"One of the Most Fruitful Band/Producer Relationships in Rock History"

"Not that he wasn't already forward-thinking before meeting the Beatles. His New York Times obituary quotes a 2003 interview where Martin said that when he first joined EMI, 'the criterion by which recordings were judged was their faithfulness to the original. If you made a recording that was so good that you couldn't tell the difference between the recording and the actual performance, that was the acme. And I questioned that. I thought, O.K., we're all taking photographs of an existing event. But we don't have to make a photograph; we can paint. And that prompted me to experiment.'"

Spencer Kornhaber writes an appreciation of George Martin at The Atlantic.