Wednesday, October 15, 2025

A 30 for 30 on The Beatles I'd Pay Money to See

The seismic shift that happened simply because after engineering every Beatles song through Rubber Soul Norman Smith decided to leave because he wanted to produce, which opened the door for a much younger Geoff Emerick (born in 1946, a full 23 years after Smith, who was even older than George Martin) to step in and work on Revolver, which blazed the way from a more acoustic-leaning sound to a technical & creative blizzard of electric revolution mostly enabled by Emerick’s own willingness to push the boundaries of the possible along with the band; how different would Revolver have been if Norman Smith had stayed on to engineer? 

I'd pay money to watch a coupla hours of that breakdown, no problem.

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