“John Lennon's "Glass Onion", a daffy throwaway from the Beatles' self-titled album, isn't among the band's best songs. But a snippet fits very nicely in the third position on *Love*, the Beatles catalog remix album and Cirque de Soleil soundtrack created by George Martin and his son Giles. After an angelic "Because"-- a capella, but here fluffed up with bird songs-- there's the "A Hard Days Night"”
“George Martin was a great producer precisely insofar as he was the Beatles’ producer. His other great discovery was America, and nobody compares him to Christopher Columbus, so why mention him alongside Jerry Wexler or Timbaland? Praise Lennon-McCartney, then, that this Martin-produced — really, Martins-produced; son Giles cochaired — soundscape, which melds some hundred Beatles […]”
