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Geoffrey Emerick (born 1946 in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
) is a recording studio audio engineer, who is best known for his work with the Beatles
The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
' albums Revolver
Revolver (album)

Revolver is the seventh album by The Beatles, released on 5 August 1966. The album showcased a number of new stylistic developments which would become more pronounced on later albums....
, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the United Kingdom rock music band The Beatles. Recorded over a 129-day period beginning on 6 December 1966, the album was released on 1 June 1967 in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States....
, The Beatles
The Beatles (album)

The Beatles is the ninth official U.K. album and the fifteenth U.S. album by The Beatles, a double album 1968 in music. It is more commonly known as The White Album as it has no text other than the band's name on its plain white sleeve....
 and Abbey Road
Abbey Road (album)

Abbey Road is the eleventh official U.K. album and seventeenth U.S. album released by The Beatles. Though work on Abbey Road began in April 1969, making it the final album recorded by the band, Let It Be was the last album released before the Beatles' dissolution in 1970....
.

The first album he did with the Beatles working as main recording engineer was Revolver
Revolver (album)

Revolver is the seventh album by The Beatles, released on 5 August 1966. The album showcased a number of new stylistic developments which would become more pronounced on later albums....
, and "Tomorrow Never Knows
Tomorrow Never Knows

"Tomorrow Never Knows" is the final track of The Beatles' 1966 studio album Revolver . It is credited as a Lennon/McCartney song, but was written primarily by John Lennon....
" was the first track he worked on, after having taken over the engineering duties from Norman Smith who became a producer
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
.

It was Emerick's innovation to record John Lennon
John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
's vocal through a Leslie speaker
Leslie speaker

The Leslie speaker is a specially constructed amplifier/loudspeaker used to create special audio effects utilizing the Doppler effect. Named after its inventor, Donald Leslie, it is particularly associated with the Hammond organ....
 on that song, to get the ethereal sound Lennon wanted.






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Geoffrey Emerick (born 1946 in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
) is a recording studio audio engineer, who is best known for his work with the Beatles
The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
' albums Revolver
Revolver (album)

Revolver is the seventh album by The Beatles, released on 5 August 1966. The album showcased a number of new stylistic developments which would become more pronounced on later albums....
, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the United Kingdom rock music band The Beatles. Recorded over a 129-day period beginning on 6 December 1966, the album was released on 1 June 1967 in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States....
, The Beatles
The Beatles (album)

The Beatles is the ninth official U.K. album and the fifteenth U.S. album by The Beatles, a double album 1968 in music. It is more commonly known as The White Album as it has no text other than the band's name on its plain white sleeve....
 and Abbey Road
Abbey Road (album)

Abbey Road is the eleventh official U.K. album and seventeenth U.S. album released by The Beatles. Though work on Abbey Road began in April 1969, making it the final album recorded by the band, Let It Be was the last album released before the Beatles' dissolution in 1970....
.

The first album he did with the Beatles working as main recording engineer was Revolver
Revolver (album)

Revolver is the seventh album by The Beatles, released on 5 August 1966. The album showcased a number of new stylistic developments which would become more pronounced on later albums....
, and "Tomorrow Never Knows
Tomorrow Never Knows

"Tomorrow Never Knows" is the final track of The Beatles' 1966 studio album Revolver . It is credited as a Lennon/McCartney song, but was written primarily by John Lennon....
" was the first track he worked on, after having taken over the engineering duties from Norman Smith who became a producer
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
.

It was Emerick's innovation to record John Lennon
John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
's vocal through a Leslie speaker
Leslie speaker

The Leslie speaker is a specially constructed amplifier/loudspeaker used to create special audio effects utilizing the Doppler effect. Named after its inventor, Donald Leslie, it is particularly associated with the Hammond organ....
 on that song, to get the ethereal sound Lennon wanted. He received Grammy Awards for the engineering of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the United Kingdom rock music band The Beatles. Recorded over a 129-day period beginning on 6 December 1966, the album was released on 1 June 1967 in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States....
 and Abbey Road
Abbey Road (album)

Abbey Road is the eleventh official U.K. album and seventeenth U.S. album released by The Beatles. Though work on Abbey Road began in April 1969, making it the final album recorded by the band, Let It Be was the last album released before the Beatles' dissolution in 1970....
. Emerick, like Beatles producer George Martin
George Martin

Sir George Henry Martin Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom record producer, arrangement and composer. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle"?a title that he owes to his work as producer or co-producer of all of The Beatles' original records as well as playing piano on some of The Beatles tracks?and is considered one o...
, brought an adventurous and experimental attitude to his work.

