Billboard: “Magic” Alex Mardas, Sham Studio Guru to the Beatles, Dies at 74
Anyone who’s dug down deep into Beatles history knows about “Magic” Alex Mardas, the technological “guru” to John Lennon and the rest of the band. While many of his electronics ideas have proven legit decades later, most of them are remembered more for what they didn’t do for the Beatles then what they did do.
As Billboard reported recently, Madras just passed away in Greece at the age of 74. Many engineers would have been tantalized to be in Madras’ position in 1969 — tasked with building the Beatles’ next recording studio at their famously crazed Apple headquarters:
In 1969, Mardas was chosen to put together a 78-track recording studio for them at Apple. But instead of the studio, The Beatles found only components from a German manufacturer still in boxes. When Allen Klein took over as The Beatles’ business manager, Klein pushed Mardas out for good.
78 tracks? An odd number, but still, any amount of channels for the Fab Four would have recorded some legendary sounds. Read Steve Marinucci’s full article for Billboard here.
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