PLAYBACK George Martin signed Beatles OOP
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- SOLD OUT - Playback - An Illustrated Memoir - THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE MARTIN FOREWORDS BY PAUL MCCARTNEY AND RINGO STARR. AFTERWORD BY PRINCE CHARLES. A SIGNED AND NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION BOOK/CD SET OF 2000 COPIES. [More footage: Ringo shares his favourite story of George in The Picture House] 'Playback is George Martin's autobiography, but more than that, it is the history of pop music by the man who shaped it in a career spanning 50 years.' 'Anyone familiar with Genesis Publications will know what to expect, and certainly won't be disappointed... with this lavishly produced quarter-bound leather limited edition.' British Beatles Fan Club Magazine 'The pulling power of Playback lies in its previously unseen documents relating to John, Paul, George and Ringo. Here are diary entries for Martin's first meeting with Epstein; his original score for Eleanor Rigby; and recording notes scribbled at EMI's Abbey Road Studios.' The Herald Sun, Australia, October 2002 [CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE REVIEWS] Featuring a 50,000-word new text by the world's most celebrated music producer on his unparalleled career. Illustrated throughout with a wealth of rare and unpublished photographs and documents from George Martin's private collection, augmented by a wide selection of rare images by leading photographers. Bound in quarter black leather with buckram-covered boards, chromium name plate, silver page edges and silver tooling. Accompanied by a CD produced solely for this limited edition box set, featuring tracks especially recorded as well as other rare and unreleased recordings of historical significance. The whole book-and-CD set is housed in a custom-designed solander box. Every copy is personally autographed by George Martin and individually numbered. Publication date: March 2003 Prices: Deluxe £425 [SOLD OUT], Regular £375 [SOLD OUT] This track is featured on the CD available exclusively with Playback. 'Without George Martin the world would have been a different place.' Ringo Starr, from his Foreword to Playback. Cast of Characters Playback covers George Martin's association with the following... Larry Adler Aerosmith America Benny Andersson Eamonn Andrews Richard Attenborough Burt Bacharach Shirley Bassey Mike Batt Jeff Beck The Beatles The Bee Gees Elmer Bernstein Beyond the Fringe Cilla Black Jon Bon Jovi Eve Boswell Gary Brooker Glenn Campbell JosÚ Carreras Jim Carrey Cheap Trick Eric Clapton Phil Collins Ray Cooper Peter Cook Bernard Cribbins Jim Dale John Dankworth David and Jonathan Celine Dion Brian Epstein Geraint Evans Ella Fitzgerald Geoff Emerick Flanders and Swann The Four Tune Tellers The Fourmost Peter Frampton The Frog Chorus David Frost Judy Garland The George Martin Orchestra Gerry & the Pacemakers George Gershwin Stan Getz John Gielgud Ron Goodwin Rolf Harris George Harrison Sidney Harrison Goldie Hawn Mary Hopkin Anthony Hopkins Hurricane Hugo Michael Jackson Dick James Antonio Carlos Jobim Elton John Catherine Zeta Jones Quincy Jones Tom Jones The King's Singers Mark Knopfler Billy J Kramer & the Dakotas Gene Krupa Cleo Laine John Lennon Dick Lester The Little River Band London Baroque Ensemble Sophia Loren Humphrey Lyttelton Paul McCartney Kenneth McKellar John McLaughlin Henry Mancini The Mastersingers Brian May Spike Milligan Matt Monro Dudley Moore Carl Perkins Jon Pertwee The Prince's Trust Jonathan Pryce Tommy Reilly Cliff Richard Ralph Richardson Kenny Rogers Harry Saltzmann Seatrain Harry Secombe Neil Sedaka Peter Sellers Jimmy Shand Paul Simon Frank Sinatra Johnny Spence Ringo Starr Tommy Steele Rod Stewart Sting and The Police Roger Taylor The Temperance Seven That Was The Week That Was Dylan Thomas Sidney Torch Pete Townshend Bjorn Ulvaeus Midge Ure and Ultravox Peter Ustinov The Vipers Skiffle Group Alfred Waterhouse Jimmy Webb John Williams Robin Williams Brian Wilson Winter Consort Steve Winwood Chris Wright Stevie Wonder ... and many more. George Martin and John Lennon In 1962, as head of Parlophone Records, George Martin signed a new band from Liverpool that had been turned down by nearly every other label in Britain. The rest is history. He went on to record every track made by The Beatles and is considered to have been a vital influence on their sound, enabling them to realise their ideas as their music became increasingly ambitious. The world's most successful music producer has now written a charming memoir of his life and career. During the two years that Playback has taken to come to fruition, Genesis Publications were allowed generous access to the private collection of George Martin and to EMI Archives. Among the unseen historic documents featured in Playback are the diary entry for George's first meeting with Brian Epstein which directly led to him signing The Beatles; notes written in the studio while recording their tracks; George's original music score for 'Eleanor Rigby'; and plans for a 'hare-brained scheme' to build a studio on a ship. Private photographs include shots of John and Cynthia Lennon, George Harrison, Brian Epstein and Cilla Black, and others taken in Florida on The Beatles' first US trip in early 1964. Though George Martin's name will forever be associated with The Beatles, his career has encompassed far more than those four peerless talents. Before the Sixties he had already achieved success as 'the comedian's producer'; indeed he has recorded a large number of the major talents of the past fifty years, as a glance at the Cast of Characters on the right