His post-Beatles career included work with Paul McCartney (including Band On The Run
Band on the Run

Band on the Run is an album by Wings , released in 1973. McCartney's fifth album since the breakup of The Beatles , it became Wings' most successful album and remains the most celebrated of McCartney's post-Beatles albums....
 [which netted Emerick another Grammy], London Town
London Town (album)

London Town is the seventh album by Wings and was released in 1978. The recording of the project was a long and tumultuous one, which saw the loss of two of its band members, the birth of a baby and the release of UK then top-selling single of all time - all during London Towns making....
, and Flaming Pie
Flaming Pie

Flaming Pie is an album by Paul McCartney, first released in 1997 in music. His first studio album in over four years, it was mostly recorded following McCartney's involvement in the highly successful The Beatles Anthology project....
), Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
 (for whom he produced Imperial Bedroom
Imperial Bedroom

Imperial Bedroom is a 1982 album by Elvis Costello. It was the second Costello album, following Almost Blue, not produced by Nick Lowe, the production duties handled by erstwhile The Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick....
 and All This Useless Beauty
All This Useless Beauty

All This Useless Beauty is a 1996 album by Elvis Costello. It was originally to feature Elvis' recording of songs he had written for other artists....
), Art Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel

Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an United States singer, poet and actor, best known as half of the Grammy Award winning folk music duo Simon & Garfunkel....
, America
America (band)

America is an English-American folk rock band, originally composed of members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek. The three members were barely past their teenage years when they became an overnight musical sensation in 1972....
, Supertramp
Supertramp

Supertramp were a United Kingdom progressive rock band that released a series of top-selling albums in the 1970s and early 1980s.Their early music included ambitious concept albums, but they are best known for their later hits including "Bloody Well Right", "Dreamer ", "Goodbye Stranger", "Give a Little Bit" and "The Logical Song"....
, Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick is a United States Rock music band formed in the 1970s and consisting of Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E. Carlos ....
, Nazareth
Nazareth (band)

Nazareth are a Scottish rock music band that had several hard rock chart-topper in the mid 1970s, including the Felice and Boudleaux Bryant songwriter ballad, "Love Hurts."...
, Split Enz
Split Enz

Split Enz was a successful New Zealand band during the 1970s and early 1980s featuring Phil Judd and brothers Tim Finn and Neil Finn. They achieved chart success in New Zealand, Australia and Canada during the early 1980s and built a cult following elsewhere....
, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Ultravox
Ultravox

Ultravox are a British New Wave music band that rose to prominence in the late 1970s/early 1980s. They were one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the early 1980s....
, Matthew Fisher
Matthew Fisher

Matthew Fisher is the Hammond organist, singer-songwriter, and the man responsible for the organ sound on the 1967 Single "A Whiter Shade of Pale"....
's first solo album "Journey's End," and Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an England rock music guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists — the others being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page — to have played with The Yardbirds....
, as well as Nellie McKay
Nellie McKay

Nellie McKay is an English-born American singer-songwriter, actor, and former stand-up comedy, noted for her critically acclaimed debut album Get Away from Me and for her Broadway debut in The Threepenny Opera , for which she won a Theatre World Award....
's critically acclaimed 2004 debut CD Get Away from Me
Get Away from Me

Get Away From Me is the two-disc debut album from singer-songwriter Nellie McKay. It was released on February 10 2004 by Columbia Records. McKay insisted on the two-disc set even though all content could fit on a single-disc....
. He was the sound engineer on Robin Trower
Robin Trower

Robin Trower is an England rock music guitarist who achieved success with Procol Harum during the 1960s, and then again as the leader of his own power trio....
's most popular album Bridge of Sighs
Bridge of Sighs (album)

Bridge of Sighs is guitarist and songwriter Robin Trower's second solo album. It was released in 1974 in music.The album was produced by organist Matthew Fisher, formerly Trower's bandmate in Procol Harum....
, and credited by both Trower and producer Matthew Fisher
Matthew Fisher

Matthew Fisher is the Hammond organist, singer-songwriter, and the man responsible for the organ sound on the 1967 Single "A Whiter Shade of Pale"....
 for that album's acclaimed sound.

In 2003, he received his fourth Grammy, this time for lifetime Technical Achievement.

In 2006, Emerick released his memoir, Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles (Gotham Books, ISBN 1-59240-179-1), co-authored by veteran music journalist Howard Massey.

On the April 3 2007 it was announced that Emerick would be in charge of a re-recording of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by contemporary artists, including Oasis
Oasis (band)

Oasis are an English rock music band that formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as "The Rain", the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul Arthurs , Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher ....
, The Killers
The Killers (band)

The Killers are an American alternative rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, formed in 2002. The group consists of Brandon Flowers , Dave Keuning , Mark Stoermer and Ronnie Vannucci Jr....
, Travis
Travis (band)

Travis are a Scotland alternative rock band from Glasgow, comprising Francis Healy , Dougie Payne , Andy Dunlop and Neil Primrose . Travis have twice been awarded British album of the year at the annual BRIT Awards, and are often credited with having paved the way for bands such as Coldplay, Keane and Snow Patrol....
 and Razorlight
Razorlight

Razorlight are an England-Sweden indie rock band formed in 2002. They are primarily known in their home countries, having topped the charts with the 2006 single America and its parent Razorlight , their second....
. Emerick used the original equipment to record the new versions of the songs, and the results were broadcast on BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio radio station and the List of most-listened-to radio programs in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult contemporary music or Album-orientated rock, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres....
 on the June 2, marking the album's 40th anniversary.

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