Sir George Martin Biography

Sir George Martin, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1996 and won both the Grammy Lifetime Achievement and Novello Awards, has had an enormous impact and influence on music and popular culture. Sir George Martin was rated the most successful and influential producer of the twentieth century in a global millennium poll of music critics conducted by USA Today in 1999. Inducted into the Rock Roll Hall of Fame, Sir George Martin is also included in the Guinness Book of World Recordings as the most successful producer ever, with more than fifty #1 hit records across five decades in America and Great Britain alone. He has created recordings that have sold over one billion units globally. His award-winning work in every recording genre and style is unparalleled. It encompasses classical, comedy, jazz, pop, country, RB, rock roll, cinema scores, television soundtracks, and other genres, and has produced the longest run of #1 hit songs in history � more than 36 years. His work as a producer, arranger, and composer impacted, propelled, and established standards for more popular music and comedy acts than anybody else before or after. Among the hundreds of major artists with whom he has collaborated are Paul McCartney, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, Celine Dion, Brian Wilson, Billy Joel, Stan Getz, Ella Fitzgerald, Cleo Laine, John McLaughlin, Sting, Michael Jackson, the Bee Gees, Neil Sedaka, Shirley Bassey, Joni Mitchell, Phil Collins, Kenny Rogers, Dire Straits, America, Earth Wind Fire, Aerosmith, The Sir George Martin served as a mentor and creative partner to the Beatles, the most unique, successful, and influential music phenomenon in popular music history. He is most known as the Beatles producer; he signed the Beatles and produced and arranged practically all of their tracks, even performing on several of the most iconic Lennon/McCartney tunes. Martins' abilities molded the Beatles' recordings and their tremendous legacy, according to The New York Times in 1999. Sir George and the Beatles irrevocably altered music and general society." Sir George Martin, a musically educated arranger and composer, has directed many of the world's major orchestras. Among his many cinema, television, and stage ventures, he wrote, arranged, and/or produced the scores for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Tommy, the Beatles animated movie Yellow Submarine, and two Academy Award nominated films: A Hard Days Night and Live and Let Die. Sir George Martin made his final recording in 1997, after overseeing and providing creative direction to the critically acclaimed Beatles Anthology series and his own final album, In My Life. After nearly four decades, his final song became the best-selling music of all time, selling more than 40 million records worldwide. Elton John's Candle in the Wind Princess Diana Tribute was the song. In addition to numerous highly acclaimed television documentary projects such as The Making of Sergeant Pepper and The Rhythm of Life, Sir George Martin has been touring the United States and Europe to sell-out crowds in a multi-media presentation of The Making of Sergeant Pepper in which he takes audiences on a magical mystery tour, looking behind the scenes at the technical and creative process that resulted in the record he produced and arranged for the Beatles. Many reviewers regard it as the most significant, influential, and technically creative recording in popular music history. Sergeant Pepper, released in 1967, is still the best-selling record in the United Kingdom. In November 2000, Sir George Martin published 1, a collection of 27 #1 Beatles songs. In less than four months, it became the best-selling album of all time, selling more than 30 million copies worldwide. The single also made a world record by simultaneously reaching #1 on the music charts in 27 nations. In 2001, EMI published Produced by George Martin, a six-CD box set of tracks charting popular music throughout the previous fifty years. His various novels include: With A Little Help From My Friends, All You Need is Ears and Making Music. With a creative partnership spanning more than 35 years, maybe no one speaks more authoritatively about Sir George Martin than Paul McCartney. When asked to remark on George and his effect on him in a 1998 interview, he stated, George is the man of the year, the man of the hour, the man of the minute, the guy for me.

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