He was 90 yrs old ? fantastic.

Never knew he wrote that score. "Eleanor Rigby" is a very good song.

I believe, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the chorus "Ah, look at all the lonely people" came from George Harrison.

That's all a matter of opinion. I'll take Revolver too, if only for "Love you to" , my favorite Beatles song😊

​@@jmarty1000i thought he was singing "I .....look at all the lonely people" 😊

Agreed. Billy Preston is often called the 5th beatle but Martin played on more songs that Preston, orchestrated for many other songs, and is in fact a musical member of the group. Preston was the finest guest artist but it's hard to say whether his style wold have continued to work with the band as they matured.

...the videos are dwindling , sadly - due to repeated copyright blockings ! I used to have nearly 200 Beatles related videos on here ....but was threatened with having all my Google services removed , including gmail , just because there were a few seconds of Beatles music here and there ! The most recent blockage and video removal was from a 1982 documentary about the fan's convention get togethers in LA and Liverpool ...yet the warning said it contained the cd remasters of Beatles songs...er...in 1982?!

The greatest rock producer of all times, the inventor of "Baroque and Roll", a fine film scorer in his own right, and a truly humble man who understood the Beatles in the context of great art. Urging Paul to go in a Western European Classical direction was not all that hard given Paul's natural taste for common practice tonality, counterpoint etc...it's all there, even quite early in his songs. (take All My Loving for example.... the bass line is pure Handel.) Getting John to go in that direction in masterpieces such as Strawberry Fields, I Am The Walrus, and Because, was much more difficult and therefore much more rewarding. One of G Martin's great accomplishments is knowing how much, or really how little, orchestration to use in a Beatles song. Take the near straight tone timbre of the string quartet in Yesterday. Paul was worried that the song would sound like Muzak, but Martin used a true baroque timbre and execution in calling for the strings to play in that manner. The lack of vibrato in the strings shaped the way strings are scored for years to come, even in modern classical scores. Some of the cello riffs in Srawberry Fileds are the hardest rocking, tastiest riffs in pop history. I Am The Walrus is half George Martin. It's a fantastic song to begin with, but the 20th century touches, calling on a rough expressonistic musical aesthetic, make that which is psychadelic in the song much more muscular and threatening. Mr Kite is an absolute masterpiece of production. It's a charming little song, but really on the level of When I'm 64 in terms of nostalgia and evocation of British Music Hall style, Lennon does Gilbert and Sullivan in essence. It is George Martin who makes the song modern, timeless, and psychadelic, not Lennon. Another fine moment for Martin is the colossal orchestration and production effort behind Paul's great post Beatle Bond effort, Live and Let Die, which is clearly the best theme song written for a Bond film, surpassing even Goldfinger. There is a sad gap in greatness between the death of Purcell and the phenomenon that is the Beatles in respect to British "Classical" music. (A better term would be art music) Martin understood well that the Beatles were, despite the struggle, a group of four that operate as one in purely artistic terms. His genius in recognizing that fact, enhancing the artistic output, and yet allowing each part of the sum to be who he was in the context of music and art can never be overlooked. If the Beatles are the greatest music produced by Britain since Purcell, and IMO it is, clearly Martin is the 5th element responsible for that amazing achievement.

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He wrote a few lines in songs as well. He really was the 5th Beatle.

Even 'I'm only sleeping ' ? 😂

But George Martin didn't say exactly he prefers Revolver...He Only said Sgt Peppers is not his favourite...Then he mentioned Rubber Soul, Revolver and...Abbey Road as well. It means that is not possible to have a Beatles favourite. Because they are all wonderful. I just don't have a favourite. I love them all.

@@dabreu I do have four favorites and they are Rubber Soul Revolver Pepper and Abbey Road. The White Album is a great low tech effort, and has many of their greatest songs, but some junk as well (and I don't mean #9.... that is actually a pretty strong track) Every Beatles album has many worhtwhile songs, even Beatles For Sale and With The Beatles.

Agreed. I have a 9-disc bootleg set of The Beatles' BBC performances, which I played endlessly before the legit copy. The sonic quality of the commercial release was a great improvement, and I still play it.

Ah, I have a deep love for George Martin, and I really think he is the fifth real member of the Beatles. His contribution is too important not to consider it as such.

....'' did you notice that two of them are wearing their MBE Medals on the Sgt. Pepper uniforms.....'' .

@@stevenrutter4910Thank you, mister. It was the "MBE" part I wasnt understanding

The recording career is only one side of things, with the others that had his input are 1962-1966, 1967-1970, Love Songs, The Beatles at the Movies, Rock and Roll, (and more) plus the 'new' album (for the public anyway) The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl; derived from three concert recordings. Which has left these three individual concerts unreleased.We are still waiting for Shea Stadium (1965) and the three Budokan Hall concerts (1966) to come to the market. All of which were recorded by EMI.

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Abbey Road really had George Harrison come into his own. Plus, as a final statement to their career, it's very well summed up by "And In the End, the Love you take, is equal to the Love you Make". I believe Revolver has gained on Sgt. Pepper's recently too. But the tour de force of Sgt. Pepper's will always be the Beatles crowning achievement, and that is "A Day in the Life".

MY lord! You have to be about the most misinformed individual on this subject possible. I planned a long rebuttal to our screed, but no, not worth it. Let's just say one or two things out of multitudes of points that could be made: Not that popular? At certain points the Beatles had the top 7 songs in the world. Meaning they had 7 number ones simultaneously. Also, their music was an important factor in bringing down the Berlin Wall. I guess I can't fault you Reklaw. You just seem to be eye bleedingly ignorant.

Brent Waterbury actually couldn’t you say all The Beatles music is both over and underrated?

@@davidkornblatt991 Absolutely. But "the boys" tried everything. Some of it hit big while others --say the Let It B lp--disappointed.

Put Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields in there, as intended, different story.

@@davidkornblatt991 No.

Brent Waterbury What im saying is while Sgt Pepper..., it is overrated compared to the single Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane which is amazing(2 bad it wasn’t on the album). That single also props up Magical Mystery Tour LP. The Beatles innovation is that they for an instant, destroyed Pop Music and pushed it into Rock music. That being said Revolver is super great when viewed against Sgt Pepper.