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« Reply #1200 on: March 09, 2016, 07:39:59 AM »

A colossus has fallen.
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« Reply #1201 on: March 09, 2016, 08:40:26 AM »

RIP Sir. Your musical influence will live on.
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« Reply #1202 on: March 09, 2016, 09:07:43 AM »

A thank you to George, you can see him conducting at the end of this video. featuring Mark Knopfler with Phil Collins on drums! RIP George. He deserved a Hancock!!  Hancock Award

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjKtfvKJSuk
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« Reply #1203 on: March 09, 2016, 09:23:38 AM »

Not just the Beatles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RTWk9QIKS0
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« Reply #1204 on: March 09, 2016, 09:35:28 AM »

Very sad news to wake up to.
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« Reply #1205 on: March 09, 2016, 11:25:16 AM »

Thank you for the music Sir George..  you changed all of our lives.
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« Reply #1206 on: March 09, 2016, 11:46:38 AM »

The Beatles (and many more) would have been the poorer without his input.
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« Reply #1207 on: March 09, 2016, 11:52:00 AM »


The Beatles (and many more) would have been the poorer without his input.


The Beatles may never have become anything like The Beatles as we know them without his input.  He allowed them to grow and experiment and had the knowhow to capture it all, to make great suggestions, to orchestrate, and to play keyboards back when they were too green to attempt it themselves.  The 5th Beatle for sure in my book.

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« Reply #1208 on: March 09, 2016, 11:54:21 AM »

I agree with every sentiment expressed here so far about George Martin, in particular that he was a colossus and the architect of modern pop music. Perhaps more personally, he shaped so many of the first records I ever heard. Not just the Beatles, Billy J Kramer's Bad To Me and Gerry & The Pacemakers but before even those, Peter Sellers and Bernard Cribbens and solid proportion of the records played on Junior Choice week in week out. Farewell George. It has been a privilege.
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« Reply #1209 on: March 09, 2016, 02:42:03 PM »

Thanks George for helping to create such inspirational music that enriched my teenage years and has continued to do so ever since. A true legend.
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« Reply #1210 on: March 09, 2016, 04:10:42 PM »

RIP Sir George... and percussionist Nana Vasconcelas whose passing has been reported.
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« Reply #1211 on: March 09, 2016, 05:19:36 PM »

RIP George, I had to laugh this morning when they were busy publicising him and showed a clip of the fans doing "Yesterday" (full band version) rather than his version with just Paul and string quartet. I suppose it highlighted the difference he made to their recorded output.
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« Reply #1212 on: March 09, 2016, 05:34:21 PM »


RIP George, I had to laugh this morning when they were busy publicising him and showed a clip of the fans doing "Yesterday" (full band version) rather than his version with just Paul and string quartet.


The fans, or the Fabs?

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« Reply #1213 on: March 09, 2016, 06:10:00 PM »

and a wry smile here just before 9am as the Today programme faded away with the once-banned "A Day in the Life"...
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RIP George, I had to laugh this morning when they were busy publicising him and showed a clip of the fans doing "Yesterday" (full band version) rather than his version with just Paul and string quartet.


The fans, or the Fabs?

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Fabs, sorry Jules, it's that bloody predictive tent striking back
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« Reply #1215 on: March 09, 2016, 08:13:35 PM »


Fabs, sorry Jules, it's that bloody predictive tent striking back


Turn it off, dude.  Free yourself from its inadequacies!

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« Reply #1216 on: March 10, 2016, 09:29:59 AM »

Sad news of the death of Jon English, I owned his Wine Dark Sea album which had some good tracks and covers on it. He was born in Hampstead and moved to Australia when he was 12 where he had most of his success, acting, performing it musical theatre, and recorded a few albums.  
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« Reply #1217 on: March 10, 2016, 09:54:00 AM »

Re-watched the excellent Produced by George Martin documentary on BBC4 last night. It just underlined what a wonderful man he was. It also acted as something of a requiem for the days of big studios in exotic places (Abbey Road, AIR Monserrat (not sure of my spelling there) now that we are in an age where everything is recorded on a laptop in somebody's bedroom. It just isn't the same.
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« Reply #1218 on: March 10, 2016, 10:01:14 AM »


Re-watched the excellent Produced by George Martin documentary on BBC4 last night. It just underlined what a wonderful man he was. It also acted as something of a requiem for the days of big studios in exotic places (Abbey Road, AIR Monserrat (not sure of my spelling there) now that we are in an age where everything is recorded on a laptop in somebody's bedroom. It just isn't the same.


Too true.  There's not much of a music industry left anymore, and certainly bands aren't getting those big recording budgets of yesteryear.  I won't miss the age of the pampered rock star, but I will miss the age of studio experimentation and truly great professional engineers.

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Re-watched the excellent Produced by George Martin documentary on BBC4 last night. It just underlined what a wonderful man he was. It also acted as something of a requiem for the days of big studios in exotic places (Abbey Road, AIR Monserrat (not sure of my spelling there) now that we are in an age where everything is recorded on a laptop in somebody's bedroom. It just isn't the same.


Too true.  There's not much of a music industry left anymore, and certainly bands aren't getting those big recording budgets of yesteryear.  I won't miss the age of the pampered rock star, but I will miss the age of studio experimentation and truly great professional engineers.

Jules


I think Richard Thompson highlighted this in an interview, and questioned whether there would be another Sgt Pepper or Dark Side of the Moon.
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