George Martin's Legacy

Through the incredible works of art he created with the Beatles, George Martin has touched all of our lives. We are fortunate to have worked with George on an eight-part documentary series that celebrates the art of music recording.
George was warm and generous and totally unpretentious. In working with him, we caught a few glimpses of how he was able to bring out the best in the Beatles. He believed in us, he inspired us to get the story right, but he never told us how to do it; he asked us instead to trust our instincts. We will miss him.
-Jeff Dupre and the Soundbreaking team
With thanks to Apple Corps and Adam Sharp.

[@MegaTriumph1]

George Martin what a blessing he was to this planet. George saw something in the Beatles only a genius like himself could know, that the talent that stood before him and the rest is as they say is history.

[@jamesdunn9714]

The 5th Beatle lives on in The Beatles recordings. What a gift he gave the world.

[@eve31471]

Thank you for airing this beautiful series. I watched it on PBS and have told everyone I know to watch it too! And, of course, thank YOU, Sir George.

[@bobdonnelly3758]

George Martin's work (especially withThe Beatles) will be studied and appreciated by our grand children's grand children.

[@deafears4025]

I'm waiting with baited breath to see Soundbreaking. I am sure it will be perfection because everything G.M. touched was and no doubt those that followed his lead are just as adept. Thanks for this Soundbreaking. I'm stoked.

[@031767sc]

what an inspiring human being...

[@jamiegustkey2573]

Martin and Emerick True and humble sound scientists

[@Brickcellent]

Ashamed to say I'm only really discovering the Beatles music now. Really annoyed that so many of those involved are dead before I even got to appreciate them. :(

[@jamespfitz]

How DARE they!?

[@stormhawk3319]

The Gentleman of English Music

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

George Henry Martin (Londres, 3 de enero de 1926-Oxfordshire, 8 de marzo de 2016) fue un productor musical, arreglista, compositor, director de orquesta, ingeniero de sonido y músico británico.

[@philwagner4673]

It's going to be great, can't wait to see it! PBS November 2016

[@PaulRamen]

The Beatles were an assignment to George, he didn't chose them. But then they got along and they made beautiful records.

[@DoreVibe]

Absolutely brilliant.

[@NickLAnderson]

🙏🏼

[@KhalDrogo76]

That’s Sir George Martin!

[@RunMDPhD]

Can't wait to see the documentary. When will it be available? I'm teaching a college course on Lennon and we are covering Strawberry Fields tomorrow morning...

[@Soundbreaking]

+Mark Davenport Thanks for watching! Soundbreaking will premiere on PBS in November 2016. Visit www.soundbreaking.com for festival dates, and connect with us on social media for more updates on the film.

[@Patritz]

+Soundbreaking i just watched the first episode tonight in Australia :) was awesome!

[@ricksalt6860]

So if Abbey Rd was selling gear , it wouldn't say Classic Gear From Smoke Free Studio . Someone told me The Beatles , George Martin and Engineer Geoff Emerick got in big trouble with the studio as they were using U47 to mic the kick drum , probably a tightly run ship with all the employees wearing their lab coats .

[@MrCasperexpress]

2:20 Paul we need more drugs... and I bought the last batch.

[@Johan93888]

