Norman Smith

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Norman Smith is a musician and record producer. He was also an engineer on several of the albums by The Beatles up until 1965 when EMI promoted him from engineer to producer. The last Beatles album he would be involved with to a substantial degree would be Rubber Soul.

In early 1967, he was offered a new group, Pink Floyd, to produce, recording their seminal debut The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Smith only produced two albums for Pink Floyd as the band deemed him "too old-fashioned" for their tastes.

In 1968, Smith produced one of the first rock concept albums, The Pretty Things' S.F. Sorrow.

In the early 1970s, Smith, as a recording artist, had a US #3 hit "Oh Babe, What Would You Say" under the name Hurricane Smith. This recording was a demo of a song that Norman had written for a different artist to record. When he played it for record producer Mickie Most, Mickie was impressed enough to tell him to release it as it was.

Also from Smith's self-titled debut album was a second hit single, a cover of Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Who Was It?."

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