Re: Beatles dirt

<<Tell you what, Boomy, look at what George Martin was producing before
he
hooked up with the Beatles. Then, you tell me that he would have
gotten
work with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Kenny Rogers (!) and all the others

if he hadn't had the enormous good fortune to have been assigned to the

Beatles -- against his wishes, as a matter of fact.>>

He wasn't assigned to the Beatles. He agreed to audition them. Martin
was head of Parlophone Records at the time and it was soley his choice
to sign them to a contract, something six other major labels had
already pass on.

Prior to the Beatles, he worked with Stan Getz, Judy Garland, Dudley
Moore and the Goons (featuring Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan). He
even had a number one single in the UK two years before working with
the Beatles: "You're Driving Me Crazy" by the Temperance Seven. Not a
bad resume.

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