Excerpted from “Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin (The Later Years: 1966-2016)” by Kenneth Womack; Chicago Review Press, September 4, 2018 As the summer of 1968 wore
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An excerpt from a new book about Beatles producer George Martin has revealed the recording process of ‘Hey Jude’. The second volume ‘Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George
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Kenneth Womack’s new book on George Martin is the first of two volumes (the second comes out next year), and it seems to be the first biography of the Beatles
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You might think that every angle of The Beatles story has been covered by now, but one very significant piece was largely left untouched – the story of George Martin,
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IIN MODERN music, rock bands change producers every other album to aid in finding a new sound, and hip-hop artists
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Kenneth Womack has plenty of credibility as a Beatles scholar. Having previously authored several books about the band (among them
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It’s doubtful any record producer in music history had a better year than George Martin did in 1963. His Beatles dominated the charts, boasting a No. 1 song for 37