As a follow-up to my tribute to the late Norman Hurricane Smith, the Beatles’ first recording engineer at EMI, I’ll send you over to this link, where Seth Swirsky tells of his meeting with Norman.
Also The New York Times has a good obituary for Norman, with some details I haven’t seen elsewhere, including confirmation that the alias Hurricane Smith came from the title of a 1952 movie. At this link.
Seth is just as gaga as ANY self-respecting Boomer would be. You know, reading these bits on Norman, I have to say I had NO IDEA how big his influence was on the boys. I might even venture to say that he was pretty humble about and George Martin less so.