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Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick, Howard Massey

From the Beatles' recording engineer Geoff Emerick comes a fascinating memoirfeaturing never-before-told stories of the Fab Four.

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Geoff Emerick became an assistant engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1962 at age fifteen, and was present as a new band called the Beatles recorded their first songs. He later worked with the Beatles as they recorded their singles "She Loves You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand," the songs that would propel them to international superstardom. In 1964 he would witness the transformation of this young and playful group from Liverpool into professional, polished musicians as they put to tape classic songs such as "Eight Days A Week" and "I Feel Fine."

Then, in 1966, at age nineteen, Geoff Emerick became the Beatles' chief engineer, the man responsible for their distinctive sound as they recorded the classic album "Revolver," in which they pioneered innovative recording techniques that changed the course of rock history. Emerick would also engineer the monumental "Sgt. Pepper" and "Abbey Road" albums, considered by many the greatest rock recordings of all time. In "Here, There and Everywhere" he reveals the creative process of the band in the studio, and describes how he achieved the sounds on their most famous songs. Emerick also brings to light the personal dynamics of the band, from the relentless (and increasingly mean-spirited) competition between Lennon and McCartney to the infighting and frustration that eventually brought a bitter end to the greatest rock band the world has ever known.

Author Biography

Geoff Emerick joined Abbey Road Studios as an assistant engineer in 1962 and was promoted to full engineer in 1966, leaving to build the Beatles' Apple Recording Studios in 1969. After the dissolution of the Beatles, he continued to engineer for Paul McCartney, as well as artists such as Elvis Costello, America, Jeff Beck, and Art Garfunkel. He has won four Grammy Awards, including a Technical Grammy Award in 2003.

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Here, There and Everywhere Here, There and Everywhere My Life Recording the Music of THE BEATLES Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey GOTHAM BOOKS Foreword by Elvis Costello PROLOGUE 1966 CHAPTER 1 Hidden Treasure CHAPTER 2 Number Three Abbey Road CHAPTER 3 Meeting the Beatles CHAPTER 4 Early Sessions CHAPTER 5 Beatlemania CHAPTER 6 A Hard Day''s Night CHAPTER 7 Innovation and Invention: The Making of Revolver CHAPTER 8 It''s Wonderful to Be Here, It''s Certainly a Thrill: Sgt. Pepper Begins CHAPTER 9 A Masterpiece Takes Shape: The Pepper Concept CHAPTER 10 All You Need Is Love...and a Long Vacation: Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine CHAPTER 11 The Day I Quit: The Making of the White Album CHAPTER 12 The Calm After the Storm: Life After the White Album CHAPTER 13 An Anvil, a Bed, and Three Gunslingers: The Making of Abbey Road CHAPTER 14 And in the End: The Final Stroll Across Abbey Road CHAPTER 15 Fixing a Hole: The Apple Years CHAPTER 16 Drainage, Lizards, and Monsoons: The Making of Band On The Run CHAPTER 17 Life After the Beatles: From Elvis to the Anthologies EPILOGUE I Read the News Today, Oh Boy Acknowledgments Index * Foreword * by Elvis Costello It has been ten years since Geoff Emerick and I last worked together. One of my favorite memories of that last occasion is Geoff politely cursing the recording desk when it proved impossible to make it distort in an attractive and interesting fashion. So many of the sounds in today''s recording studios come out of little boxes that merely imitate the sonic innovations of the past. The range of choices is vast but, in unimaginative hands, it seems to create fewer surprises. Despite all the endless theorizing about pop music of the 1960s, the contribution of a small handful of engineers is still not fully appreciated. Inspired by particular musicians, these innovations brought about a change in the very nature of the recording studio, from a place where musical performances were simply captured in the best available fidelity to an experimental workshop in which the transformation and even the distortion of the very sound of an instrument or voice became an element in the composition. Not that you would ever hear any of this grand talk from Geoff Emerick. You could not meet a more modest and self-effacing man. When we first worked together in 1981, I had decided to take a very different approach to the recording of what would become the album Imperial Bedroom. My first album had been recorded in a total of twenty-four hours of studio time; the second took eleven days. Now the Attractions and I had booked AIR Studios for twelve weeks and granted ourselves the license to work on the sound of the record until it reflected the mood of the songs. We would hire anything that seemed to help: a harpsichord, a trio of French horns, or even a small orchestra. If we were not to be railroaded to that deadly place called "Geniusville," where every passing notion in the mind of the musical submariner is mistaken for sunken treasure (believe me, the recording studio can have more than a passing resemblance to the depths of the ocean), we would need someone to retain perspective, to bring some kind of order, and to occasionally act as a referee. This is how I met Geoff Emerick, a tall, gentle man with a resonant voice and, at that time, an occasionally jittery pattern of speech that I put down to his almost constant intake of vending-machine coffee that blended nicely with the taste and aroma of melted plastic. Over our weeks in the studio, an instrumental tone or sonic effect that seemed fleetingly familiar would suddenly appear, but we never got the impression that Geoff was shaping the sound from a clich

Details ISBN1592402690 Author Howard Massey Short Title HERE THERE & EVERYWHERE Pages 400 Language English ISBN-10 1592402690 ISBN-13 9781592402694 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY B Year 2007 Publication Date 2007-03-31 Publisher Avery Publishing Group Imprint Avery Subtitle My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles DOI 10.1604/9781592402694 Audience General/Trade Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2007-03-03 NZ Release Date 2007-03-03 US Release Date 2007-03-03 UK Release Date 2007-03-03
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