I can't imagine my youth without those four young men.

Oh, I see. Never mind.

there apparently are people out there who thought that it was George R.R. Martin who had died.

He said he could always play the oboe in the pit orchestra at Covent Garden Opera since he knew the oboe part to Don Giovanni, in case the EMI gig didn't work out. This was in "All You Need Is Ears".

He worked with a lot of classical people at Abbey Road and Scottish musicians and produced many singles and albums on beyond the Beatles. Dudley Moore, Peter Sellers, Jonathan Miller, Beyond the Fringe, and the Goonies.

Said he first heard the BBC Symphony perform at his school with Sir Adrian Boult conducting and was amazed at the sound they produced. This sounds like my reaction at seeing the Houston Symphony perform with Sir John Barbirolli conducting "Dollar Concerts" as they were called in the old Sam Houston Coliseum. I was amazed. I thought "Oh, so that sound REALLY does come out of a group of people!" I'd listened to classical records but not seen it in person.

The engineers sought to make the electronic recording process transparent, to make it as close as they could to "his masters voice."



People enjoy the sound of music on vinyl because Martin and others like him produced music that incorporated the limitations of the turntable and needle, or the squiggle of a movie optical soundtrack, especially the agressive RIAA compression, into the final sound of the music. These quirks of the analog electronic instrument became a part of the performance.

They knew what the music would sound like after it was picked up by the needle or photocell and amplified by tubes.

Digital recording can reproduce this unique sound (and more) but it's frequently done in an artless manner.

Simple "Record Producer who discovered the Beatles" doesn't do Martin justice.