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For many years I have been a fan and a student of the Beatles and all who sailed their ship. But, there was one person on the team I knew little about – Norman Smith, the musician, engineer, producer, recording artist and the 6th Beatle! Norman recorded the Beatles from the very beginning through the […]

Here is a decent article about Sir George Martin and AIR Studios history, printed during George’s In My Life tour. From the April 11, 1998 edition of Billboard magazine.

Here is a list of all of my news articles from 2016: January • Happy 90th Birthday Sir George Martin! • Heredity – Rational Youth album – Spotify • Jones soft rock songs from black n white album – Spotify • Jones Assorted Rock Songs – Spotify • Under Milk Wood, 1988, Sir George Martin production at AIR Studios • Etat D’Esprit – John Jacques Jones […]

The great English recording engineer, mixer, producer, studio manager, designer and builder, Bill Price, has passed away after a long illness. Bill was AIR Studio, Oxford Street’s, chief engineer, from their opening in 1970, until he took over at Wessex Studio, in 1976. He began his career at Decca in the mid 1960’s. Bill, recorded, mixed, and or produced, many of my favorite […]

One of the first projects that Dee Long and I were lucky to work on in Studio 5 at AIR Studios, Oxford Street, was Sir George Martin and Anthony Hopkins’ version of the Dylan Thomas play; Under Milk Wood, “Thomas’ tale of a day in the life of the mythical Welsh seaside town of Llareggub” (buggerall […]

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I found a few tracks from Adam Faith, Freddie and the Dreamer’s and Manfred Mann, that John Burgess produced. This was really groundbreaking music in it’s day, and influential around the world. Where would the Doors be without Manfred Mann? What magic did John Burgess and George Martin have? Listen to the songs here on […]

Sometime in early 1987 Dee and I were well and truly not enamored with the Fairlight CMI III. It made us £30,000 pounds more in debt when we moved to AIR Studios, and that was after trading in our Series IIX. And by that time we were mostly using Akai S900’s with our Apple Mac SE […]

It started out as the tape copy room. By 1986 it was a ‘state of the art’ Fairlight/MIDI studio on the fourth floor of the Burton building in Oxford Circus. The pictures are from a Sound Recording Magazine, Japan, July 1987, article about George Martin’s AIR Studios.