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Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles |  | Authors: Geoff Emerick, Howard Massey
Publisher: Gotham
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.5 x 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 780
ASIN: B0018DUPTE
Publication Date: February 15, 2007
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Geoff Emerick became an assistant engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1962 at age fifteen, and was present as a new band called the Beatles recorded their first songs. He later worked with the Beatles as they recorded their singles She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand, the songs that would propel them to international superstardom. In 1964 he would witness the transformation of this young and playful group from Liverpool into professional, polished musicians as they put to tape classic songs such as Eight Days A Week and I Feel Fine. Then, in 1966, at age nineteen, Geoff Emerick became the Beatles chief engineer, the man responsible for their distinctive sound as they recorded the classic album Revolver, in which they pioneered innovative recording techniques that changed the course of rock history. Emerick would also engineer the monumental Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road albums, considered by many the greatest rock recordings of all time. In Here, There and Everywhere he reveals the creative process of the band in the studio, and describes how he achieved the sounds on their most famous songs. Emerick also brings to light the personal dynamics of the band, from the relentless (and increasingly mean-spirited) competition between Lennon and McCartney to the infighting and frustration that eventually brought a bitter end to the greatest rock band the world has ever known.
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 Here There & Everywhere February 25, 2010
D. J. Taggart
Excellent insight into the Beatles during some of their most important recordings. Shatters many assumptions regarding who played what instruments on what songs. I have sent a copy of the book to a friend and referred it to many others. If you are a Beatle lover as I am, you will enjoy Here There & Everywhere.
 Sgt. Emerick's Lonely Hearts Club Band February 20, 2010
Zeus Henderson
This offers a great view of the fab four from someone who spent hundreds of hours in the studio with them. Most of these stories are already well known to Beatle fans, but it's interesting to get them from a different perspective. There is a tangible sense of excitement as Emerick details the groundbreaking recording sessions for Revolver and Sgt. Pepper. Likewise, his accounts of the directionless post-India period and tense White album sessions are particularly fascinating.
Even though Emerick is one of the most renowned engineers on the planet, there is an overwhelming sense that he believes he hasn't gotten the proper credit he deserves for his contributions to the Beatles recordings. This is an issue throughout the book and becomes grating after awhile. The most irritating aspect of the book is his relentless bashing of George Harrison. Most readers probably agree that McCartney was a better songwriter, singer, and musician than George Harrison, but to belabor the point to this extreme is incredibly annoying and detracts from an otherwise enjoyable read.
Overall this is a fascinating book, and with copies selling for $4, you can't go wrong.
Pookie says buy it.
 Emerick did it all...apparently. February 13, 2010
Biff Malibu
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well, that's the impression you'll get after reading "Here, There and Everywhere." Along with that, you'll discover that George Harrison was a "ham-fisted" guitar player, while McCartney was a veritable musical prodigy who could play everything from the bass guitar to God knows what.
You'll also discover things that are presented as facts but are completely incorrect. For example, Geoff tells us that the initial mix of "Penny Lane" omitted the piccolo trumpet flourish at the end, but was soon corrected and found its way onto the standard issue. This is backwards - the trumpet at the end was left off the commercial releases and is only found on DJ copies of the song.
Also, in George Martin's book "All You Need is Ears," Martin explains how HE arrived at the solution of joining the two different takes of "Strawberry Fields Forever" and having them match perfectly by slowing down one and speeding up the other. Geoff takes credit for this in the book. Maybe George got it wrong. Who knows. I found myself encountering items like this throughout the book.
On the plus side, there are some interesting anecdotes that will please even the most die hard Beatle fan, but you begin to wonder how accurate they are.
This book leaves you with the idea that Emerick's hat size grew exponentially throughout his career at EMI, and wondering why his photo wasn't included in all of the Beatle's albums.
here there and everywhere by Geoff Emerick February 11, 2010
Judith Fobes (manchester new hampshire usa)
Not for the casual fan, this book delves into how the records were made, layer by layer. You also get a flavor of the moods of the Beatles during this time as well as insight into the creative process. I marked up several pages and passages because they made me want to go back and listen to the vinyl recordings to see if I could pick up on some of the subtleties he talked about.
After reading this book I think you might agree the Beatles were the most creative, prolific band of all time... it really hits you in the face when you consider the limitations of the technology, the sheer number of songs...the melodies. Emerick was one lucky guy for sure... Beatles 4 ever!
Really Two Brilliant Books in One: The Musical and Psychological Complexities of the Beatles January 31, 2010
DrMark
Emerick's perspective from the studio control booth is amazing. His competence as a musical engineer allows him to describe both the creative thinking and the technical challenges behind the Beatle's songs that wonderfully expands the reader's/listener's appreciation of their music. This book invites the reader to undertake a close listening and a thrilling, almost academic, study of various Beatle tracks and albums to clarify subtleties in their music that were not at all obvious before. This book is a tour de force for that reason alone but amazingly standing side-by-side to the musical discourse is Emerick's perspicuous insight into the Beatles individual personalities and the collective personality of the band. The impact of the four members on each other and those around them and vice-versa is brilliantly fleshed out, which made the complex normal and not-so-normal tensions that finally did the band in all the more sadly inevitable. Knowing full well the outcome, I still found myself rooting for a strong-willed individual somewhere in the Post-Sgt. Pepper madness to grab the band collectively by the collar and demand that they behave. Unfortunately no one asserted this authority and so we'll never know how much great music was lost because of the band's disintegration. Emerick captures the tragedy of the Beatles demise with stunning and gripping psychological depth, which makes this an absolutely brilliant book told in an pleasantly informal, unpretentious manner.
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