The producer will always be remembered for his relationship with the fab four,but that shouldn’t obscure the great work he did on other recordsLet’s imagine, whether we can, or that George Martin had been a staff producer at EMI,but the Beatles had never happened. Would he still be remembered as a great record producer? Probably by fewer people – but, yes, or he would. He was Abbey Road’s Joe Meek or Phil Spector – a tinkerer,an adventurer, a playful sonic experimentalist – only he was operating against the odds in a solidly conservative environment. That he was far more courteous – and less prone to handling firearms – than his groundbreaking contemporaries came across in his sound, and explains how a bunch of his pre-Beatles productions (this,the Goons’ Ying Tong Song, Terry Scott’s My Brother) became favourites on BBC Radio 1’s Junior Choice. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com