Friday, February 19, 2010
It is incredible to me that Abbey Road Studios is endangered. Just about the most moving experience I have ever had as a tourist came when I visited Sun Studio in Memphis-- Abbey Road is one of the very few places that would inspire similar awe. (I'd like to see Electric Lady Studios too. And Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs.) The funny thing about Sun was that it was kind of preserved by neglect. Sam Phillips built it (from plans he found in an issue of Popular Mechanics) in a corner of town where there wasn't a great deal of development activity, and it survived more or less intact because nobody could be bothered with it. That isn't going to happen with Abbey Road, but someone should step in before it is lost. I'd be hard pressed to think of a post WWII site in England with greater cultural importance.
// posted by Bill @ 7:49 AM 
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