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George Martin<\/strong><\/a>, the crucial man behind the desk as The Beatles<\/strong><\/a> set about revolutionizing popular music in the 1960s, has died at the age of 90.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “We can confirm that Sir George Martin passed away peacefully at home yesterday evening, Tuesday 8 March,” his representative Adam Sharp confirmed in a statement. “The family would like to thank everyone for their thoughts, prayers and messages of support.”<\/p>\n After auditions, The Beatles first began work with the initially unimpressed, EMI employee George Martin in early September 1962, recording what would become their first single – ‘Love Me Do<\/strong><\/em>‘ – soon after.<\/p>\n Despite the producer’s background in classical music and novelty records, it was a professional relationship which for most of the remaining decade would go onto entirely reshape the medium of the album, and of what could be achieved in the studio.<\/p>\n Marin developed an uncanny ability to sonically interpret his charges’ often vague requests, concocting the ragtime circus ringleader sound of ‘Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite<\/strong><\/em>‘, for example, from John Lennon<\/strong> simply stating that he wanted to, ‘to smell the sawdust on the floor’.<\/p>\n His credits are by no means restricted to The Beatles however, consisting also of Bond themes, musicals and film scores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" George Martin, the crucial man behind the desk as The Beatles set about revolutionizing popular music in the 1960s, has died at the age of 90.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4543,1137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.live4ever.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.live4ever.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.live4ever.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.live4ever.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.live4ever.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.live4ever.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.live4ever.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.live4ever.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.live4ever.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}“In a career that spanned seven decades he was recognised globally as one of music\u2019s most creative talents and a gentleman to the end. The family ask that their privacy be respected at this time.\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\n