genius touch as an arranger can be most clearly felt. Me, I chose to listen to In My Life just after I read the news. His sped-up piano solo really makes the song.
Rest in peace, Beatle George (all two of you).
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Post by Jude on Mar 9, 2016 5:46:48 GMT -5
From Paul's Facebook page:
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Post by iameye on Mar 9, 2016 8:35:38 GMT -5
lol
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Mar 9, 2016 17:26:55 GMT -5
This one's a biggie... Rest in peace, George.
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Post by B on Mar 10, 2016 19:57:05 GMT -5
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Post by superman on Mar 11, 2016 1:59:10 GMT -5
For a couple of decades I thought that the bust seen on the album cover of Sgt. Pepper (on the right between the base drum and the redhead doll in the green dress) was George
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Post by hotman637 on Mar 11, 2016 13:22:48 GMT -5
As Ringo shared on his twitter page, George Martin has passed away. God bless George Martin peace and love to Judy and his family love Ringo and Barbara George will be missed xxx The "George Martin" with the early Beatles does not look much like the "George Martin" that just died. Another probable replacement!
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Post by Jude on Mar 15, 2016 1:58:03 GMT -5
As Ringo shared on his twitter page, George Martin has passed away. God bless George Martin peace and love to Judy and his family love Ringo and Barbara George will be missed xxx The "George Martin" with the early Beatles does not look much like the "George Martin" that just died. Another probable replacement! Most people look fairly different after 50+ years of aging.
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Post by Paul Bearer on Mar 22, 2016 23:02:29 GMT -5
Try doing comparisons with George Martin from before 2005 to after 2005. I believe he was replaced somewhere around then.
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Post by violaine on Mar 23, 2016 18:08:33 GMT -5
Try doing comparisons with George Martin from before 2005 to after 2005. I believe he was replaced somewhere around then. really legitimately curious to know what you think the point of replacing him so late in his life was -- could you expound?
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Post by Jude on Mar 29, 2016 20:14:49 GMT -5
Try doing comparisons with George Martin from before 2005 to after 2005. I believe he was replaced somewhere around then. Sure. Here is in 2004 at the Silver Clef awards: And here he is in 2006 at the premiere of LOVE: Speaking of LOVE, replacing him in 2005 would have complicated production of that album, don't you think? Since I believe there exists photographs and footage of he and his son working on the album, and there an interviews from time period where Giles talks about the great time he had bonding with his father over the Beatles music, it seems to me very unlikely that he was replaced in 2005. The only think I can recall to suggest that George Martin knew something and could have been seen by TPTB as a threat was that article that quoted him as saying that there was a "code" hidden on LOVE (which Iamaphoney would claim to have solved and won his yellow 'LOVE' car as a prize). But that was reported on only one website, and an 80-year old half-deaf man hiding secret messages and then blabbing about it to a random site on the internet sounds just as crazy in retrospect.
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