{"id":240058,"date":"2026-01-15T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/240058\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:58:08","slug":"george-martins-classic-beatles-scores-collected-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/240058\/","title":{"rendered":"George Martin\u2019s Classic Beatles Scores Collected in New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGeorge Martin<\/a> became the world\u2019s most legendary producer with the Beatles<\/a>, the studio wizard who teamed up with four lads from Liverpool to transform music. Now his music has been collected in a lavish new book, George Martin: The Scores, which will be published in April by Curvebender<\/a>. It\u2019s the first collection of his music manuscripts, opening up his personal archives. The Scores honors the late Sir George Martin on the occasion of his centenary \u2014 he was born 100 years ago, on Jan. 3, 1926.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe three-volume book includes dozens of his original handwritten scores for classics like \u201cStrawberry Fields Forever,\u201d \u201cA Day in the Life,\u201d \u201cHere Comes the Sun,\u201d \u201cYesterday,\u201d \u201cLive and Let Die,\u201d and more. It also has a foreword from one of his biggest fans and closest collaborators: Paul McCartney.<\/p>\n

\n\tGeorge\u2019s son Giles Martin, an acclaimed producer in his own right, tells Rolling Stone, \u201cIt\u2019s a book of art, if you like, because his scores are very beautiful. There\u2019s a fluidity to it. There\u2019s a vibrancy to looking at that music on a page.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Scores is a project that began in the producer\u2019 final years, before his death in 2016<\/a>. \u201cIt was a very poignant project,\u201d Giles says. \u201cIt was an idea I had with the Curvebender guys. Actually, when my dad was ill, I thought this would be a good thing to keep him going \u2014 let\u2019s do a book of his scores.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMartin was deeply involved in the project, despite his declining health. \u201cHe liked the idea, and then he died. I mean, he was 90,\u201d Giles Martin says. But the producer dug deep into his vaults. \u201cWhat it is, essentially, is a selection of his scores that we have taken and perfectly reproduced, in the same way that the \u2018Yesterday\u2019 score was done all those years ago. It\u2019s a book of his scores with commentary \u2014 a deep dive into each arrangement, the history behind it, and a deep dive into how it was done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThese are the manuscripts Martin saved after the recording sessions. Since they were his working sheet music in the studio, they include his handwritten edits, for an inside look at his creative process. Some have his ideas for alternate arrangements that didn\u2019t make the final cut. The book also comes with an album: orchestral re-recordings of his scores, for a closer listen to his work. They were done in Studio Two at Abbey Road, the room where Martin made so much magic happen with the Beatles.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Standard Edition includes a USB drive with audio files. The Deluxe Edition comes in a clamshell case with a CD, a conductor\u2019s baton, a stand-alone reproduction of a Martin score, and a Blu-Ray disc with documentary footage of the re-recording sessions at Abbey Road. And for the hardcore collectors, there\u2019s also a limited Signature Edition personally inscribed by George Martin himself \u2014 he signed them for this project when work began, though he didn\u2019t live to see the final result. All three editions are available now for preorder, from Curvebender.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSir George \u2014 \u201cMr. Martin,\u201d to the band \u2014 was the producer who signed John, Paul, George, and Ringo. But more than that, he made the bold decision to let them write their own songs \u2014 practically unheard-of in the pop world in those days. His background was classical music. \u201cI\u2019m not a rock & roll person,\u201d he once admitted. \u201cI used to like polo neck sweaters. Still do. And I\u2019m partial to the odd blazer. But there was a conscious effort on my part not to conform, by not joining them. I didn\u2019t grow my hair long until after the Beatles were ended.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut it was his expertise that helped the band evolve and experiment, bringing their craziest ideas to life in Abbey Road. (To pick just one famous example, he composed and played the piano solo in \u201cIn My Life,\u201d then sped it up to sound almost like a harpsichord.) From \u201cYesterday\u201d to \u201cEleanor Rigby\u201d to \u201cI Am the Walrus,\u201d his orchestrations were a crucial part of their music.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s beautiful to see on the page, in his handwriting,\u201d Giles Martin says. \u201cFor a big man, he wrote very little notes.\u201d But those notes helped make history. \u201cWhen you see it written down, you realize that no one would hear this music, including him, until it was played. And now it\u2019s the other way around \u2014 you\u2019re looking at the music that was played.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Martin became the world\u2019s most legendary producer with the Beatles, the studio wizard who teamed up with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,89065,85,46,409,17405],"class_list":{"0":"post-240058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-george-martin","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-the-beatles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}