{"id":316245,"date":"2010-02-13T13:40:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteinpower.com\/drmike\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2010-02-13T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T18:40:14","slug":"an-evening-with-sir-george-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/316245","title":{"rendered":"An evening with Sir George Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I’m taking a short break from the great Anthony Colpo smackdown to report on all the goings on with the ‘wretched’ choral society and the Beatles concert.\u00a0 As I’ve mentioned before, MD has been pushing for a Beatles concert since she’s been the president (her three-year term will be mercifully over on June 30, and I’ll have my wife back).\u00a0 It’s all come to pass with a whole lot of help from a whole bunch of people. And, thanks to all this effort by all these people – especially Brooks Firestone – it has turned into a much, much huger event than she had ever imagined.<\/p>\n

The event kicked off last night with a small reception with Sir George Martin.\u00a0 About 50 people came to a wine and hors d’oeuvres at the Founders Room of the Granada theater.\u00a0 Sir George gave a wonderful talk about his early career and his first meeting with the Beatles.\u00a0 At that time non-Sir George was heading EMI records and his specialty was comedy records.\u00a0 Brian Epstein had arranged an appointment (Martin said he still has his diary, which lists Epstein as Bernard Epstein) and when Martin told him that he wasn’t interested, Epstein looked so dejected, that Martin relented and said, “Okay, I’ll give them one hour next week.”<\/p>\n

The Beatles came in at the appointed time, were terrible as musicians, but were absolutely charming.\u00a0 Martin took them into the control room to listen to their audition recording and told them to tell him if there was anything they didn’t like.\u00a0 George Harrison promptly said,”For starters, I’m not crazy about your tie.”\u00a0 The other Beatles were mortified because they thought George may have blown the deal for them.\u00a0 George Martin, on the other hand, thought it was hilarious.\u00a0 At the end of the day, he agreed to give them a recording contract.\u00a0 Then, as he said in his talk, “As we all know, the rest is history.”<\/p>\n

He also said that after he had given the Beatles their first contract, he discovered that they had been turned down by every other record producer in England.\u00a0 He had been their last resort.\u00a0 Funny how things work out.<\/p>\n

When MD and I woke up this morning, the article below was in the Santa Barbara paper. I shamelessly ripped the photo of MD and me with Sir George and put it at the top of this post.<\/p>\n

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The Dallas branch of the Eades fam flew in from Dallas for the big event, but the eldest grandchild got sick on the plane.\u00a0 The two others were in fine shape, though, and ended up having their own audience with Sir George in his dressing room.\u00a0 The eldest woke up in great shape this morning, so he’ll be at the big premier performance tonight.<\/p>\n

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Photo at top and in article by Matt Weir<\/p>\n

Photo at bottom by MD Eades and her iPhone<\/p>\n

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I’m taking a short break from the great Anthony Colpo smackdown to report on all the goings on with the ‘wretched’ choral society and the Beatles concert.\u00a0 As I’ve mentioned before, MD has been pushing for a Beatles concert since she’s been the president (her three-year term will be mercifully over on June 30, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}