Geoff Emerick

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 1966 Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967 and Abbey Road 1969 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 Emerick also engineered the Zombies Odessey and Oracle 1968 Paul McCartney and Wings Band on the Run 1973 and produced Elvis Costellos Imperial Bedroom 1982 among many others He won four Grammy Awards 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