George Martin
Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, The Record Producers (BBC Books), 1982
IN MUCH THE same way as Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were the first American record producers, that accolade in Britain belongs to the man whose name was arguably the first to be widely accepted as such, George Martin.
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