Geoffrey E. Emerick (5 December 1945 – 2 October 2018) was an English sound engineer who worked with the Beatles on their albums Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper\'s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) and Abbey Road (1969). Beatles producer George Martin credited him with bringing "a new kind of mind to the recordings, always suggesting sonic ideas, different kinds of reverb, what we could do with the voices".\n', '

Emerick also engineered the Zombies\' Odessey and Oracle (1968), Paul McCartney and Wings\' Band on the Run (1973) and Elvis Costello\'s Imperial Bedroom (1982). He won four Grammy Awards for his work in the music recording field. His 2006 memoir Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles caused controversy for its factual errors. In 2018, Emerick died from a heart attack at the age of 72 in Los Angeles, California.\n', '

Geoff Emerick was brought up in Crouch End in north London, and educated at Crouch End secondary modern school. One of his teachers there heard about a job at EMI and suggested he apply. At age 16, he was employed as an assistant engineer. On 6 June 1962, his second day at work, the Beatles came to EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) to carry out their first recording session for the company. To familiarise Emerick with his work, he was placed under the supervision of another assistant engineer, Richard Langham, assistant to recording engineer Norman Smith, who would be working on the session. As a new recruit, Emerick was not entitled to receive overtime pay, but he was fortunate enough to witness the Beatles recording for the first time with their new drummer, Ringo Starr, on what became the band\'s debut hit single, "Love Me Do".\n', '

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