Norrie Paramor

Norrie Paramor was one of EMI's top producers in pop music and rock & roll up through the end of the '60s. For a time in England, he was the only record producer whose name teenagers might reasonably have been expected to recognize, because of his work in that capacity for more than a decade with pop/rock star Cliff Richard and his backing band, the Shadows. Indeed, he was almost single-handedly responsible for giving EMI's Columbia label the biggest stake in rock & roll of any record company in England during the late '50s and early '60s, where it had no previous presence in ...