here there and everywhere by geoff emerick

“Oh, Norman is out….Geoff will be carrying on in his place,” replies Martin casually. “Where’s Norman?” intones Lennon ominously as the session begins. Of course, this is no ordinary day – it’s the start of the Revolver sessions and The Beatles are recording “Tomorrow Never Knows”. The book, serviceably penned by Emerick and American music journalist Howard Massey, shrewdly begins with Emerick (19 years old but already with three years EMI experience) nervously taking the place of Beatles sound engineer Norman Smith and staking out his turf first day on the job. The fact that this self-effacing man’s story has been so seldom told makes Here, There and Everywhere a must read for any serious fan of The Beatles music. Golden Ears” by his EMI colleagues (though reading the book one can suspect the nickname was served up with generous helpings of English taking the you-know-what).Įven today Emerick’s contributions aren’t always common knowledge. Pepper’s Lonely Heats Club Band and Abbey Road all benefited from the sonic innovations of the young man known as “Mr. A fixture behind the recording console for a large part of The Beatles’s career, Emerick did much to shape the ground-breaking sounds of The Beatles’s post-touring studio years (1966-1970). Indeed, the “cat” in question, recording engineer Geoff Emerick, was that and much more. Lauding the book as a dream come true for Fab music scholars, he reminds readers that its author (in the recording studio at least) was that rarest of things” a true Beatles insider. Among the various source quotes on the back cover of Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles is one by David Letterman sidekick and bandleader Paul Shaffer.

Here there and everywhere by geoff emerick