George & Giles: From Me To You
September 12, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Blog, People
Ok…lots of Beatles this week…but hey…gotta go with the flow. Here is an article I just read in WSJ Magazine today about this successful father and son duo.
From Me to You
Mark Rozzo/WSJ Magazine
Sir George Martin and his son Giles have turned the Fab Four’s legacy into a 21st-century invasion with a CD reissue, a blockbuster video game and the Grammy-winning soundtrack for the Las Vegas show “Love”
The Beatles created nearly their entire recorded output at Abbey Road studios, but the place is no museum. On a recent visit, a classical session was thrumming along in the enormous Studio One, the canteen was full of chattering engineers and assistants, and Sir George Martin, the man who produced those Beatles records and happens to be the most successful producer in the history of sound, was back visiting for a few hours on his way to a garden party at Buckingham Palace celebrating the centenary of British Naval Aviation. (Martin, now 83 and with his regal bearing intact, served in the Fleet Air Arm in World War II.)
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