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Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles Review

I’ve read a lot of books about the Beatles through the years, The Beatles by Bob Spitz, Ticket to Ride by Larry Kane, Miss O’Dell, by Chris O’Dell (most disappointing book ever), Wonderful Tonight by Pattie Boyd, Many Years from Now by Barry Miles and John by Cynthia Lennon, to name a few. Never have I read a book that told what the Beatles are really are all about …the MUSIC! How the songs came together, the ideas came about, who wrote, who played, who sang what, how the sounds were devised, etc.

And on top of all that how they, John, Paul, George and Ringo interacted with each other and the studio people during the making of these sounds from the eyes of someone not so close personally to any of them, at least in the beginning. While Geoff becomes friendly through the years with Paul, he never sugar coats their strengths or short comings nor does he bash anyone of them personally, he just tells it like, in his eyes & mind he saw it. He’s obviously a people watcher who forms opinions as to why a person acts, reacts or interacts in a particular way and I liked hearing that side of the Beatle story. He did not socialize outside the studio with them so it’s strickly from a working stand point and I found it fascinating!

As a bonus I learned so much about how a record is made, not a simple task of getting a group together in a recording studio, everyone singing the song together a couple of times & picking the recording that sounds the best… oh no, much, much, MUCH more is involved! Now I listen to the songs again & again trying to pick up the special effects and sounds he mentions in the book. I only wished he had more songs to tell us about! It was like being a fly on the wall! I LOVED this one!

Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles Feature

• ISBN13: 9781592402694
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles Overview

Geoff Emerick became an assistant engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1962 at age fifteen, and was present as a new band called the Beatles recorded their first songs. He later worked with the Beatles as they recorded their singles “She Loves You” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” the songs that would propel them to international superstardom. In 1964 he would witness the transformation of this young and playful group from Liverpool into professional, polished musicians as they put to tape classic songs such as “Eight Days A Week” and “I Feel Fine.”

Then, in 1966, at age nineteen, Geoff Emerick became the Beatles’ chief engineer, the man responsible for their distinctive sound as they recorded the classic album Revolver, in which they pioneered innovative recording techniques that changed the course of rock history. Emerick would also engineer the monumental Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road albums, considered by many the greatest rock recordings of all time. In Here, There and Everywhere he reveals the creative process of the band in the studio, and describes how he achieved the sounds on their most famous songs. Emerick also brings to light the personal dynamics of the band, from the relentless (and increasingly mean-spirited) competition between Lennon and McCartney to the infighting and frustration that eventually brought a bitter end to the greatest rock band the world has ever known.

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