will confirm. He holds the record for having produced the most UK Number One singles (30). In 1963, records produced by him topped the UK charts for 34 out of 52 weeks, a mark that will surely never be matched. He is also an accomplished composer, arranger and conductor, the winner of five Grammy awards, the designer of three state-of-the-art music studios, an acclaimed television documentary presenter and a towering figure in the music business and Western culture. From working-class beginnings in London in the Twenties, to a knighthood, the Party at the Palace, and the biggest-selling single of all time ('Candle in The Wind 97'), it's quite a tale, and George Martin tells it in full for the first time in Playback. George Martin and The Beatles Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren 'I count myself lucky to have known Sir George Martin for over two decades and to have benefited from his extraordinary talent.' Prince Charles from his Afterword Visit the Picture House, which features three QuickTime movies: one in which George reflects on the making of Playback, another is footage from his visit to the printers in Milan, scored by his own composition, 'Waltz in C Minor', which is featured on the CD and lastly, George playing on piano his own first composition, 'The Spider's Dance', also featured on the CD. Playback is a supreme example of the art of the printer, the bookbinder and the boxmaker. The 328 pages (page size 290mm x 215mm) are masterprinted onto acid-free paper, of which 264 pages are on high-quality 200gsm matt art stock, 56 pages are on a fine textured 160gsm Fabriano paper and eight pages are on a bright orange, uncoated 160gsm Fedrigoni stock. There is a combination of colour and monochrome photography throughout and full colour endpapers. Each page is edged in silver. Every copy of the limited edition has been personally autographed by Sir George Martin CBE as a mark of his approval. Of the 2000 copies, those numbered 251 to 2,000 are quarter-bound in black leather, with hard-wearing buckram-covered boards adorned with a chromium name plate and silver tooling. Copies numbered 1 to 250 are Deluxe copies, bound in full black leather, foil-blocked in silver, with the chromium name plate. Deluxe copies also feature a special copy of the EMI 6-CD box set compliation Produced by George Martin, each of which is additionally signed by George Martin himself. All copies, Deluxe or regular, are housed in a specially-designed, hinged solander box, the cover of which is fashioned to give the appearance of a loudspeaker. The inside panels resemble part of a control desk and a turntable; the latter houses the accompanying Playback CD. Each one of the 2,000 copies of Playback is personally autographed by George Martin and individually numbered Each of the 2,000 copies of Playback is accompanied by a music CD compiled and pressed exclusively for this project, featuring the following tracks: Two Matt Monro songs which were co-written by George Martin: 'Can This Be Love' and an unreleased demo version of 'No One Will Ever Know'. (1961) Unreleased versions of The Temperance Seven's 'Take Me Over' and 'Carole', from the Take Me Over film soundtrack. (1962) 'Bond Meets Solitaire', composed and performed by George Martin, from the Live And Let Die soundtrack. (1973) Three American Sketches, a three-part suite composed by George Martin. Unreleased performance by Tommy Reilly and Rundfunkorchester des Hessischer Rundfunks (conductor: Christian Stalling). This arrangement of the piece for harmonica and orchestra has never been released by anyone. (1981) The orchestral 'Main Theme' from Under Milk Wood, composed by George Martin. (1988) 'Here, There and Everywhere': a performance of The Beatles' classic by Göran Söllscher (guitar) and Malmö Symfoni Orkester, recorded live in Malmo. Arranged and conducted by George Martin. (1993) Solo piano performances by George Martin of two of his own compositions, specially recorded for this set: 'The Spider's Dance' (his first ever creation, written at age eight) and 'Waltz in Cm'. (2002) Produced by George Martin, the 6-CD box set, a special signed copy of which is included with each Deluxe copy (those numbered 1 to 250) of Playback 'There is so much to be said about George that I think the best thing is to leave it to him to explain it, as he does so eloquently in this fine book.' Sir Paul McCartney, from his Foreword Playback is a must-have for the library of any collector of fine books on the music of the past half-century. George Martin's life and career have closely followed and, more often than not, helped to shape the course of this extraordinary era during which popular music has been revolutionised. Playback is also the first time George has written a full autobiography, starting with his happy but humble childhood and wartime service in the Fleet Air Arm, right up to the present day. Playback continues a series of major Genesis limited editions on The Beatles, including George Harrison's I Me Mine, Derek Taylor's Fifty Years Adrift, Michael Cooper's Blinds and Shutters, Ravi Shankar's Raga Mala and Hamburg Days by Klaus Voormann and Astrid Kirchherr. Copies of Playback will be in great demand so early ordering is strongly advised. 'Genesis books are in a league of their own. They speak a visual language constructed on their own terms and they're finished to a quality which reduces other, mere ordinary books to the level of pulp paperbacks. Just as importantly, their texts open up the worlds of their subjects... rewarding the reader with unprecedented access and insight.'Record Collector Magazine.
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