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33. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 13; Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 297.
34. Martin, “Producer Series, Part 1,” 62.
35. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 190.
36. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 300.
37. Dowlding, Beatlesongs, 292; Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 301.
20: Sentimental Journeys
1. Womack, Beatles Encyclopedia, 1:4–5.
2. Beatles, Beatles Anthology, 347.
3. Leigh, Love Me Do, chap. 9.
4. Leigh, Love Me Do, chap. 9.
5. Martin, Playback, 185.
6. Giles Martin, interview with author, May 2, 2017.
7. Martin, Playback, 190; Michael Seth Starr, With a Little Help (Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, 2015), chap. 12.
8. Martin, Playback, 190; Starr, With a Little Help, chap. 12.
9. Martin, Playback, 189.
10. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 195.
11. Derek Johnson, “Next Beatle Album in Depth: NMExclusive,” NME, November 1, 1969, 11.
12. Leigh, Love Me Do, chap. 10.
13. Martin, Playback, 189; Gambaccini, Paul McCartney, 20; Johns, Sound Man, 140; Lennon, Lennon Remembers, 101–2.
14. Paul McCartney, press release, London, April 9, 1970, The Beatles Interview Database, www.beatlesinterviews.org; Martin, Playback, 189.
15. Leigh, Love Me Do, chap. 10; Williams, Phil Spector, 148.
16. John Harris, “Let It Be: Can You Dig It?,” Special limited edition, Mojo: 1,000 Days of Revolution: The Beatles’ Final Years—Jan 1, 1968 to Sept 27, 1970, March 2003, 132.
17. Martin, Playback, 195.
21: The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean
1. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 265.
2. Matthew Fellows, “Studio Profiles: AIR Studios,” Audio Media International, July 22, 2015, www.audiomediainternational.com/recording/studio-profile-air-studios/04644; Simaen Skolfield, interview with author, August 17, 2017.
3. Black, What’s It All About?, 222.
4. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 266.
5. Martin, “Listen to My Story,” n.p.
6. John Lennon and Yoko Ono, letter, Melody Maker, September 4, 1971, n.p.; Martin, Playback, 179.
7. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 256; Martin, “To Sir with Love.”
8. Martin, “To Sir with Love.”
9. Martin, “To Sir with Love”; Martin, Playback, 200.
10. Alan Barnes and Marcus Hearn, Kiss Kiss Bang! Bang! The Unofficial James Bond Film Companion (London: Batsford, 2003), 110–11; Skolfield interview, August 17, 2017; Martin, Playback, 204.
11. Martin, Playback, 204–5.
12. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 188.
13. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 189.
14. John Oates, Change of Seasons: A Memoir (New York: St. Martin’s, 2017), 160.
15. Martin, Playback, 201.
16. Martin, Playback, 209; Wesley Hyatt, The Billboard Book of Number-One Adult Contemporary Hits (New York: Billboard Publications, 1999), 147.
17. May Pang, interview with author, November 26, 2017; John Lennon, “Old Grey Whistle Test,” interview with Bob Harris, BBC, March 17, 1975.
18. Martin, “‘They Were My Boys.’”
19. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 162.
20. Skolfield interview, August 17, 2017; Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 268.
21. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 268.
22: “A Series of One-Night Stands”
1. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 195.
2. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 196
3. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 196.
4. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 197.
5. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 198.
6. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 198.
7. Martin, Playback, 206; Martin, “Producer Series, Part 1,” 64.
8. Martin, “Producer Series, Part 1,” 62.
9. Martin, “Producer Series, Part 1,” 60–61; Martin, Playback, 210.
10. Martin, Playback, 210.
11. Robert Christgau, “Consumer Guide Reviews,” Robert Christgau website, www.robertchristgau.com; Martin, Playback, 210.
12. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 146–47.
13. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 146–47.
14. Womack, Beatles Encyclopedia, 1:424.
15. Keith Badman, The Beatles Off the Record 2: The Dream Is Over (London: Omnibus, 2009), 211.
16. Badman, Beatles Off the Record 2, 211.
17. Badman, Beatles Off the Record 2, 211.
18. Christgau, “Consumer Guide Reviews.”
19. Leigh, Love Me Do, chap. 7.
20. Martin, Playback, 214.
21. Addey interview, December 12, 2017.
22. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 185.
