Geoff Emerick, the Beatles studio engineer who entered the music business in his mid-teens and by his early 20s had helped make history through his work on such landmark albums as Revolver and Sgt. He was on hand during the Beatles' early EMI sessions, in 1962, as an assistant under lead engineer Norman Smith. —@mashupmartinHis first album as Beatles engineer was Revolver, the 1966 release that marked the band's full embrace of such studio effects as backward tape loops and double tracking. "The expletives were really flying," he later told Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn. Emerick is seen receiving a Grammy Award from Beatles drummer Ringo Starr at a London music studio in 1968.

Source: CBC News October 03, 2018 15:33 UTC