Here, There and Everywhere

Zusatztext Unlike other books detailing the group?s recording history! Emerick?s provides the kind of day-to-day experience of what it was like working with the world?s most famous rock group. ( The Washington Post ) There have been hundreds of books about the Beatles! but only a handful from insiders. And for seven years! Emerick was a witness to history who worked alongside the Fab Four and producer George Martin. ( The Plain Dealer ! Cleveland) Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext From the Beatles' recording engineer Geoff Emerick comes a fascinating memoirfeaturing never-before-told stories of the Fab Four. 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 Loveand 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 ...

Unlike other books detailing the group’s recording history, Emerick’s provides the kind of day-to-day experience of what it was like working with the world’s most famous rock group. (The Washington Post)

There have been hundreds of books about the Beatles, but only a handful from insiders. And for seven years, Emerick was a witness to history who worked alongside the Fab Four and producer George Martin. (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)

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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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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.

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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…