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10 iconic UK recording studios and the immortal songs they created
There’s something magical about stepping out of the taxi and into the car park at Rockfield; it’s an indescribable feeling of both déjà vu and comfort in the midst of its rock and pop lore.
Realistically, it’s a farm in the middle of nowhere. Look to your left, and you see rolling hills and greenery. Look to your right, and it’s more of the same. The whole place looks incredibly unassuming, and yet, here is where so much of musical history has been made. Great songs, both past and present, have been recorded here, and without a space like this, the songs we listen to today simply wouldn’t be the same.
And it’s not just Rockfield that this applies to, either. All over the UK, there are recording studios dotted about in unassuming locations, holding the secrets to music’s greatest hits. In city centres, farms, down side streets, artists have gathered in different buildings for decades to put instruments to track, microphone to lips, and steadily carve their name into the history books.
The issue isn’t knowing these places exist; it’s knowing where exactly they are. So, with that in mind, here are some of the greatest studios throughout the UK and the hit songs which were recorded there.
