Paul Hicks (musician)

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.