Geoff Emerick, Beatles Engineer, Dead at 72

Geoff Emerick, Beatles Engineer, Dead at 72
Geoff Emerick with Ringo Starr in 1968 (Monti Spry/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Geoff Emerick, an audio engineer greatest recognized for his work with the Beatles, has died, Rolling Stone reports. His agent confirmed that he had a coronary heart assault. He was 72.

Emerick was an audio engineer who labored with EMI with quite a lot of bands. His first album working with the Beatles as chief engineer, below producer George Martin, was Revolver, and his first track he helped lower was “Tomorrow Never Knows.” He continued working with the band on their subsequent albums Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles (White Album), and Abbey Road. Emerick additionally labored on a number of Paul McCartney albums together with Band on the Run. His different credit embrace the Zombies’ Odessey and Oracle, Elvis Costello’s Imperial Bedroom, and data by Kate Bush, Tim Hardin, Cheap Trick, Chris Bell, Badfinger, Supertramp, and plenty of others.

Emerick gained Grammys for his work on Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper’s, and Band on the Run. In 2006, he launched his memoir Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles.

 
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