# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norman-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:07:14.232Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norman-smith"
name: "Norman Smith"
slug: "norman-smith"
description: "Norman Smith was an English musician, record producer and engineer. In the 1960s, he notably engineered all of the Beatles' EMI studio recordings up to the end of 1965 and produced three Pink Floyd albums including their first, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). He later had a successful recording career as Hurricane Smith, achieving a transatlantic hit single with \"Oh Babe, What Would You Say\" in 1972."
tagline: "British recording engineer, producer, musician (1923-2008)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Norman_Smith.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1923-02-22"
deathDate: "2008-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.55
  momentum:             1.758100737888996
  historical:           23.13194
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0807182"
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    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2RJ0iPw6LNjlxmbUiB3cfc"
    handle:    "2RJ0iPw6LNjlxmbUiB3cfc"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ნორმან სმითი (მუსიკალური პროდიუსერი)"
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    title: "Norman Smith"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Norman Smith"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump