2012: Paul, Ringo, and George Martin Highlights - YouTube

Fun stuff from YT to watch while you can: 

2012 Paul, Ringo, and George Martin Highlights - YouTube

Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Martin talking of the old times. 

Real fun. 

2020-08: O estúdio de George Martin...

... nas Caraíbas? Abandonado:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/air-studio-ruins

Quoting:

"George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano. "

1982-06: Take it Away...

... com Ringo Starr, George Martin e Steve Gadd:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBrZx4MAOvt/?igshid=mtowtqsff087

2018-09: Quão difícil foi terminar o White Album?

Bastante, aparentemente, pelo relato do livro de George Martin (parte 2):
https://www.salon.com/2018/09/09/the-beatles-struggle-to-finish-the-white-album-how-bad-did-it-get/

Citando:
"And that’s when George chimed in, offering advice to the Beatle about rephrasing his vocals. “Paul, can you try rephrasing the last line of each verse?” George asked. To Geoff’s ears, the Beatles’ producer was adopting the same “gentle, slightly aristocratic voice” that he had always deployed in his dealings with the Beatles. Geoff couldn’t help admiring the older man, later lauding him for “still trying to do his job, still trying to steer his charges toward increased musical sophistication and help push them to their best performances.” But Emerick wasn’t prepared for McCartney’s curt response: “If you think you can do it better, why don’t you fucking come down here and sing it yourself?” The engineer sat there in the booth, dumbstruck by Paul’s tone. “What happened next shocked me to the core,” Emerick later wrote. “In sheer frustration, quiet, low-key George Martin actually began shouting back at Paul. ‘Then bloody sing it again!’ he yelled over the talkback, causing me to wince. ‘I give up. I just don’t know any better how to help you.’ It was the first time I had ever heard George Martin raise his voice in a session. The silence following the outburst was equally deafening.”"

2018-08: Livro de Womack fala de amuo de George Martin

... durante as gravações do White AlbumGeorge Martin Was ‘Frozen Out’ of Beatles’ White Album Sessions 

Citando:
"Womack said he’d spoken to sound engineers and tape operators for his book Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, the Later Years, 1966–2016. “I asked them what George was doing when John [Lennon] was playing a particular guitar part or when Ringo [Starr] was working on some drum part,” Womack told the Guardian. “They would say, ‘Nothing, he was in the back of the booth, reading newspapers, sharing his chocolate with us.’ He was on a kind of a chocolate-and-newspaper strike.”

The author said that, along with the Epstein tragedy, the falling-out “also had a lot to do with a Time magazine article in 1967 where George was credited with being this wunderkind and the mastermind behind Sgt Pepper. “They didn’t take very well to that and let him know,” Womack added. “I do think this was the beginning of this struggle over ‘Who’s the genius behind the Beatles?’ This was payback for taking credit for the Beatles myth. … But they coaxed him back for Abbey Road [in 1969].”
"

2018-08: Livro sobre a vida de George Martin

1966 até se ter reformado (segunda parte da história já contada noutro livro desde 1926). A rejeição de trabalhar com a EMI, os estúdios que teve (AIR studios, o de Montserrat, etc.) e a forma como diplomaticamente se soube sempre mover e manter mesmo com quando os Beatles poderiam ter trabalhado com outros:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markbeech/2018/08/10/beatles-producer-george-martins-lessons-on-music-business-survival-money-making/

2018-03-13: Viúva de George Martin assaltada

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5507031/Widow-fifth-Beatle-calls-police-burgled.html

Citando:
"The widow of ‘fifth Beatle’ Sir George Martin locked herself in the bathroom in terror as masked burglars forced their way into her home.

Judy Martin, 89, dialled 999 after discovering two intruders at her house in an Oxfordshire village. Uniformed officers arrived with sirens blaring within minutes, forcing the pair to flee empty-handed.

Despite support from a police helicopter with a thermal imaging camera, the suspects escaped and remain on the run. 

One line of inquiry is that the intruders thought priceless Beatles memorabilia was in the house."

2017-10-11: Alan Parsons fala de George Martin e do Let it Be

http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/862547/alan-parsons-project-eye-in-the-sky-the-beatles-pink-floyd

Citando:
"He is the go-to producer for established artists who crave his authentic, warm and detailed sound on their recordings.

This is no surprise given that he learned his trade under the tutelage of the late, great Sir George Martin.

He is famous for his deft influence on the sound of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon and The Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be albums. 

Parsons and his songwriting partner Eric Woolfson achieved major success in the own right with The Alan Parsons Project, selling more than 60 million albums.

