All You Need Is Ears Test | Final Test - Hard

George Martin
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All You Need Is Ears Test | Final Test - Hard

George Martin
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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. In the movie, "Yellow Submarine", what sound effect did George Martin contrive for the enormous monster that sucked up the yellow submarine and, eventually, the movie screen?

2. How many years after George Martin returned to England from America, did he finally receive his requested studio upgrades from EMI?

3. Which Beatles associate died from an accidental overdose in August 1967?

4. In Chapter 8, in George Martin's layer cake metaphor, what was the second layer in a four-track recording?

5. Members of what group invented an instrument called a Gizmo?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the early founding of AIR, Associated Independent Recording.

2. How did Capitol Records come to take on the Beatles' records, even though they resisted at first?

3. Briefly describe the controversy surrounding John Lennon's comparison of the Beatles and Jesus.

4. How is a click track used in scoring a film?

5. What sorts of diversions did the Beatles create, in order to get in and out of their hotel rooms in the U.S.?

6. What difficulties were presented by John Lennon's request that George Martin fuse together two unique versions of "Strawberry Fields Forever"?

7. What main advantage did George Martin gain from EMI, as a result of creating gold records with the Beatles?

8. As explained in Chapter 13, how does George Martin respond when asked how to become a successful record producer?

9. In the song, "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite", how did George Martin achieve his complex hurdy-gurdy effect?

10. In what way was the construction of the first AIR studio innovative, as described in Chapter 14?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does George Martin use the opening sequence in Chapter 1, featuring himself, the Beatles, and Brian Epstein in Paris, to lay the groundwork for their personalities and their relationships?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the unique collaborative writing style employed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. In the opinion of George Martin, how are their individual styles unique?

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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