Giles Martin, son of the late Sir George Martin, sums up the Beatles‘ challenging 1968 opus The White Album as follows: The beauty of The White Album is its flaws, and its anger, and the fact that you get punched in the face occasionally. Martin was at the helm of the new 50th anniversary edition of the […]
Boasting signature classics like “Back In The USSR,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “Happiness Is A Warm Gun,” “Blackbird,” “Yer Blues,” “Birthday,” “Glass Onion,” “Helter Skelter” and “Julia,” The Beatles, more commonly known as The White Album, is a sprawling and ambitious double-album that chronicles the acceleration of the the Beatles‘ creative powers. Hot on the heels […]
Late Monday night, word came through that Geoff Emerick, legendary engineer whose work with the Beatles helped shape their legendary musical output, had passed away at the age of 72. In remembrance, here’s an interview writer Ken Sharp conducted with Emerick in the past … may he rest in peace. Coming aboard as chief engineer […]
Late Tuesday night, word came through that Geoff Emerick, the legendary recording engineer whose extensive work with the Beatles was revered and celebrated the world over, had passed away at the age of 72 from a heart attack. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Geoff Emerick, who has sadly passed. Geoff’s work […]
If you’ve been in or around London lately, there’s a chance you’ve seen Sir Paul McCartney out in public. Just a few weeks ago, Macca and comedian/late night host James Corden took a fun musical tour of Liverpool, and for his next act Sir Paul returned to another iconic spot: Abbey Road. Before playing a […]
The Beach Boys‘ immense song catalog is already filled with rich melodies, timeless classics and songwriting perfection — so adding in the accompaniment of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra makes for quite a treat. Today, a new album was released by Capitol/UMG that features the Beach Boys’ songs with newly arranged orchestral accompaniments. It’s very enjoyable […]
On June 9, a special new release pairing several classic Beach Boys songs with the pristine arrangements of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will be released. Titled, simply, The Beach Boys with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, this new studio compilation features the Beach Boys’ original vocal recordings with new symphonic touches recorded by the Orchestra at […]
Don’t you – think of Simple Minds as a heritage act. Unlike other bands that formed in the late ‘70s, this Glasgow alt-rock group doesn’t do nostalgia package tours. It releases new studio albums semi-regularly and still retains the original creative core of singer Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill. “I’ve never criticized anyone for […]
“Lab coats? Yeah, I suppose there were people in lab coats. Engineers,” Roger Waters says after I hand him a set of coasters with images of equipment from Abbey Road Studios in the 1960s that I’d spied sitting on a coffee table while waiting for him to arrive at a Manhattan recording studio for our […]
Long before Fleetwood Mac owned the Billboard record charts for years in the mid to late ’70s with a string of mega-selling albums/singles culled from the albums Fleetwood Mac, Rumours and Tusk, their formative sound was rooted in something altogether different. Fleetwood Mac mark 1 drew from a heavy blues-rock sound that stood in diametric opposition to their reputation as traditional pop […]
