{"id":5900,"date":"2016-03-09T12:09:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T12:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/03\/09\/former-beatles-producer-george-martin-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2016-03-09T12:09:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T12:09:48","slug":"former-beatles-producer-george-martin-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/03\/09\/former-beatles-producer-george-martin-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Beatles producer, George Martin, passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/ee\/George_Martin_-_backstage_at_LOVE.jpg\/220px-George_Martin_-_backstage_at_LOVE.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"273\" \/><br \/>George Martin, the \u201cFifth Beatle\u201d and  British treasure who signed the Fab Four to a label contract when no  one else would, produced virtually all their songs and introduced lavish  arrangements into \u201cYesterday\u201d and \u201cA Day in the Life,\u201d has died. He was  90. Beatles drummer Ringo Starr  shared the news on Twitter, writing &#8220;Peace and love&#8230; George will be  missed.&#8221; A\u00a0Universal Music Group spokesperson confirmed Martin&#8217;s death,  though details are not yet clear.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The producer, executive, arranger, musician and British knight was  behind a whopping 23 No. 1 singles in the U.S. and 30 in the U.K. As  head of EMI\u2019s Parlophone Records, which in its early years,  concentrated on jazz and comedy, Martin was on the lookout for a rock  act when he met Beatles manager Brian Epstein in February 1962. Every  other British label had passed on signing the foursome &#8212;\u00a0John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best.<\/p>\n<p>Martin  called their demo made for Decca Records a month earlier \u201crather  unpromising,\u201d but there was something about those Lennon-McCartney  harmonies, so he scheduled The Beatles for a recording session at EMI\u2019s  Abbey Road studios in June. He liked what he heard and signed them up.  (The Hollies would later join Parlophone as well.)<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<br \/>Image credit: Creative Commin License<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Martin, the \u201cFifth Beatle\u201d and British treasure who signed the Fab Four to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}