Abbey Road Studios—the famous London music complex where the Beatles recorded the majority of their music—will not be sold, according to a statement issued Sunday by owner EMI. This announcement comes in the wake of a public outcry that followed reports that the cash-strapped EMI would put Abbey Road up for sale to relieve debt. (In addition to save-Abbey-Road campaigns on Facebook and Twitter, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber publicly expressed interest in purchasing the studio.) In today’s statement, though, the company did say that it is “holding preliminary discussions for the revitalisation of Abbey Road with interested and appropriate third parties.” EMI also noted that it turned down an offer last year to buy the studio “in excess of £30m (roughly $46 million) but this was rejected because we believe that Abbey Road should remain in EMI’s ownership.” In addition to the Beatles, which named their 1969 album Abbey Road, artists such as Radiohead and Pink Floyd have recorded at the studio, which began operation in 1931.
Feb 21
2010
08:05 PM ET
EMI says Abbey Road Studios not for sale
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I’m pretty sure that before The Beatles named their album Abbey Road, Abbey Road studios was called EMI studios, then in honor of the album they changed the name…
Ha, take that Andrew Lloyd Webber, you douche!
@senyorj- No it was always called abbey road studios, even before the album (at least it was called that the entire time the beatles recorded there, it could have been different before)