![]() ![]() In 2006, he released the book “Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles. Pepper’s” and “Abbey Road” as well as Paul McCartney and Wings’ “Band on the Run.” He is credited on albums by Elvis Costello (“Imperial Bedroom”), Badfinger, Supertramp, Cheap Trick and America, among many others. Geoffrey Ernest Emerick (5 December 1945 2 October 2018) was an English sound engineer and record producer who worked with the Beatles on their albums Revolver (1966), Sgt. “The night we put the orchestra on it, the whole world went from black and white to color,” he said.Įmerick was a Grammy Award winner for his work on “Sgt. Speaking to Variety in July 2017, Emerick cited “A Day in the Life” as a high point of his time with the Beatles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Other than George Martin, Emerick was the behind-the-scenes brains that helped shape the Beatles sound. When John Lennon asked Emerick to make him sound like “the Dalai Lama singing on a mountain” for “Tomorrow Never Knows” on “Revolver ,” one of the effects Emerick used was to put Lennon’s voice through a spinning Leslie speaker. As Andy Babiuk describes in the book “Beatles Gear,” Emerick’s “open-minded approach and willingness to ignore standard recording practices and techniques when necessary was exactly what the group was looking for.” ![]()
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