George Martin - Plays The Beatles

English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician (3 January 1926, Highbury, London, England, UK  8 March 2016, Wiltshire, England, UK). For the American songwriter who wrote a handful of songs recorded by Earl Klugh, Gene Dunlap, and The Four Tops, please use . George Martin took to music at an early age, becoming interested in the piano before the age of eight. He was later interested in architecture, design, and aeronautics, and ended up becoming a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm (the aviation branch of the Royal Navy) towards the end of World War II. He returned to music, attending , studying composition, conducting, orchestration, and theory, and taking up the oboe as a second principal instrument. He got into the music industry as assistant to , the head of the label, at a period when the label was in transition from second-rate classical recordings to "pop" music. At the same time, the world of music recording was transitioning from 78s to LPs and 45s, with magnetic tape making changes in the recording process. When Preuss retired in 1955, Martin took over Parlophone, and at 29 was the youngest label chief in the company's history. As a producer, George Martin's first number one hit in the U.K. was 's "You're Driving Me Crazy" in 1961. Martin moved Parlophone into the world of rock & roll with , whose second single, "Don't You Rock Me, Daddy-O

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