Reacting to reports that EMI has put its Abbey Road recording
studios up for sale, Britain's National Trust is asking the public
whether the studios should be saved. In a statement on its website,
the National Trust said: 'If there is enough momentum, we may
launch a campaign to save the studios.'
Selling the studios could raise tens of millions of pounds for the
debt-burdened EMI. The building in north-west London and the Abbey
Road brand itself are an iconic part of British recorded music
history. In 1931, the year the studios opened, Elgar recorded Land
of Hope and Glory in studio one with the London Symphony Orchestra.
A year later, a 16-year-old Yehudi Menuhin joined Elgar at Abbey
Road to record the composer's Violin Concerto. The Beatles brought
the studios worldwide fame, recording most of their 1960s hits
there, and naming their 1969 album Abbey Road.
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