Abbey Road up for sale
Posted by: Simon Drake on 16 February 2010
EMI are reportedly hoping to tackle their debts by selling off Abbey Road Studios, which I think as part of our British musical heritage, is a huge shame.
Any Beatles-crazed multi-millionaires out their?!
Any Beatles-crazed multi-millionaires out their?!
Posted on: 18 February 2010 by DrMark
quote:Originally posted by Jet Johnson:
.....I wonder what the average American would say if (say) the Sun Studios were to be sold off to a foreign buyer??
The average American (at least under age 40) wouldn't know what that meant anyway, and wouldn't care...too absorbed in video games and bad TV & "music"
Posted on: 18 February 2010 by Guido Fawkes
Well I think preserving Abbey Road as a Beatles and other music museum would be a great idea - and any political party who wants to make this an election issue can have my vote.
If HMG do not invest it in saving a national treasure then they'll only find something to waste the money on - more projects on global warming - no thanks, it snowed again today.
If HMG do not invest it in saving a national treasure then they'll only find something to waste the money on - more projects on global warming - no thanks, it snowed again today.
Posted on: 18 February 2010 by Guido Fawkes
I already bid £1, but Jono 13 outbid me at the beginning of this thread.quote:Put it on the market for three months and give people the chance to bid.
Which is why it would be criminal to turn in to flats -quote:It still has the bigggest best sounding room in the country.
This time tomorrow what will we see
Field full of houses
Endless rows of crowded streets
Ray Davies from Lola vs. The Powerman on the Moneygoround.
Posted on: 18 February 2010 by u5227470736789439
It still has the bigggest best sounding room in the country.
According to whom?
From the very opening of the Abbey Road complex EMI continued to use the Kingsway Hall right into the late 1970s [they first recorded there in 1928] for their most important large scale recordings, because it was a bigger Hall with a better acoustic for recording, allowing the engineers to capture a lucid balance from a symphony orchestra, even with a large chorus in addition!
I think that may tell us how much better Abbey Road was compared to all other recording venues in the country!
ATB from George
According to whom?
From the very opening of the Abbey Road complex EMI continued to use the Kingsway Hall right into the late 1970s [they first recorded there in 1928] for their most important large scale recordings, because it was a bigger Hall with a better acoustic for recording, allowing the engineers to capture a lucid balance from a symphony orchestra, even with a large chorus in addition!
I think that may tell us how much better Abbey Road was compared to all other recording venues in the country!
ATB from George