Phil McDonald was an English recording engineer who worked on The Beatles’ records at EMI’s Abbey Road studios from 1965. He shared the Grammy for Best Engineered Recording with Geoff Emerick for Abbey Road (1969), and later engineered for the former Beatles’ solo projects and artists including the Rolling Stones, Roy Orbison and Deep Purple. His death was announced by Abbey Road Studios on 27 October 2026.

Born in 1946, he joined the studio at 18, starting in the tape library before becoming a tape operator.