My version of secret rock history has the over-educated and frustrated classical musician George Martin leading the school dropouts Beatle boys toward string quartets, flutes and eventually toward Sergeant Pepper’s ridiculous and altogether and unfortunately too influential self-indulgence and pretense. Pepper is his baby! It ain’t art, baby, it’s rock and roll. Thank Heaven for the Sex Pistols.
He had half the compositions on the Yellow Submarine album.
He even got money from Hard Day’s Night film soundtrack and Help film soundtrack sales.
The Beatles albums we know today on vinyl and CD aren’t the ones that were available in the 60s, 70s, or 80s.