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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. George Martin and his second wife, Judy Lockhart-Smith, attended the Beatles' fancy dress party for "Magical Mystery Tour" as what characters?
2. How, according to George Martin, does a computer multiply 17 by 32?
3. Where did George Martin build his second AIR studio?
4. Why did George Martin ultimately agree, in 1976, to score the "Sergeant Pepper" film featuring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton?
5. Which film won the Oscar for musical direction, in the year George Martin was nominated?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is a compressor used in a recording studio?
2. What aspects of Dick Lester's direction does George Martin most admire, in the Beatles' film, "A Hard Day's Night"?
3. For the film, "The Family Way", what sort of tune did George Martin ask Paul McCartney to write, and what strategy did he employ when Paul McCartney was slow to comply?
4. Briefly describe the controversy surrounding John Lennon's comparison of the Beatles and Jesus.
5. Discuss two innovations predicted by George Martin in Chapter 15 that have since become reality.
6. Describe the early founding of AIR, Associated Independent Recording.
7. Why, as described in Chapter 10, did George Martin become increasingly frustrated with EMI?
8. What was the first film scored by George Martin, and why does he refer to the process as a nightmare?
9. How did Capitol Records come to take on the Beatles' records, even though they resisted at first?
10. Why did the creators of the James Bond film, "Live and Let Die", want someone other than songwriter Paul McCartney to sing the title song?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did George Martin's fairy godfather, Sidney Harrison, prove to be a major, recurring influence in his life?
Essay Topic 2
How did George Martin's experiences, recording classical artists and comedians at Parlophone, help to prepare him for his most famous role as the Beatles' producer?
Essay Topic 3
What are some of the major achievements of the Beatles, under the wing of George Martin, that make them the most successful and influential band in rock history? What barriers did they break, shocking at the time, that seem perhaps less radical in retrospect?
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