In this May 24, 2006, file photo, Beatles producer Sir George Martin answers a question from the media after the sneak preview of a new Beatles-themed Cirque du Soleil show, “Love,” in Las Vegas on Wednesday, May 24, 2006. 
In this Feb. 10, 2008, file photo, musician Ringo Starr, center, and Beatles producer Sir George Martin accept the best compilation soundtrack album award for “Love” during the 50th annual Grammy awards held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. George Martin, the producer who guided the Beatles to astounding heights, has died, his manager said on March 9, 2016. He was 90. LONDON – George Martin, the Beatles’ urbane producer who guided, assisted and stood aside through the band’s swift, historic transformation from rowdy club act to musical and cultural revolutionaries, has died, his management said Wednesday. He was 90.
“We can confirm that Sir George Martin passed away peacefully at home yesterday evening,” Adam Sharp, a founder of CA Management, said Wednesday in an email.
He called Martin “one of music’s most creative talents and a gentleman to the end.”
He said Martin started producing records for EMI’s Parlophone label in 1950, working on comedy recordings with Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and others. Martin had his first No. 1 hit in 1961 with The Temperance Seven and, with The Beatles, “helped revolutionize the art of popular music recording.”
“In a career that spanned seven decades he was an inspiration to many and is recognized globally as one of music’s most creative talents,” Sharp said. Too modest to call himself the “Fifth Beatle,” a title many felt he deserved, the tall, elegant Londoner produced some of the most popular and influential albums of modern times – “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” ”Revolver,” ”Rubber Soul,” ”Abbey Road” – elevating rock LPs from ways to cash in on hit singles to art forms, “concepts.” He won six Grammys and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1999. Three years earlier, he was knighted.