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Posted in music on June 5, 2012
George Marino, an engineer who mastered such classic albums as Stevie Wonder's Innervisions, John Lennon & Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy and Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction, died Monday after a yearlong bout with lung cancer. His age was not immediately available.RIP George Marino. Check out some videos of tracks from those albums he mastered below...A three-time Grammy winner, Marino joined Sterling Sound in 1973 and worked at the New York mastering facility ever since.
"Sterling Sound and the music industry as a whole has suffered a tremendous loss," the company said in a statement. "Words cannot express the sorrow we feel. George was family to us all, and we will miss him dearly."
Marino mastered an untold number of albums - AC/DC's Highway to Hell, Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet, Metallica's 1991 eponymous release, Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head, Whitney Houston's Whitney and Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, which won the 2011 Grammy for album of the year, were among the highlights. He also mastered some of the annual Grammy nominee CDs for the Recording Academy. [Billboard]
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John Lennon - "(Just Like) Starting Over"
Arcade Fire - "The Suburbs"
Stevie Wonder - "Higher Ground"
Guns N' Roses - "Welcome to the Jungle"
Metallica - "Enter Sandman"
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Posted by Anonymous | June 5, 2012 12:48 PM
^ fuck off. This guy deserves a little respect.
Posted by Anonymous | June 5, 2012 12:56 PM
Met George on many occasions he was a great and super talented guy.
He will be greatly missed R.I.P. George!
Posted by Anonymous | June 5, 2012 12:59 PM
RIP Pete Rose.
Posted by Anonymous | June 5, 2012 1:06 PM
^really? Shame he never got into the hall!
Posted by Anonymous | June 5, 2012 1:22 PM
1:06 is lying. Pete Rose is very much alive.
Posted by Anonymous | June 5, 2012 1:57 PM
Wait, then who is the guy in the pic? That's no Pete Rose? RIP Pete Rose
Posted by Anonymous | June 5, 2012 2:09 PM
^It's Lou Ferrigno. RIP Hulk.
Posted by Anonymous | June 5, 2012 2:15 PM
He doesn't look a thing like Pete Rose. You need eye surgery. No, scratch that, brain surgery.
Posted by Anonymous | June 5, 2012 2:21 PM
RIP 2:09's mother, who got fucked to death by the HIV positive male residents of Marcy Houses last night in the project quad (don't feel bad 2:09, she seemed to be really enjoying it right up to the end)
Posted by Anonymous | June 5, 2012 2:24 PM
R.I.P
Posted by Anonymous | June 6, 2012 8:35 AM