Chips Chipperfield - R.I.P.

Умер ЧИПС ЧИППЕРФИЛД - продюсер "Антологии Битлз" и множества других телепроектов:

TV Credits


Tina Turner: Girl From Nutbush ( 1998 / Released ): Producer
Danny Boy "In Sunshine Or in Shadow" ( 1997 / Released ): Producer
The Beatles Anthology ( 1995 / Released ): Producer
Tina Turner: Going Home ( 1993 / Released ): Producer
The Nicholas Brothers: We Sing and We Dance ( 1992 / Released ): Producer
Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio ( 1991 / Released ): Producer
Paul McCartney: Put It There ( 1989 / Released ): Producer
Joshua Tree [DVD] (2000) - U2

Beatles Anthology producer dies

14:36 | Friday August 15, 2008

By Paul Williams

The Beatles have paid tribute to award-winning Anthology documentary producer Chips Chipperfield who has passed away.

Chippefield shared a Grammy Award in 1997 with Apple Corps head and project co-producer Neil Aspinall and directors Bob Smeaton and Geoff Wonfor for the acclaimed documentary, the most intensive and detailed video history ever put together of the Fab Four.

On The Beatles’ official website Chipperfield, who died of a heart attack in Ireland on Tuesday, is described as “warm, wise and kind, he was loved and respected by all those who worked with him”. The tribute adds, “His youthful spirit and enthusiasm for life will continue to be an inspiration to all those who knew him. He will be dearly missed by all of us.”

Chipperfield also worked on countless other music documentaries and films, including Hendrix: Band Of Gypsies, which won him a Grammy in 2000 with Neil Aspinall and Bob Smeaton, Tina Turner: Girl From Nutbush, Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio and Put It There, and Classic Albums programmes covering such albums as Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Stevie Wonder’s Songs In The Key Of Life.

His passing comes just five months after long-time Apple Corps head Neil Aspinall and Anthology co-producer Neil Aspinall died from lung cancer.

Beatles pay tribute to Anthology producer Chips Chipperfield


Bob Smeaton, who was co-director, along with Geoff Wonfor, of the Beatles Anthology, sent us this exclusive statement:

Chips Chipperfield

Chips was one of my best friends, and was responsible for making the time I spent working on the Beatles Anthology one of the happiest and exciting times of my life. We would often remark on how fortunate we were to be able to come into work and spend the whole day listening to Beatles music. Whenever we would have a section of the programme edited we would invite Chips into the edit suite and it was always great to see a big smile break across his face, this was a sign that he was happy with the work we were doing.

Chips and I worked on a number of other projects together outside of the Beatles and even when were we not working on projects together I would ring him and ask for his advice and he was always happy to pass on his knowledge. Anyone who met Chips would remark on his friendliness and his great head of hair and his infectious laugh. I will miss him very much.

Cheers,
Bob Smeaton

(8/16/2008, updated 10:15 a.m. ET 8/16/08) Chips Chipperfield, who produced the Beatles Anthology and won a 1996 Grammy Award (along with Neil Aspinall, Bob Smeaton, Geoff Wonfor and The Beatles for Best Long Form Music Video for the project), and also produced documentaries on Paul McCartney ("Liverpool Oratorio" from PBS' "Great Performances", "Put It There"), Jimi Hendrix ("Hendrix: Band of Gypsies"), the Pet Shop Boys, Elizabeth Taylor and The Who, has died after a heart attack suffered Tuesday in Ireland, reports musicweek.com. He was 65.

The Beatles issued the following statement on their website:
Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Chips Chipperfield, who has sadly passed away. Chips was the Grammy award winning producer of the Beatles Anthology, and a long serving member of the Apple Corps family. Warm, wise and kind, he was loved and respected by all those who worked with him. His youthful spirit and enthusiasm for life will continue to be an inspiration to all those who knew him. He will be dearly missed by all of us.

And former McCartney publicist Geoff Baker sent us this exclusive statement:

Chip was a lovely, lovely man - like most if not all of Neil's Boys, he was unorthodoxly creative and that made him a joy and a gas to work with. He was the producer of The Beatles Anthology, the greatest TV achievement in the history of rock and roll and, more than that, the lovely thing about Chips was whenever he hugged you, you always felt that he meant it. We will all miss him hugely.

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