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Music Books [Issue
#20] Geoff Emerick With Howard Massey:
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The BeatlesBy
Dean Truitt
Although recording
engineer Geoff Emerick was only a 19-year-old boy when he began working with The
Fab Four in 1966 and his tenure with the group lasted but two years, the young
mans experience ultimately helped shape history by crafting some of musics
finest material of any era.
Having just arrived
to his first day on the job, Emerick filled John Lennons quixotic request
to sound like the Dalai Lama singing from high atop a mountain range for his performance
on Tomorrow Never Knows. By employing uncanny technical ability with
the presence of mind to think far outside the box, the maverick sound sculptor
conceived the idea to record the vocal track through a rotating Leslie speaker
cabinet, his first of countless studio innovations. The stellar memoir offers
one of the finest glimpses into The Beatles lives within their sanctuary,
Abbey Road Studios, from an insider who witnessed the groups working conditions
and personal differences.