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...many members of the cast or the audience recognized George Martin, who as the group's record producer surely deserves to be called the fifth Beatle? Martin, now 80, had with his son Giles confected the elaborate and imaginative soundscape for Love. When the extravaganza officially opens Friday night, the Martins will be joined by the surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and by George Harrison's widow Olivia and John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono. My guess is that they'll be pleased and moved...
...course, not everyone is famous. But anyone who sees and hears Love can fall in it. The night after Martin graced the show with his presence, the audience filed out after the final number - "All You Need Is Love," with four large screens displaying photo and film collages of the actual Fab Four - but one man seemed rooted to his seat. A thin fellow of about 60, with long gray hair that pony-tailed down his back, he held his head in his hands, his shoulders lurching as he sobbed softly. Such is the power of the Beatles' music, their...
...Here's the definitive Beatles reunion: of the group (heard working, playing and joking in the studio); of its prime collaborator, George Martin; and of the original Beatlemaniacs. Forty years after John said the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus," 40 summers after the release of Revolver, these one-time-teen fans are now their grandparents' age and - if they make the trip to the appropriately named Mirage, and if the gray-haired hippie in the bleachers is any indication - moist in reverie...
...Lalibert? could have no suaver guide through the Beatles' catalog than the Martins, father and son. George was not only present at the creation; he was crucial to it. He was the one who insisted that Ringo Starr (anyone, actually) replace Pete Best as the band's drummer. He gave the early hits a clean, full sound. And as Lennon and McCartney grew apart, but even more impressively grew, as songwriters, each found in the elder Martin an ideal ear and musical mind, a kind of co-creator. It was Martin who put a string quartet under Paul's solo...
...LEAVE GRANTED. To Martin George, 44, commercial director of British Airways (BA), and Iain Burns, 47, BA's head of communications, while a probe is conducted by British and U.S. regulators into alleged price-fixing by BA and other airlines; in London. The investigation is focused on ticket prices and fuel surcharges levied on flights to and from the U.K. American Airlines, United Airlines and Virgin Atlantic have confirmed that they are cooperating with investigators. If found guilty, BA could be fined up to $1.6 billion. The airline said it complies with all antitrust regulations, and declined to comment...