K.J. Yossman When The Beatles’ producer George Martin – who is credited with supervising the band’s most famous recordings – was first introduced to the fab four his reaction was “Well that’s a silly name for a start.
Who’d ever want a group with the name ‘beetles’?”The anecdote emerged in rare footage shared by Martin’s son Giles Martin on Twitter on Wednesday.
I don’t normally share anything personal but this my dad from a while back explaining to my daughter he signed the Beatles. Ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Great decisions are made for the simplest reasons. “I figured if I like them this much other people might too” ❤️ pic.twitter.com/j4bf96b4zS— Giles Martin (@mashupmartin) January 19, 2022In the short clip, the world-famous producer, who went on to work with a plethora of top British pop acts including Cilla Black and Tom Jones, can be seen telling his young grand-daughter (Giles’s daughter) about his first encounter with Paul McCartney and co.“There were four of them,” says Martin. “And I said, ‘Who are they, what are they?’ And he [presumably the band’s manager, Brian Epstein] said ‘Well, they’re a group.
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