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  Abbey Road Studios - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abbey Road Studios, created in November of 1931 by EMI in London, is best known as the legendary recording studio used by the rock bands The Beatles, Cliff Richard, Pink Floyd, The OBViOUS, and The Shadows.
Abbey Road Studios is most closely associated with The Beatles, who recorded almost all of their albums and singles there between 1962 and 1970.
The Beatles named their 1969 album, Abbey Road, after the street where the studio is located (the recording studio, formely called EMI Studios, would only be named Abbey Road after the Beatles record in 1970).
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 Abbey Road (street) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abbey Road is a throroughfare located in the borough of Camden and the City Of Westminster in London.
Although there are many other roads of this name, including over 20 in London alone, the Abbey Road best known to most people is the road running roughly northwest to southeast through the affluent north London suburb of St.
The north-western end of Abbey Road, NW8, begins at the intersection of Quex Road and West End Lane; it continues south-east for several kilometres, crossing Belsize Road, Boundary Road, Blenheim Terrace and Marlborough Place, ending at the intersection of Grove End Road and Garden Road.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abbey_Road_(street)   (274 words)

  
 Abbey Road (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abbey Road was the twelfth album released by the Beatles, although it was the last to be recorded.
Abbey Road was the only Beatles album exclusively recorded on an 8 track Studer reel to reel, as opposed to 4 track.
In 1997 Abbey Road was named the 12th greatest album of all time in a 'Music of the Millennium' poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM; it received the same ranking in a 1998 poll of Q magazine readers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abbey_Road_(album)   (2233 words)

  
 Beatles - Abbey Road   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
ABBEY ROAD, recorded in the summer of 1969, was the last album recorded by the Beatles (LET IT BE was released in 1970, but recorded in early '69).
Considering the deep fissures in the band, Abbey Road is an achievement of Himalayan proportions.
The highlight of Abbey Road, for me, has to be the 16-minute medley that, back in the days when there were albums with two sides, closed out side two.
www.xs4all.nl /~fsgroen/Albums-B/Beatles_Abbey_Road.htm   (2419 words)

  
 Abbey Road Studios
Abbey Road Studios, at 3 Abbey Road, London NW8, is where most of the Beatles' recordings took place between 1962 and 1969.
In fact, in the life of rock and roll, Abbey Road Studios might be considered an ancient (although fully functional) monument.
The Beatles' history at the studios began 6 June, 1962; they arrived at Abbey Road in an old white van, wearing fl leather jackets and unloaded their battered equipment, including unpainted wooden amplifiers, which left much to be desired in the eyes and ears of the recording technicians.
www.britainexpress.com /London/abbey-road.htm   (988 words)

  
 Abbey Road Studios
Abbey Road Studios consists of three main recording studios and one smaller studio.  Each of these studios has its own kind of history, Number Two is known for The Beatles.  It is here that The Beatles recorded virtually everything from their first songs (Please Please Me) to their final album, Abbey Road.
In addition to great recording facilities and history, Abbey Road is also one of the cheapest places to eat in London.  Of course, you have to be a client to get inside the place, which isn't cheap.  Anyway, here's a shot of the restaurant and bar, late at night when everyone left already.
Adjacent to the restaurant is a little private garden.  This is a clock that was gifted to Abbey Road Studios.  The head of EMI used to live in the house next door and placed it in the garden so he could see what time it was when he was out on his balcony.
www.symonjerycho.com /Travelogues/020701/020701.htm   (1006 words)

  
 Abbey Road Studios: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Abbey road is a throroughfare located in the borough of camden and the city of westminster city of westminster in london....
The studios were then known as EMI studios until they changed their name to Abbey Road Studios formally in the 1970s[For more info, click on this link].
A film score is the background music in a film, generally specially written for the film and often used to heighten emotions provoked by the imagery on...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ab/abbey_road_studios.htm   (4103 words)

  
 CSIndy: Abbey's Road (April 13 - April 19, 2000)
Tackling the entire Abbey Collection, 30 boxes of papers spanning 12 feet and nearly 50 years of constant writing, journaling, essaying, sketching, and screeing at editors with his letters, is too big a task for one week.
Abbey had always been a dependable guide, getting me out into the white stuff before it was peppered with fl dots of development, contained in a grid of access routes.
Doug Peacock, the basis for Hayduke, was among the close friends and family who sat by Abbey's side as he lay dying at home, refusing the indignity of a hospital room and even having his wife and friends whisk him out to the desert to die in what proved to be a false alarm.
www.csindy.com /csindy/2000-04-13/cover.html   (2815 words)

