James George Nicol, known as Jimmie Nicol or Jimmy Nicol, is an English drummer born 3 August 1939, and best known for being a temporary member of The Beatles. When Ringo Starr collapsed and was hospitalised on 3 June 1964 with tonsillitis on the eve of The Beatles' 1964 Australasian tour, manager Brian Epstein and producer George Martin discussed the possibility of using a stand-in.

Mark Lewisohn (born 1958) is an English historian and writer acclaimed by fans and media as one of the world's foremost experts on The Beatles. He is the author of "The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road years" (ISBN 0-681-03189-1), written after he was commissioned by EMI in 1987 to listen to all of The Beatles' original session tapes.

Peter "Pete" Van Hooke (born April 6 1950) is a drummer in the English band Mike and the Mechanics (from 1985 to 1995 and 2004 to present), as well as having drummed for Van Morrison's band and Ezio. During the 1980s he successfully produced many of Tanita Tikaram's hits. Pete is married to Ruti and has three sons: Josh, Ben and Tom. He divides his time between London and his recording studio on La Gomera.

Ken Townsend is a renowned sound engineer who played an important role at Abbey Road Studios. He worked on several Beatles albums, such as "Rubber Soul", "Revolver" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". In 1966 he invented automatic double tracking (ADT).

Gladys Mills (1918- 1978), better known as Mrs Mills, was a pianist who was popular in the 1960s and released many records. She shot to fame during the same period as her stable-mates The Beatles, with whom she shared space at Abbey Road Studios (as mentioned in the Beatles Anthology DVD bonus materials). After previously working as the superintendent of the typing pool in the Paymaster General's office in London in December 1961, …

Simon Rhodes is an English audio engineer. He joined Abbey Road Studios in 1987 after completing an honours degree in physics and music. He has extensive classical experience and has engineered many major Hollywood film scores as well as co-producing many soundtrack albums. He has long-standing association with many film composers including James Horner, John Williams, Trevor Jones and John Debney.

David Mason is an English trumpet player now in retirement. Despite his long and distinguished career playing in many London orchestras and other ensembles and on many recording sessions, and teaching many of the trumpet players who now make up the core of the profession in the UK, he is most remembered, by many people, for one short tune. David Mason attended Christ Hospictal, a public school founded by Edward I. On January 17, …

Mike Stone (1951 – May 2002) was an English recording engineer and record producer. Stone was best known for his work with America, Asia (multiple albums), Blue Öyster Cult, George Carlin, Daniel Amos ("Horrendous Disc"), Foreigner, Journey, KISS, Queen (multiple albums), REO Speedwagon, Lou Reed, Frank Zappa and others. He also ran an independent record label Clay Records in the late 70s and early 80s, …

Joni James (born Giovanna Carmella Babbo, on September 22, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American singer of traditional pop music. James was born into an Italian family in Chicago. As an adolescent, she studied drama and ballet, and on graduating from high school, went with a local dance group on a tour of Canada. She then took a job as a chorus girl in the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago.

Bernard "Pretty" Purdie (born June 11, 1939) is an American drummer and session musician from Elkton, Maryland. He moved to New York in 1960 and began to record with various well-known soul, rock, pop, and jazz musicians. He has toured with saxophonist King Curtis, seminal bop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and saxophonist Hank Crawford and was Aretha Franklin's musical director for five years in the 1970's. He has also performed in concert with seminal bop drummer Max Roach.

Peter Shotton (born 4 August 1941) is a British businessman best known for his long friendship with John Lennon of The Beatles. Generally referred to as "Pete", he was a close boyhood friend of Lennon's, and also attended the Dovedale Infants School and Quarry Bank schools. Shotton was Lennon's bandmate in the Quarry Men, playing percussion (specifically, a washboard), until Paul McCartney joined.

Mark Wirtz is an Alsatian born producer of pop records. His most famous output being from the mid to late 1960s, when he worked at Abbey Road Studios alongside Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick, under contract to EMI. Wirtz is chiefly known for the never-completed "A Teenage Opera" concept album, from which only four songs were ever finished before a concerned EMI pulled the plug on the project.

