Moments after greeting this writer outside his 260-year-old summer
home here, two hours west of London, Sir George Martin suggested we sit
in a gazebo at the high end of a manicured lawn. "I used to do the
mowing, but now I'm not allowed to operate heavy machinery," he said,
grinning. Tall and more youthful than his 86 years, Mr. Martin strides
with long, measured steps, his cobalt eyes alert with purpose. The
problem is his ears. Mr. Martin no longer can hear music and he must
rely on two hearing aids and lip-reading for conversations.
In a cruel twist, rock's most famous
record producer has become a victim of the very music he helped elevate
to a classic art form. Long hours of exposure to loud sound in recording
studios have inflicted permanent damage. It's a topic he talks about
openly in "Produced by George Martin" (Eagle Rock), a BBC documentary
that will be released on DVD in the U.S. on Tuesday.
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