Norman Smith (record producer)

Norman Smith
Background information
Also known as	Hurricane Smith
Born	(1923-02-22)22 February 1923 Edmonton, Middlesex, England
Died	3 March 2008(2008-03-03) (aged 85) East Sussex, England
Genres	Jazz
Occupations	Record producer recording engineer singer musician
Instruments	Piano drums trumpet vocals
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.