And with the 35th-anniversary release of The Alan Parsons Project seminal album Eye In The Sky, Parsons grants Express.co.uk a rare and exclusive interview."

2017-03-14: Finalmente percebi porque soa tão bem...

... o remaster para o documentário Eight Days a Week e o CD correspondente (que é baseado em dois concertos numa sala americana de nome Hollywood Bowl). Recordo-me claramente de como soava o vinil de 1977 que uma prima minha tinha e ao voltar a ouvir o remaster cheguei a pensar que o GH era um picuinhas ao dizer (na Anthology) que não se conseguia ouvir a tocar e que toda aquela histeria e gritaria eram insuportáveis. Mas não. A questão é que os concertos são os mesmos mas o som foi todo "reconstruído" (para remover o barulho do público). 

Para saber como leiam o artigo seguinte todo, vale definitivamente a pena:
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/remastering-one-beatles-live-album-finally-made-great/

Citando:
"THE BEATLES’ REMARKABLE catalog includes just one official live album, and the group’s immense popularity made it unlistenable. The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl, recorded in 1964 and 1965 but not released until 1977, was always a frustrating listen. Try as you might, you simply cannot hear much music above the fan-belt squeal of 10,000 Beatlemaniacs.

You can’t blame the Fab Four, nor their legendary producer George Martin. Martin did what he could with the three-track tapes, but the limitations of 1970s technology did little to elevate the music above the din. Boosting the high frequencies—the snap of Ringo Starr’s hi-hat, the shimmer and chime of George Harrison’s guitar—only made the racket made by all those fans even louder.

All of which makes the remastered version of Live at the Hollywood Bowl especially impressive. The do-over, which coincided with the August release of Ron Howard’s documentary film Eight Days a Week, squeezes astonishing clarity out of the source tapes. You can finally hear an exceptionally tight band grinding out infectious blues-based rock propelled by a driving beat, wailing guitars, and raspy vocals. This album never sounded so lucid, present, or weighty."

2016-03-23: Rare Beatles demo disc raises $110,180 at auction sale

Disco dos Beatles usado por Brian Epstein para demonstrar os Beatles a George Martin (que os contratou para a Parlophone - EMI) foi vendido por 110180 USD (~98 476 EUR):

Rare Beatles demo disc raises $110,180 at auction sale

Este leilão tinha sido anunciado recentemente por estas bandas.

2016-03-14: Artigo da Electronic Musician sobre GM

... Com link para entrevista de 2009 e um sítio da BBC com mais memórias:
http://www.emusician.com/artists/1333/rip-sir-george-martin-the-fifth-beatle-1926-2016/57056

2016-03-09: GM News

More GM news with important insights on Sir GM:

• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3483404/George-Martin-producer-Beatles-dies-aged-90.html
• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/sir-george-martin-sir-paul-mccartney-leads-tributes-to-beatles-producer-and-second-father-a6920926.html

I heard the news when waking up at the national radio (Antena 1). And for sure the press today will allow me to record a few more hits (look at the tags).

Updated: @2016-03-10

• http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/remembering-the-man-behind-the-beatles/article8336550.ece
• http://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/Beatles-producer-George-Martin-dies-at-90-6878868.php
• http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/10/george-rr-martin-denies-being-dead-game-of-thrones (this last one is the comic Dept.); Hitcount non PT = Hitcount non PT + 3.
• The evening news at the portuguese channel SIC-N passed a full piece on George Martin, as well as in te lower part of the screen (iteratively) i.e. HitCount++)++

2016-03-08: Sir George Martin, Beatles producer, dead at 90 - CNN.com

A piece of the Beatles, one of the 5th Beatle, died yesterday, as announced via Twitter by Ringo Starr (curiously it was not done by Giles). Sad day. Today I'm using the T-Shirt (below the suit):

Sir George Martin, Beatles producer, dead at 90 - CNN.com

The Ringo Starr tweet:

2015-10-24: Beatles referidos no A Contar (Antena 1)

Referência a Beatles no "A Contar" (Antena 1) acerca da sorte que alguns artistas tiveram em se cruzar com pessoas que os apoiaram quer em termos de gestão de carreira, quer em termos musicais. Já se adivinha que no caso dos Beatles falaram de Brian Epstein (cuja morte prematura em 1968 acelerou a sua separação e George Martin (que compôs quase a integral dos acompanhamentos de orquestra, sempre geniais e que chegou a tocar por diversas vezes piano nas gravações). no caso de Amália. Falou-se de Alain Oullman que, apesar da genialidade e intimidade a tratava por você.
Este programa de fim de semana na Antena 1 repetiu o programa diário que já tinha passado à semana (mais curto).