Editing Geoff Emerick (section)

{{Short description|English recording engineer (1945–2018)}}
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'''Geoffrey Ernest Emerick''' (5 December 1945 – 2 October 2018) was an English [[sound engineer]] and [[record producer]] who worked with [[the Beatles]] on their albums ''[[Revolver (The Beatles album)|Revolver]]'' (1966), ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' (1967) and ''[[Abbey Road]]'' (1969).<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Droney |first=Maureen |title=Geoff Emerick |magazine=[[Mix (magazine)|Mix Magazine]] |date=1 October 2002 |url=http://mixonline.com/recording/interviews/audio_geoff_emerick/ |access-date=4 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118083554/http://mixonline.com/recording/interviews/audio_geoff_emerick/ |archive-date=18 January 2013 }}</ref> Beatles producer [[George Martin]] credited him with bringing "a new kind of mind to the recordings, always suggesting sonic ideas, different kinds of [[reverb]], what we could do with the voices".<ref name="RS2018">{{cite magazine |last1=Sheffield |first1=Rob |title=How Geoff Emerick Helped The Beatles Reinvent Music |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/geoff-emerick-beatles-appreciation-732394/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=3 October 2018 |date=3 October 2018}}</ref>

Emerick also engineered [[the Zombies]]' ''[[Odessey and Oracle]]'' (1968), [[Paul McCartney and Wings]]' ''[[Band on the Run]]'' (1973) and produced [[Elvis Costello]]'s ''[[Imperial Bedroom]]'' (1982), among many others.<ref name="RS2018"/> He won four [[Grammy Award]]s for his work in the music recording field. His 2006 memoir ''Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles'' caused controversy for its factual errors. In 2018, Emerick died from a heart attack at the age of 72 in Los Angeles, California.