  
 Abbey Road   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The EMI Studios at 3 Abbey Road in the peaceful and affluent St. John's Wood district were the setting for nearly all of the Beatles' recordings from 1962 to 1970.
The studios were officially renamed "Abbey Road" in the wake of the international fame bestowed on the building by the Beatles and by the 1969 album which paid homage to their recording home.
The EMI Studios at Abbey Road had a long and illustrious history before the Beatles and have remained a busy working studio in the three decades since.
www.music.indiana.edu /som/courses/rock/abbey.html   (276 words)

  
 Abbey Road Story
Interviewed for the documentary, The Abbey Road Story, which was broadcast on Sunday January 4th, 1998 at 10:55pm on ITV (Independent Television) in the UK, Roger told of the story that the studio had played in the history of Pink Floyd.
During the 60s, Abbey Road recorded a continuous string of famous hits for the Beatles as well as such artists as Cilla Black, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy J Kramer, Manfred Mann, The Seekers and The Hollies.
Abbey Road is home to one of the largest collections of microphones - both vintage and new - in the world.
www.rogerwaters.org /abrdstory.html   (1685 words)

  
 BBC - 6 Music - Abbey Road "illegal" gig
Westminster sought legal advice when a former adviser on the Licensing Act, discovered that Abbey Road doesn't have a licence for live entertainment despite assurances to the BBC that it had fulfilled all its legal requirements.
She said local authorities and premises are still learning to live with the effects of the new Licensing laws, adding the council will be working closely with the Abbey Road to ensure they are fully licensed in the future.
A statement from the BBC said: "The recording of Coldplay at Abbey Road on 13 February 2006 for BBC Radio 2 Live and Exclusive was a private event.
www.bbc.co.uk /6music/news/20060228_abbeyrd.shtml   (607 words)

  
 Beatles, Abbey Road Album Review
With Abbey Road he came up with the song 'Something' which would be rated as highly as anything the Beatles had done.
Abbey Road was one of the first albums to feature the Moog synthesizer.
The Abbey Road album cover is simple yet one of the most famous in the history of rock.
www.apex.net.au /~bill/beatles.html   (750 words)

  
 AlterNet: Edward Abbey's Road
But Abbey was also an eloquent prose stylist whose literary celebration of the wildernesses and wastelands of the Southwest, where he lived for 42 of his 62 years, remains unmatched.
Abbey was a tireless defender of wilderness, but he was also confident that the human flair for destruction would ultimately pale beside wind, water and time.
Abbey was that rare romantic idealist who was also supremely practical, in part because he refused to waste time on what he called the "misty empires of obsolete mythology" (i.e.
www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=13114   (2027 words)

  
 Abbey's Road
Abbey was dying to get a closer look, but they are supposed to be pretty mean so I didn't dare let her.
I tried to take Abbey for a walk around the lodge, but just as we got up to the lodge we heard thunder and that was enough for her.
The road in or out of town is pretty windy and steep so just about everyone in town has a great view and there’s not a flat lot around.
mac.fiveforks.com /ed   (3960 words)

  
 Abbey Road
Although Abbey Road was really the last album to be recorded by The Beatles, chronologically, back in the sixties the fans had to wait a little longer to get Let It Be.
The album title, of course, refers to the Emi Studios in Abbey Road where The Beatles recorded almost all their songs.
Abbey Road has quite a lot of traffic and only 6 shots were made.
www.upv.es /~ecabrera/abbey.html   (3042 words)

  
 Abbey Road Studios
Abbey Road Studios is quite simply the most famous recording studio in the world.
Abbey Road today, is probably the most technically advanced recording & mixing, stereo and surround mastering & remastering, interactive design & digital video complex in the World.
Abbey Road and Chandler Limited announce the creation of the first EMI TG compressor/limiter plug-in; a digital edition of an analogue classic
www.abbeyroad.co.uk   (132 words)

  
 Abbey Road Crosswalk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Abbey Road Studios is the building in the center of this photo.
My first thought upon seeing the infamous Abbey Road crossing was that the road seemed much more narrow than I expected.
There is a monument in the center of this intersection, most people stand at the edge of the monument and shoot their photos.
www.spookshows.com /beatles/cross/crossing.htm   (316 words)

  
 Oh Look Out! Part 11, Yellow Submarine - Music History
Abbey Road was released in the United Kingdom on September 26, 1969, and in the United States on October 1, that same year.
In an attempt to restore their magic, Abbey Road was a compromise album, whereby John picked the songs he preferred for side A (on the original vinyl) and Paul chose the songs for side B, which both he and producer George Martin liked.
Abbey Road is a absolute testament and proof that their art can be achieved, even when it appeared it was forced out of them, regardless of their personal problems with each other.
www.iamthebeatles.com /article1029.html   (4549 words)

  
 Google Sightseeing » Post Archive » Abbey Road   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is the Abbey Road zebra crossing, just outside Abbey Road studios, where the iconic Beatles cover for their album ‘Abbey Road’ was shot.
Abbey Road was the final album recorded by the Beatles, and the cover photograph has since become one of the most famous and imitated album covers in recording history.
Unfortunately the zebra crossing on Abbey road has moved about 20 metres down the road since the Beatles photo so this crossing although on Abbey Road isn’t where the Beetles crossed.
googlesightseeing.com /2006/03/16/abbey-road   (448 words)

