EMI selling Abbey Road

[casey campbell]

hmmmm.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/889e63f0-1a70 ... ab49a.html

sorry if this has been mentioned before....didn't see it though.

[iamthecosmos]

"might be expected to raise more than ?10m"

So that suggests between ?10-20m? Surely there are plenty of the old-fashioned rock stars who can cobble that kind of money together.

If I was the lucky sod who just won ?56m on the Euromillions lottery I'd be sending half to EMI right now.

[MoreSpaceEcho]

*calls accountant*

"leo! how much money do we have? i wanna buy abbey road!"

"uh...mr space echo, you have precisely $24.56 on hand. minus my 10% that leaves you with just over 22 dollars."

*buys a cup of coffee and waves a twenty at guy hands*

[mscottweber]

Abbey Road is still prized as one of the few venues able to accommodate entire orchestras, which has allowed producers to record scores there for films such as Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter and the Philosopher?s Stone.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone, eh? I never saw that one...

[JGriffin]

Abbey Road is still prized as one of the few venues able to accommodate entire orchestras, which has allowed producers to record scores there for films such as Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter and the Philosopher?s Stone.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone, eh? I never saw that one...

Did you see "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?" Same movie. Both the book and the film were called "Philosopher's Stone" in the UK. The title was dumbed down for American audiences.

[Jay Reynolds]

Did you see "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?" Same movie. Both the book and the film were called "Philosopher's Stone" in the UK. The title was dumbed down for American audiences.

Or they saw that we have a healthy crop of crack-pot religions over here and decided that we didn't need to be exposed to Alchemy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher%27s_stone

I mean, if you check out what Alchemy did to Sir Isaac Newton--who was arguably one of the smartest people to have walked the earth--there's no way they could risk exposing people like John Travolta and Jenni McCarthy to it.

[mscottweber]

Ha ha, well that sure does make me sound like a dumb American.

I had a feeling it was something like that, obviously I knew the article was referring to the Sorcerer's Stone.

Yeah, the books got enough flack from the super-religious community for simply being about sorcery, period. I knew a lot of parents that didn't want their kids to read them at all...

[cgarges]

It had to happen sooner or later. There's nothing in that area but high-rent residential. EMI's been making noises about it for a while. Bummer. It's a beautiful place.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

[mrclean]

I just hope that it won't be bought by some wealthy individual or corporation and turned into a "Beatles Museum" or something like that...

I hope it remains a recording studio...at least long enough for me to record there someday! :D

[drumsound]

Group buy?

[cgarges]

Group buy?

http://messageboard.tapeop.com/viewtopic.php?t=69606

[Gentleman Jim]

http://messageboard.tapeop.com/viewtopic.php?t=69619

[cgarges]

That's funny. I almost did that, but I like your angle better.

CG

[drumsound]

Screw it, I'm buying it myself. Then I'm having Hillary put one of those banners at the top of the page: Abbey Road Studio 15% discount for TOMB Members

[Jitters]

I just hope that it won't be bought by some wealthy individual or corporation and turned into a "Beatles Museum" or something like that...

I hope it remains a recording studio...at least long enough for me to record there someday!

Sadly I think 'museum' is the best case scenario. My money is on condos.