(London) Beatles producer George Martin says he signed the legendary rock band in its early days, more for the endearing personalities of its four members than for their music, in a video posted by his son on Twitter.
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Died in March 2016 and nicknamed “the fifth Beatle”, George Martin had propelled the “Fab Four” to global success.
“There were four of them and I said ‘Who are they? What are they ?” “, tells the producer to his granddaughter in this video published by his son Giles Martin, also a producer.
He met the Liverpool four in London. “When I listened to what they were doing, it was OK, but not extraordinary,” he recalls in this exchange.
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“But the magic worked when I started to know them, because they were very good people,” continues George Martin.
“They were funny and very intelligent, they all said charming things, they were the kind of people you like to be with,” he explains. “So I thought if I felt that, other people were going to feel that too” and that “that’s why they should become quite popular.”
Son of a carpenter, born in January 1926 in North London, George Martin made the Beatles take off and kept a decisive influence on their entire career, from the original album Please Please Me up to Abbey Road via the psychedelic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Only the band’s last album let it be (1970) was produced by another, Phil Spector.