Cesare Cremonini is an Italian singer-songwriter. Cremonini was the leader of Lùnapop, a successful and popular Italian pop band between 1999 and 2002. In 2002 Lùnapop was disbanded. He has since pursued a successful solo career. His Lùnapop bandmate, Nicola 'Ballo' Balestri, has joined him in his new band, along with other musicians. The singer's biggest solo hits include "Latin Lover", "Marmellata #25." and "Le tue parole fanno male".

Eleanor Steber (17 July 1914, Wheeling, West Virginia - 3 October 1990, Langhorne, Pennsylvania) was an American opera singer. She sang at the Metropolitan Opera from 1940 to 1961, a career chiefly distinguished for the high-lying soprano roles of Richard Strauss, and Mozart heroines as well. She was quite versatile, singing Wagner, Alban Berg, some French opera, …

Doug Ford is an Australian rock guitarist and songwriter of the 1960s and beyond. Born in Casino NSW Australia, 26/01/1945 He first came to prominence in the mid-1960s in Sydney as a member of the second incarnation of legendary Australian rock group The Missing Links (1965-66). This was followed by a stint in the Links' Melbourne-based successor Running Jumping Standing Still (1966-67).

Scarlet Party formed in Essex, England in the early 1980s: their sound combined contemporary and Sixties influences, and they were a popular live band until they split up in 1985. The band’s first single, "101 Dam-Nations", was released in November 1982 on EMI’s Parlophone label. The band’s 1982 recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios coincided with the Beatles’ 20th anniversary at EMI, and this helped to get them noticed.

Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews (born January 2, 1986) is a trombone and trumpet player from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Troy Andrews is the younger brother of trumpeter and bandleader James Andrews. Growing up in New Orleans' Treme neighborhood, "Trombone Shorty" was participating in brass band parades as a child, carrying his trombone even before his arms were long enough to reach all the positions of the slide.

Kim McLagan, "née" Maryse Elizabeth Patricia (Patsy) Kerrigan, (born Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom, December 30, 1948; died August 2, 2006, Travis County, Texas) was an English fashion model during the 1960s, most notably appearing in the global broadcast of The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" from Abbey Road Studios in 1967. She later became a cosmetologist.

Hayley Sanderson is a London-based singer who rose to fame with the release of her debut single "Something in the Air". The song was originally a #1 hit in the summer of 1969 for Thunderclap Newman, written by the band's drummer and vocalist Speedy Keen and produced by Who guitarist Pete Townshend. The song had been chosen by British telecommunications company TalkTalk to advertise free broadband on television.

Debra Byrne, born in Melbourne, Australia on 30 March, 1957, is an Australian entertainer. Byrne made her television debut on "Brian and the Juniors", an early predecessor of "Young Talent Time", which was hosted by a young Brian Naylor. She stayed with the show for 12 months. In 1971 she was cast as one of the original six "Young Talent Time" cast members.

Sam Burden is a London based record producer and sound engineer. He has produced The Ghost of a Thousand's debut album This Is Where The Fight Begins released on Undergroove Records, receiving 5K's in Kerrang magazine. The Album was mixed by Kurt Ballou of Converge. Sam also produced and mixed London's pop punk band Short Warning's debut album Saftey In Numbers released on Pyropit Records in Japan and Golf Records in the UK. He has recorded music for the BBC and ITV, …

Robin Sylvester is a London-born musician who is best known for his ongoing work with Ratdog. Although primarily a bass player, he plays several instruments, including the guitar and has done extensive arranging. Sylvester began his music career as audio engineer. Working as an assistant at Abbey Road Studios when the Beatles recorded their so-named album, he was inspired by Paul McCartney to take up the bass guitar.

So Emerick is in a unique position to throw light on the band's creative process as well as their personalities from the beginning to "The End," so to speak. Apart from George Martin and snippets from the boys themselves, few have been in a position to discuss the Beatles' studio work from the inside.

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Steve Rooke joined Abbey Road Studios in 1983 as a Mastering Engineer and has mastered recordings by a variety of artists over the years. Although Steve spends the majority of his time on pop projects, he describes his portfolio as 'very universal' including all types of pop, rock, dance, classical and jazz music.