George Martin didn´t always understand Lennon´s music. He prefered McCartney´s "vertical" melodies before Lennon´s vertical a n d h o r i z o n t a l melodies. Martin brought up in the 1930s, and seemed to prefer pop music sounding like Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. Martin couldn´t realize that Lennon had at least two kind of melody types: one with an outer mobility, and one with an inner mobility. In the outer mobility melody type the melody goes up and down in the scale, and uses several notes. In the inner mobility melody type, the melody consists of only one note, but the background changes instead., for example in Julia. --Martin preferred Love Me Do instead of Ask Me Why (The Mammut Book of the Beatles, Sean Egan, 2009). --Martin wasn´t sure he wanted to include No Reply in the album Beatles For Sale (Mark Hertsgaard, The Beatles, 1995). Most people think this is the best song in the album. --Up to 1966 Lennon c o m p o s e d most of The Beatles hits. In spite of that that Martin wrongly said 1966 that McCartney composed almost all of The Beatles music. Martin knew that Lennon alone composed and alone wrote the lyrics to The Beatles first hit Please Me Please Me. In spite of that Martin said that Please Please Me was written by Lennon and McCartney together. --Martin didn´t like Tomorrow Never Knows, when he heard it the first time (The Beatles, Bob Spitz, 2005, pg 601). --Martin didn´t like All You Need Is Love when he heard it the first time. George Martin leaned toward McCartney and muttered:" Well, it´s certainly repititive". (The book above, pg 700). --Martin didn´t like I Am The Walrus when he heard it the first time. "What the hell do you expect me to do with that?" he said. But he was p e r s u a d e d by Geoff Emerick to record it (Here There and Everywhere, Geoff Emerick, 2006, pg 213). Martin was were more close to McCartney, than to Lennon ( the book above pg 7). --1964 there was an album released by Martin called Off The Beatles Track, with Martin´s instrumentations. In I Want to Hold Your Hand, Martin completely missed the point: he didn´t put in the octave run in “…I want to hold your HAND!!!…”. The same mistake in Please Please Me: he didn´t put in the octave run in “…it so hard to reason with YOU!!!…”, the most important bits in these two songs. He wanted them to sound more commercial. The octave runs are too expressive. --George Martin even released an album with orchestartions of Beatles songs. Lennon´s Help is done absolute horrible, staccato without long notes.

[@klnine]

Tavistock stooges, I guess Zeno is on board

[@jamesmcgowen5885]

Fate never to be repeated paull meets John Paul brings george Ringo help out at gigs then joins its a Liverpool thing go to London they get nowhere its a London thing they meet george martin boom its a world thing fate never to happen again

[@sonicgrub]

Sad

[@AmpasaurusWrecks]

He was either the 5th, 6th, or 7th Beatle, depending who you talk to...

[@jamesdunn9714]

He was the 5th. It is incontestable.

[@hosoiarchives4858]

It wasn't George Martin it was his engineer

[@sheridangmail1277]

It was both

[@Johan93888]

George Martin didn´t always understand Lennon´s music. He prefered McCartney´s "vertical" songs before Lennon´s vertical a n d " h o r i z o n t a l" melodies. Martin brought up in the 1930s, and seemed to prefer pop music sounding like Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. Martin couldn´t realize that Lennon had at least two kind of melody types: one with an outer mobility, and one with an inner mobility. In the outer mobility melody type the melody goes up and down in the scale, and uses several notes. In the inner mobility melody type, the melody consists of only one note, but the background changes instead., for example in Julia. --Martin preferred Love Me Do instead of Ask Me Why (The Mammut Book of the Beatles, Sean Egan, 2009). --Martin didn´t like Tomorrow Never Knows, when he heard it the first time (The Beatles, Bob Spitz, 2005, pg 601). --Martin didn´t like All You Need Is Love when he heard it the first time. Lennon sat at the piano and prewied the song slowly, after which George Martin leaned toward McCartney and muttered: "Well, it´s certainly repititive". (the book above, pg 700). --Martin didn´t like I Am The Walrus when he heard it the first time. "Well John, to be honest, I have only one question: What the hell do you expect me to do with that?" (Here There and Everywhere, Geoff Emerick, 2006, pg 213). Martin was were more close to McCartney, than to Lennon ( the book above pg 7). --1964 there was an album released by Martin called Off The Beatles Track, with Martin´s instrumentations. In I Want to Hold Your Hand, Martin completely missed the point: he didn´t put in the octave run in “…I want to hold your HAND!!!…”. The same mistake in Please Please Me: he didn´t put in the octave run in “…it so hard to reason with YOU!!!…”, the most important bits in these two songs. He wanted them to sound more commercial. The octave runs are too expressive. --George Martin even released an album with orchestartions of Beatles songs. Lennon´s Help is done absolute horrible, staccato without long notes.