George Martin, the Beatles' record producer (1926-2016)

[ctraynor]

Ok, I'll do it. I'm sure he must have had a connection to TV somewhere.

George Martin RIP

[Clive]

Well he did compose "King's Road", the rather excellent theme tune to "Why Don't You...?"

[Simon Coward]

...and the David Frost theme.

[Nigel Stapley]

And anyway, he had a radio connection in that he composed Theme One which was the first piece of music played on Radio 1 in 1967 (looks around nervously, sure that he'll be contradicted), and which featured regularly on the station in various rôles - both his own version and the cover by Van De Graff Generator - for years.

[fatcat]

Ok, I'll do it. I'm sure he must have had a connection to TV somewhere.

George Martin RIP

Yes your ok- he did a TV music special for Yorkshire TV (I think) in 1969 -probably wiped ?

[ctraynor]

Wasn't there an Arena doc on him? Think I must have missed it.

[GaryA]

Wasn't there an Arena doc on him? Think I must have missed it.

It was on Wednesday evening.

Still available on BBC iplayer.

[ctraynor]

Remember now, caught the end of it. Also, I can't remember (a whole lot all of a sudden) whether I saw the doc on The Making of Sgt Pepper which obviously Martin would have been a big part of.