Paul Hicks is a British musician, audio engineer and mixer, who got his start working at Abbey Road Studios in London. Hicks has worked with several notable artists, including Coldplay,[1] Elliott Smith,[2] Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr,[3] in addition to his own band thenewno2.[4] Hicks has also been heavily involved in preserving the recordings of the Beatles, working with Giles Martin in remixing and remastering their entire catalogue.[5] He has won three Grammy Awards for his work on Beatles projects. His father is Hollies guitarist Tony Hicks.[6][7] He is a member of Dhani Harrison's band thenewno2.[8] Hicks has also worked on former Beatle George Harrison's posthumous releases, including the music for Martin Scorsese's 2011 documentary film George Harrison: Living in the Material World.[9]
In 2013, Hicks, along with his working partner Dhani Harrison, scored the film Beautiful Creatures.[10] In 2014, they scored the film, Learning to Drive,[11] as well as the AMC TV series The Divide.[12] Hicks and Harrison have gone on to score the music for the TV show Good Girls Revolt, the motion picture Seattle Road, and for the Paul Giamatti-produced show, Outsiders. In 2018, Hicks and Harrison received a nomination for 'Best Music Score' at the International Documentary Association Awards for their work on the Sundance Film Festival Award-winning documentary, Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.. Together with Harrison, Hicks has also written the original theme for the Netflix produced documentary show Dogs, scored the four-part HBO documentary series The Case Against Adnan Syed and the 2019 Bill Gates Netflix docuseries Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates.
- ^ "Live 2003 Bonus DVD by Coldplay @ARTISTdirect". Archived from the original on 17 December 2014. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
- ^ "Figure 8 - Elliott Smith | Credits". AllMusic.
- ^ "Good Evening New York City - Paul McCartney | Credits". AllMusic.
- ^ "You Are Here - thenewno2 | Credits". AllMusic.
- ^ "Remastering The Beatles". Soundonsound.com.
- ^ "Paul Hicks | Awards". AllMusic.
- ^ "THE BEATLES' CATALOGUE WINS 'BEST HISTORICAL ALBUM' GRAMMY | Music News | 93.3 WMMR: Everything That Rocks". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 14 March 2011.
- ^ Code, Speakers in (15 May 2023). "Interview | Paul Hicks of thenewno2 Discusses Working on the Score for WE TV's 'The Divide'". Speakersincode.com.
- ^ "Early Takes, Vol. 1". georgeharrison.com. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- ^ "Dhani Harrison and TheNewNo2 on Scoring 'Beautiful Creatures' and How It's Not Like 'Twilight' (Q&A)". The Hollywood Reporter. 17 February 2013.
- ^ "'Learning to Drive' to Feature Music by Dhani Harrison & Paul Hicks". Filmmusicreporter.com. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
- ^ "Dhani Harrison & Others Score the Divide - Trafficbeat". www.mikeragogna.com. Archived from the original on 12 September 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2022.