Stars Support Tribute To Sound Engineer

They called him 'Vinyl' Blair and he cut records for some of the biggest names in the music world across four decades.

But the man who worked with bands from the Beatles to Coldplay is helping another high-flying act after his death. For £3500 collected from mourners, including stars, is helping the East Anglian Air Ambulance as its fund-raising soars to £3m a year with the doubling of its helicopter fleet.

Chris Blair spent more than 36 years as a respected sound engineer at EMI's famous Abbey Road studios in London, where his recording history reads like a Who's Who of pop. From helping on the Beatles' final album, he worked with names like the Rolling Stones, Mud, Kate Bush, Cliff Richard, Steve Harley, Sting, Phil Collins, Travis, Radiohead and Coldplay, right up to the chart-topping Arctic Monkeys. Queen even dragged him off a sick bed to cut their Bohemian Rhapsody due to his reputation.

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