23. Martin, Playback, 215.
24. Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup (New York: Harper, 2011), 256.
25. Martin, Playback, 215.
26. George A. Martin, interview with author, October 3, 2017.
27. Christgau, “Consumer Guide Reviews.”; Dave Marsh and John Swenson, eds., The New Rolling Stone Record Guide (New York: Random House, 1983), 628; Martin, Playback, 215.
28. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 268.
29. Stephen Fottrell, “Sir George Martin’s Caribbean Legacy: AIR Studios Montserrat,” BBC News, March 9, 2016, www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35761728.
30. Jeremy Hornsby, “Model Fifth Beatle,” letter to the editor, Times, March 11, 2016, 20.
31. Gregory Paul Martin, interview with author, March 10, 2016.
32. Martin, With a Little Help, 24; Philip Norman, John Lennon: A Life (London: Ecco, 2008), 783.
23: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
1. Martin, Playback, 233.
2. David Fricke, “Cheap Trick: All Shook Up,” Rolling Stone, March 19, 1981, www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/all-shook-up-19810319.
3. Tim Riley, Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music (New York: Hyperion, 2011), 630.
4. Martin, Playback, 213.
5. Martin, Playback, 241.
6. Martin, “Producer Series, Part 2,” 58.
7. Laurence Juber, Guitar with Wings: A Photographic Memoir, with Marshall Terrill (Deerfield, IL: Dalton Watson, 2014), 222.
8. Tom Doyle, Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s (New York: Random House, 2013), 211.
9. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 359; George Martin, interview with Gavin Hewitt, BBC Evening News, BBC, December 1980.
10. Martin, Playback, 245.
11. Martin, Playback, 244.
12. Kit O’Toole, Michael Jackson FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the King of Pop (Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, 2015), 247–48; Martin, “Producer Series, Part 2,” 54.
13. McCartney, Tug of War: Paul McCartney Archive Collection (Hear Music/Concord Music Group, 2015).
14. Stephen Holden, “Paul McCartney: Tug of War,” Rolling Stone, May 27, 1982, www .rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/tug-of-war-19820527.
15. Martin, “Producer Series, Part 2,” 58.
16. Martin, Playback, 236.
17. Martin, Playback, 235.
18. Martin, Playback, 234.
19. George Martin, ed., Making Music: The Guide to Writing, Performing, and Recording (New York: Quill, 1983), 8; Steve Morse, “Paperbacks,” Boston Globe, December 18, 1983, 1.
20. Martin, “Producer Series, Part 2,” 54.
21. Martin, “Producer Series, Part 2,” 54.
22. Martin, Playback, 253.
23. Martin, “Producer Series, Part 2,” 58.
24. Martin, “Producer Series, Part 2,” 58.
25. Martin, “Producer Series, Part 2,” 55.
24: Grow Old with Me
1. Joseph Hudak, “Kenny Rogers on Working with George Martin: ‘The Highlight of My Career,’” Rolling Stone, March 9, 2016, www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kenny -rogers-on-working-with-george-martin-the-highlight-of-my-career-20160309.
2. George Martin, interview with Richard Buskin, March 3, 1987, YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=evomc1xfM9s&t=103s.
3. David Fricke, “Capitol to Release Beatles CDs,” Rolling Stone, February 26, 1987, www.rollingstone.com/music/news/capitol-to-release-beatles-cds-19870226.
4. Martin interview with Buskin, March 3, 1987; Robert Rodriguez, interview with author, December 22, 2017.
5. Allan Kozinn, “The Beatles on Compact Disc: A Conversation with George Martin,” Beatlefan 9, no. 2 (1987): 8–10.
6. Martin, “Producer Series, Part 2,” 60.
7. Martin, “Producer Series, Part 2,” 60.
8. Martin, Playback, 266–67.
9. Martin, Playback, 267.
10. Jay Sweet, interview with author, November 26, 2017; George Martin, “Commencement 1989: George Martin’s Commencement Address,” Berklee College of Music, April 13, 1989, www.berklee.edu/commencement/past/1989.
