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Author:	Norman 'Hurricane' Smith
Title:	John Lennon Called Me Normal
Subtitle:	The Man That Got The Sound That Changed The World
Publisher:	Lulu
Country:	UK
Date:	11 Apr 2008
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Music, Biography
ISBN13 / Barcode:	9781409202905
First Published:	2007
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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516 pages. Book dimensions: 15.1 cms x 3.1 cms x 22.8 cms.

Norman 'Hurricane' Smith was an English musician, record producer and engineer. He was the engineer on all of the EMI studio recordings by The Beatles until 1965, when EMI promoted him from engineer to producer. The last Beatles album he recorded was Rubber Soul, and Smith engineered the sound for almost 100 Beatles songs in total. John Lennon first bestowed upon Smith the nickname of 'Normal', and it was quickly picked up by the other Beatles.

Lennon did so as a humorous reference to Smith`s very unhurried and unflappable nature. In early 1967, he began working with a new group, Pink Floyd, producing their first, second, and fourth studio albums The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, A Saucerful of Secrets, and Ummagumma. The book contains never before published pictures, newly revealed historical facts about the Beatles and Pink Floyd at Abbey Road Studios, as well as details of Smith`s life as an RAF glider pilot.

The book debuted on 16 March 2007 as a limited edition at The Fest For Beatles Fans in Secaucus, New Jersey.

From lulu.com:

Norman Smith never followed the rulebook. He was at the Beatles audition in 1962 and if he had followed the ‘standing orders’ from Abbey Road, the band would have been sent back to Liverpool. Later, as head of an EMI company, Parlophone, Norman sent out a ‘looking for talent’ letter to agents, only to be accused of poaching artists from other companies. But, against EMI's orders, Norman went off to check out a new band in a smelly basement club. The club was called UFO; the band was called Pink Floyd.

But Norman’s life was like that. In his late 40’s, he decided to reinvent himself as either Hurricane Smith or Amos Gherkin. He hatched a plan to get his first record released, which involved bugging the EMI ‘New Releases’ committee to find out what they thought of it ASAP, so that he would be ‘ahead of the game.’ He was reticent ab

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