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He would rather trust the Maharishi, or Magic Alex, or, later, Allan Kllein, than the one person who gave him a chance and proved to the world that John was the genius he hoped he was.
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It’s a further display of John’s poor judgement of character. Never mind a keyboard player, the Beatles are desperate for someone who knows them well, who they can trust and who will work tirelessly for them in the absence of Brian Epstein. It’s a shame as Martin is exactly the sort of guy all four of them need at the time of the Get Back sessions. Ever gracious, Martin claimed he was going deaf at the time, although that didn’t stop him going on to produce lots of things for another 20 years. Even when the remaining Beatles got back together for the Anthology sessions, George insisted on getting in the world’s biggest impersonator of Martin’s style, Jeff Lynne, to produce rather than the real thing. You suspect Preston might have frowned at that, especially when he, like everybody else in the world, knows that every Beatles record up to this point had ‘Produced by George Martin’ written prominently on them.Īfter the split, neither John nor George ever worked with Martin again. John gives it away when he describes Martin to Billy Preston as “our A&R guy”. But as various pieces of recording equipment arrive you sense a tension in the air only assuaged when Glyn Johns, who’s been engineering early recordings, is officially made producer of the sessions. He’s not even their producer anymore, which is understandable at first as it’s supposed to be a rehearsal session. With a live performance in mind, perhaps they’re worried about being seen to have an old man with them (“he’s very clean”). He’s not bad on the ol’ joanna but the Beatles don’t even consider him. The guy who tickled the ivories on their early hits and played the baroque solo on In My Life, George Martin. The Beatles’ original keyboard player is standing right there guys.
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Eventually, Billy Preston will turn up out of nowhere and fill the role but there’s an obvious candidate hanging around not doing much. They keep going on about it, as both Paul and John want to stay with their guitars. The Beatles are looking for a keyboard player.