11. John Kifner, “Devastated by Hurricane, Montserrat Starts to Rebuild,” New York Times, September 22, 1989, www.nytimes.com/1989/09/22/us/devastated-by-hurricane-montserrat-starts-to-rebuild.html; Martin, Playback, 294.
12. Nicholas Lezard, “Summer of Love,” Guardian, June 9, 1995, 6; Robin Blake, “Summer of Love,” Independent, June 18, 1995, 45.
13. Martin, Playback, 270; Skolfield interview, August 17, 2017.
14. Martin, Playback, 275.
15. Martin, Playback, 273.
16. Martin, Playback, 288; Anthony DeCurtis, “The Beatles: Live at the BBC,” Rolling Stone, January 25, 1995, www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/live-at-the-bbc-19910125.
17. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 364; Martin, Playback, 293.
18. Martin, Playback, 293; Womack, Beatles Encyclopedia, 1:90.
19. Martin, Playback, 293.
20. “Linda McCartney Service Reunites Three Beatles,” New York Times, June 9, 1998, www .nytimes.com/1998/06/09/arts/linda-mccartney-service-reunites-3-beatles.html.
21. Martin, Playback, 303.
22. Martin, Playback, 301.
23. “George Martin,” Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 1999, www.rockhall.com/inductees/george-martin.
24. George Martin, interview with Sue Lawley, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, November 19, 1995.
Epilogue: Swan Songs
1. Mark Espiner, “Sounds and Vision,” Guardian, June 30, 2001, www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jun/30/books.guardianreview1; Giles Martin interview, May 2, 2017.
2. Press kit for In My Life LP, October 1998, courtesy of Mark Lewisohn.
3. Sarah Zupko, “George Martin: In My Life,” PopMatters, October 1998, www.popmatters.com/recent/tv/film/P98740/music/.
4. Martin, Playback, 312.
5. Allan Kozinn, “The Beatles’ Producer, Still with Stories to Tell,” New York Times, June 17, 2003, www.nytimes.com/2003/06/17/books/beatles-producer-still-with-stories-tell-george-martin-has-found-life-after.html; Phil Hogan, “Carry That Weight,” Guardian, March 9, 2003, www.theguardian.com/books/2003/mar/09/biography.highereducation2.
6. Kurlander interview, November 8, 2017; Katie Nicholl, “George Harrison Close to Death,” Daily Mail, November 14, 2001, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-61825/George-Harrison-close-death.html.
7. Peter Hodgson interview, January 27, 2018; Martin, Playback, 182.
8. Womack, Beatles Encyclopedia, 1:306; Giles Martin interview, May 2, 2017.
9. Womack, Beatles Encyclopedia, 1:306; David Stark, interview with author, November 22, 2017.
10. Tom Jamison, “Lives Remembered: Sir George Martin,” Able, March 2016, http://ablemagazine.co.uk/lives-remembered-sir-george-martin/; Giles Martin interview, May 2, 2017; Joe Johnson, “Meeting George Martin: A Personal Journey,” Beatle Brunch (blog), March 10, 2016, https://beatlebrunch.wordpress.com/2016/03/10 /meeting-george-martin-a-personal-journey/.
11. Mark Richardson, “The Beatles’ Love,” Pitchfork, November 30, 2006, http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9669-love/.
12. Geoff Emerick, interview with James Marcus, Netscape, February 2007.
13. Black, What’s It All About?, 353, 391–92.
14. Mark Lewisohn, interview with author, August 16, 2014; Gregory Paul Martin interview, March 10, 2016.
15. Sheena McKenzie, “Who Was the Real Fifth Beatle?,” CNN.com, March 9, 2016, www .cnn.com/2016/03/09/entertainment/who-was-real-fifth-beatle/index.html; Peter Hodgson interview, January 27, 2018.
16. Scott interview, June 2, 2017.
17. Martin, With a Little Help, 46; Leigh, Love Me Do, chap. 5.
18. Martin, Playback, 189.
19. Martin, With a Little Help, xii.
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