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Paul Hicks is a British musician, audio engineer and mixer, who got his start working at Abbey Road Studios in London. Hicks has worked with several notable artists, including Coldplay, [1] Elliott Smith, [2] Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, [3] in addition to his own band thenewno2. [4] Hicks has also been heavily involved in preserving the recordings of the Beatles, working with Giles Martin in remixing and remastering their entire catalogue. [5] He has won three Grammy Awards for his work on Beatles projects. His father is Hollies guitarist Tony Hicks. [6] [7] He is a member of Dhani Harrison's band thenewno2. [8] Hicks has also worked on former Beatle George Harrison's posthumous releases, including the music for Martin Scorsese's 2011 documentary film George Harrison: Living in the Material World . [9]

In 2013, Hicks, along with his working partner Dhani Harrison, scored the film Beautiful Creatures . [10] In 2014, they scored the film, Learning to Drive , [11] as well as the AMC TV series The Divide . [12] Hicks and Harrison have gone on to score the music for the TV show Good Girls Revolt, the motion picture Seattle Road, and for the Paul Giamatti-produced show, Outsiders. In 2018, Hicks and Harrison received a nomination for 'Best Music Score' at the International Documentary Association Awards for their work on the Sundance Film Festival Award-winning documentary, Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. . Together with Harrison, Hicks has also written the original theme for the Netflix produced documentary show Dogs , scored the four-part HBO documentary series The Case Against Adnan Syed and the 2019 Bill Gates Netflix docuseries Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates .

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