Giles Martin was born on 9 October 1969, which was also
John Lennon's 29th birthday. He first played in the band Velvet Jones, then wrote
jingles in college. In his teenage years, Giles worked as an assistant for his father, whose hearing started to decline in the mid-1970s; Giles noted that "I became his ears when I was quite young," helping George hide his disability from the public. In 1995, Giles was appointed music co-director for the television and radio music countdown show,
The Great Music Experience. He worked on the
Party at the Palace concert to celebrate
Queen Elizabeth II's
Golden Jubilee, for which he also produced the subsequent album and DVD. In 2004 he produced
Hayley Westenra's multi-platinum album
Pure, the UK's fastest-selling
classical album of all time. Other acts Martin has worked with include
Kula Shaker,
Jeff Beck,
Elvis Costello,
INXS,
Kate Bush,
Elton John and
the Rolling Stones. In 2006 Martin collaborated with his father to remix, rearrange and recombine the music of the Beatles into a soundscape for
Love, a theatrical production of
Cirque du Soleil, which opened at
the Mirage in Las Vegas. His use of digital music production and manipulation techniques allowed him to create
Love's musical
mash-ups, which he updated in 2016 for the show's 10th anniversary. He produced the music for the final Broadway performance of
Rent and worked with
Martin Scorsese on his
George Harrison film documentary
Living in the Material World. Further film collaborations include working with
Ron Howard on his Beatles documentary feature
Eight Days A Week and the British action franchise
Kingsman. Martin was music director for the
Elton John biopic
Rocketman. In 2009 Martin returned to the Beatles' catalogue with
The Beatles: Rock Band, a video game that allows players to simulate performing Beatles songs with plastic instruments. Martin produced the title's music, cleaning and reworking the audio to suit the game's mechanics. In 2013, Martin produced tracks and served as executive producer on
Paul McCartney's New album. He was the producer in charge of the 50th anniversary Beatles remix/deluxe editions of ''
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (2017), the White Album (2018), Abbey Road (2019), Let It Be (2021), Revolver (2022), 1962–1966 (The Red Album) (2023) and 1967–1970 (The Blue Album) (2023). Martin was music supervisor for the documentary series The Beatles: Get Back'', as well as music mixer along with Sam Okell. Martin has served as Head of Sound Experience since 2014 at
Sonos Inc., a company which builds wireless home audio systems. In late 2018, Martin was appointed as Head of Audio and Sound of the
Universal Music Group. The role was specifically created for Martin where he is based at UMG's
Abbey Road Studios. ==Awards==