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Also known as | Hurricane Smith |
Born | Edmonton, Middlesex, England | 22 February 1923
Died | 3 March 2008 East Sussex, England | (aged 85)
Genres | Jazz |
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Years active | 1959−2007 |
Norman Smith (22 February 1923 – 3 March 2008)[1] was an English musician, record producer and engineer. In the 1960s, he notably engineered all of the Beatles' EMI studio recordings up to the end of 1965 and produced three Pink Floyd albums including their first, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). He later had a successful recording career as Hurricane Smith, achieving a transatlantic hit single with "Oh Babe, What Would You Say" in 1972.