Hearing such glorious sounds I found it difficult to connect them with ninety men and women blowing into brass and wooden instruments or scraping away at strings with horsehair bows. I was just in my teens when Sir Adrian Boult brought the BBC Symphony Orchestra to my school for a public concert. I remember well the very first time I heard a symphony orchestra. George's family left London, with him being enrolled at Bromley Grammar School.

Ignatius College students were evacuated to Welwyn Garden City. At eight years of age, he persuaded his parents, Henry and Betha Beatrice (née Simpson) Martin, that he should take piano lessons, but those ended after only eight lessons because of a disagreement between his mother and the teacher.Īs a child, he attended several schools, including a 'convent school in Holloway', St Joseph's School ( Highgate), and at St Ignatius' College ( Stamford Hill), where he had won a scholarship.

When he was six, his family acquired a piano that sparked his interest in music. Martin was born on 3 January 1926 in Highbury, London.

10 Selected non-Beatles hit records produced or co-produced by George Martin.

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In recognition of his services to the music industry and popular culture, he was made a Knight Bachelor in 1996. He also held a number of senior executive roles at media companies and contributed to a wide range of charitable causes, including his work for The Prince's Trust and the Caribbean island of Montserrat. In his career he produced 30 number-one hit singles in the United Kingdom and 23 number-one hits in the United States. Before working with the Beatles and other pop musicians, he produced comedy and novelty records in the 1950s and early 1960s, working with Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Bernard Cribbins, among others. Martin's career spanned more than six decades in music, film, television and live performance. AllMusic has described him as the 'world's most famous record producer'. He was referred to as the ' Fifth Beatle' in reference to his extensive involvement in each of the Beatles' original albums. Sir George Henry Martin CBE (3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016) was an English record producer.

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