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George Marino, RIP

George Marino

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.

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]

RIP George Marino. Check out some videos of tracks from those albums he mastered below…

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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