Hurricane Smith

HURRICANE SMITH d2008. English musician, record producer and engineer. He was the engineer on all of the EMI studio recordings by The Beatles until the autumn of 1965 when EMI promoted him from engineer to producer. The last Beatles album he recorded was Rubber Soul. He engineered the sound for almost 100 Beatles songs in total. In 1971, using a recording artist pseudonym of Hurricane Smith he had a UK No2 hit with "Don't Let it Die". This recording was a demo of a song that he had written with the hope that John Lennon would record it. When he played it for fellow record producer Mickie Most, he was impressed enough to tell him to release it as it was. In 1972, he enjoyed a transatlantic hit with "Oh Babe What Would You Say" which became a US No1 and UK No4. He died in Sussex aged 85 on March 3rd 2008