George Martin Produced Cheap Trick Album “All Shook Up” In 1980 [VIDEO]

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Still looking back on the great career of music producer George Martin, the producer and arranger for all The Beatles albums except the final one.

Martin, who died Tuesday at age 90, produced over 200 Beatles songs. While signing and working with The Beatles is correctly his career apex, he also produced music for classic rockers like Jeff Beck, Pete Townshend, Elton John, Dire Straits and Cheap Trick.

Our home state band, Cheap Trick, which will be inducted in the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class in April, brought Martin on for its fifth album, “All Shook Up.” It was the first album the band used a producer other than Tom Werman, and only time Martin produced a Cheap Trick album, mainly because it didn’t sell that well.

The band was looking to grow and find another direction, but commercially, the move back fired. Both Martin and the members of Cheap Trick loved working with one another. Rick Nielsen said this week, “He was the best producer we ever worked with.”

Here’s a song from the album, “Stop This Game,” a song that got some rock radio airplay and charted the highest of any singles from the album. The album unfortunately didn’t produce big radio hits and lacked airplay, but that doesn’t make it a bad album. It didn’t catch my ear enough to purchase it, but I do like the sound and some songs from it. BTW, April 1st is Cheap Trick Day in Illinois in honor of the home state heroes reaching the Hall of Fame.

Doc Watson

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