  
 Sonic / About / Press / Abbey Road Interactive Joins Sonic High Definition Authoring Alliance
Abbey Road has been at the heart of the UK music industry for more than 70 years.
Today, Abbey Road Studios is the most technically advanced recording and mixing, film scoring, post-production audio and video complex in the world.
Abbey Road Interactive, the interactive design and digital video studio launched in February 1996, is at the forefront of DVD, Enhanced CD and website development for the entertainment industry.
www.sonic.com /about/press/news/2006/03/cebit_abbeyroad.aspx   (590 words)

  
 Abbey Road (street)
Although there are many other roads of this name, including over 20 in London alone, the Abbey Road best known to most people is the road running roughly north-west to south-east through the affluent north London
Abbey Road Studios are located at the north-western end, at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, because The Beatles and many other famous
Abbey Road album is set on the street.
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 Abbey Road Studios Tour
In 1983, for the first and only time, the doors to Abbey Road’s famous studio were opened to the public, for a tour and audio-video presentation.
EMI said at the time that this was the first time that the public was invited into Abbey Road Studios, AND that it would be the last time, never to happen again.
Upon their return to the U.S., a cover was designed and in early 1984 the recording was issued as a double album gatefold set, The Beatles Live at Abbey Road Studios (ARS 2 9083).
www.rarebeatles.com /abbeyrd/abbey.htm   (860 words)

  
 Abbey Road - I Buried Paul - Turn Me On, Dead Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The cover photo of Abbey Road is perhaps the start of the "Paul is dead" rumor, as it is said to be a funeral procession.
Behind the Beatles on the left side of the street is a Volkswagen Beetle with a license plate reading "28IF", suggesting the Paul would have been 28 if he were still alive.
On the right side of the road is a police van, a reference to the police who kept quiet about Paul's death.
www.turnmeondeadman.net /IBP/AbbeyRoad.html   (432 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Abbey Road: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As a (young) 52 year-old who grew up with the fab 4 I think it's great, just great, that reading the reviews here about Abbey Road (and the other Beatles albums) that their musical legacy is obviously appreciated by young music fans who weren't even born when the band split.
Abbey Road has it all, great classic tracks and superb production from George Martin (the 5th Beatle!)Buy it, listen and enjoy.
Abbey Road is yet another masterpiece by music's finest.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002UB3   (1375 words)

  
 Abbey Road Globe Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
SOMERVILLE - The MC, T Max, wearing top coat and tails and waving a cane, took the stage at the onset of Boston Rock Opera's rendition of the Beatles' ''Abbey Road'' Thursday at Lilli's and proclaimed: ''Mikey Dee is in the house!'' Indeed, he was.
''Abbey Road,'' which the troupe rehearsed seven times, was done without theatrical fanfare.
''Abbey Road'' was the Beatles' final studio album and it presented the group in all its diversity.
www.rockopera.com /bro/shows/abbeyroad/arglobervu.html   (373 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Abbey's Road: Books: Edward Abbey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
If you're new to Abbey's work, Abbey's Road is not the best place to start; have a look at The Best of Edward Abbey or The Serpents of Paradise, two sturdy, career-spanning collections.
This is an entertaining firsthand account of Abbey's adventures as he travels through some of the most remote and beautiful locales in the world.
Abbey makes clear that though Australia is his kind of place he is obliged to return to his mother country.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0452265649?v=glance   (1567 words)

  
 LondonTown.com | Abbey Road Guide | Abbey Road London, NW8, England, UK | London Streets by Street | London hotel and ...
The nearest underground station to Abbey Road is 'Kilburn Park ' which is about 12 minutes to the South West.
Previously The Salt House, The Abbey Road is an established gastropub in the heart of Beatles territory.
Finchley Road tube, Finchley Road, (19 mins to the North East)
www.londontown.com /LondonStreets/abbey_road_10b.html   (221 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Abbey Road: Music: The Beatles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Though The Beatles were on their way out with "Abbey Road," the 7 minute plus song "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" is reminiscent of another British band on their way IN in 1969, none other than Led Zeppelin.
As the music on "Abbey Road" mutates from one moment to the next, sometimes in the space of just one song, the lustrous sounds and sky-high choruses mix perfectly with the weightless lyrics, which sometimes refer to strange events or people, or just as easily, sound hazy and dreamy, in their own spacey world.
While that album remains a stunning example of the summer of love, the true trinity of the Beatles oeuvre are Rubber Soul, Revolver and Abbey Road--with the nod going to Abbey Road as the Beatles final studio album.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002UB3?v=glance   (1929 words)

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