ISBN10: 1592401791, ISBN13: 9781592401796, [publisher: Gotham Books] Hardcover First Edition First edition, 1st printing. Foreword by Elvis Costello. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "The innovative recording engineer who recorded the Beatles' greatest albums and singles reveals the extraordinary inside story of how the Fab Four created their best-loved songs. [] In 1962, at the age of fifteen, Geoff Emerick landed his dream job as assistant recording engineer at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London. At the time, the facility was world-renowned for classical recordings, but it was also the home of an obscure comedy label named Parlophone, run by producer George Martin. On just his second day there, Emerick was present as a scruffy-looking quartet from Liverpool called the Beatles came in for their first-ever recording session. Their sound was rough, but the band made an indelible impression on EMI's staffers and on young Emerick in particular, not least because of the way John and Paul confronted George Martin, insisting on recording a song they had written themselves, rather than the bland fare the label wanted. That song, 'Love Me Do,' soon rocketed up the charts, and popular music has never been the same. [] Over the next seven years, Emerick would work alongside the Beatles as they transformed from teenage amateurs into an international sensation unlike anything the world had ever known. At the age of ...