{"id":12840,"date":"2026-10-31T11:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T15:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=12840"},"modified":"2026-10-31T11:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T15:33:15","slug":"sound-engineer-phil-mcdonald-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2026\/10\/sound-engineer-phil-mcdonald-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound engineer Phil McDonald dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Abbey_road_studios.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Abbey_road_studios.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Road Studios\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Abbey_road_studios.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Abbey_road_studios-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Abbey_road_studios-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Phil McDonald<\/strong>, a sound engineer at EMI&#8217;s Abbey Road studios (pictured), has died.<\/p>\n<p>The studio announced his death Oct. 27. It gave no age nor cause. Wikipedia lists his age as 80 at his passing on Oct. 25.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald built an impressive resume with <strong>The Beatles<\/strong>, including work on &#8220;Revolver,&#8221; &#8220;Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band,&#8221; &#8220;The White Album&#8221; and &#8220;Abbey Road.&#8221; He earned 1970&#8217;s &#8220;Best Engineered Recording \u2013 Non-Classical&#8221; Grammy Award for his efforts on the later, along with <strong>Geoff Emerick<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He also worked on solo projects for all members of The Beatles, as well as <strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>, <strong>Harry Nilsson<\/strong>, <strong>Deep Purple<\/strong>, <strong>Squeeze<\/strong>, <strong>Roy Orbison<\/strong> and many others.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of five engineers credited on <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong> co-founder <strong>Syd Barrett<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;The Madcap Laughs&#8221; album, released on 1970.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo: Abbey Road exterior in 2005; Wikipedia, under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil McDonald, a sound engineer at EMI&#8217;s Abbey Road studios (pictured), has died. The studio announced his death Oct. 27. It gave no age nor cause. Wikipedia lists his age as 80 at his passing on Oct. 25. McDonald built an impressive resume with The Beatles, including work on &#8220;Revolver,&#8221; &#8220;Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12844,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840\/revisions\/12844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}