Good point, especially given that John in 1970 (i.e. pre Imagine) hadn't yet proven he could be as musically successful without George Martin, and the public awareness of GM was enormous. (I won't say more than of any other contemporary record producer, because there's always Phil Spector, who was seen as THE GENIUS more than any of his individual artists.) BTW, as on other occasions, John's paranoia re: people thinking it was all George Martin wasn't without any foundation; I remember Hanif Kureishi writing how he remembers being a Beatles fan in (a London) school and incredibly excited when Sgt. Pepper was released, and how angry he was when his teacher told him there was no way two uneducated proles could have composed this, it must have been George Martin. However, snobby teachers aside, I don't think any press or radio or tv clailmed that; by 1970 certainly thinking that John was a songwriting genius was pretty much universal.
Sidenote: George Martin’s music, please, just play me some. Well, in 1970 there was always that Family Way soundtrack he'd written with some input from, what was his name, ahem. Mind you, Uncle George himself never claimed top position. In the 1979 All you need is ears (i.e. something written and published before John's death), he wrote: "I must emphasise that it was a team effort. Without my arrangements and scoring, very many of the records would not have sounded as they do. Whether they would have been any better, I cannot say. They might have been. That is not modesty on my part; it is an attempt to give a factual picture of the relationship. But equally, there is no doubt in my mind that the main talent of that whole era came from Paul and John. George, Ringo and myself were subsidiary talents. We were not five equal people artistically: two were very strong, and the other three were also-rans. In varying degrees those three could have been other people."
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Re: Management Issues I
Date: 2016-12-11 05:19 pm (UTC)Sidenote: George Martin’s music, please, just play me some. Well, in 1970 there was always that Family Way soundtrack he'd written with some input from, what was his name, ahem. Mind you, Uncle George himself never claimed top position. In the 1979 All you need is ears (i.e. something written and published before John's death), he wrote: "I must emphasise that it was a team effort. Without my arrangements and scoring, very many of the records would not have sounded as they do. Whether they would have been any better, I cannot say. They might have been. That is not modesty on my part; it is an attempt to give a factual picture of the relationship. But equally, there is no doubt in my mind that the main talent of that whole era came from Paul and John. George, Ringo and myself were subsidiary talents. We were not five equal people artistically: two were very strong, and the other three were also-rans. In varying degrees those three could have been other people."