I just finished Geoff Emerick's memoir "Here, There and Everywhere" (foreword by Elvis Costello)which deals with his time as the engineer for The Beatles. It is a truly strange book; it does have quite a lot of interesting stories but is stunningly ungracious in parts. He hardly has a good word to say about George Harrison who occasionally produces "surprisingly" good guitar solos but on the whole is described as dour and ham-fisted. Emerick regards Lennon as a gifted song-writer but fairly clueless in other aspects and despite his gratitude towards George Martin for hiring him has hardly a good word to say about Martin as a producer.

It is the writing which is most appalling, particularly Emerick's attempts to use direct dialogue which never seem real. Instead, every piece of dialogue feels like a caricature (eg - Ringo: "Come on, Paul, you know how much I hate drum solos").

Wondering how many out there in the Word community have read the book. I don't recall reading a review but I imagine that there were some. I admit to being quite amazed at the amount of negativity Emerick has towards Starr, Lennon and Harrison and irritated by the overuse of the vertical pronoun as he describes the contribution that he himself made towards the Beatles sound.