Townhouse Studios
The Townhouse Studios (officially: The Town House ) was a recording studio in West London . Founded by Richard Branson in 1978 and managed by Barbara Jeffries, it was part of the Virgin Records studio group. When Branson sold Virgin Records to the music publisher EMI in 1992 , the Virgin Studios Group was also taken over by EMI. In 2002, the Sanctuary Group acquired Townhouse Studios. Town House sound engineer, producer and instructor Al Stone ran the studio from 2006 until it closed in 2008 after Universal bought Sanctuary. There were three recording rooms in the building (numbers 1, 2 and 4). Number 3 formed the Rampart recording studios of the band The Who .
Ever since producer and sound engineer Hugh Padgham recorded the drums for Phil Collins ' piece " In the Air Tonight " in Studio 2 , this studio, also known as the "Stone Room", has become a particularly popular place for recording drums.
Townhouse Studios has worked closely with Solid State Logic since its inception and was the first recording studio in the UK to use a B-series mixer from the company. The thousandth mixer produced by SSL was also set up in Studio 1. The SSL B mixer still exists.
Artists who worked at the townhouse included Elton John , Queen , Phil Collins , The Jam , Asia , Bryan Ferry , Coldplay , Muse , Duran Duran , Jamiroquai , Kylie Minogue , Oasis , XTC, and Robbie Williams . Others were Björk , Blur , Bob Dylan , Frank Zappa , Jennifer Lopez , Placebo , Sex Pistols and Peter Gabriel .
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- ↑ SSL history ( memento of the original from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at VinylCarvers.
- ↑ Fred Bronson The Billboard book of number one hits p.860. Billboard Books , 1997
- ↑ liner notes: Setting Sons Lp, Polydor records PD-1-6249, 1979
