Abbey Road Opens Its Doors

Occasionally, a performer is great enough to transcend generations.

My mom boogied to Glenn Miller. I likewise blast “In the Mood” like it was Cowgirl in the Sand.

A group that surely stands the test of time in a similar fashion is The Beatles.

Abbey Road Studios, birthplace of most of the Fab Four’s albums, announced this week that it will be opening its doors to the public for the first time in twenty years from now until April 3, holding its own film festival.

As a five-year-old kid, I watched Ed Sullivan with my parents on Sunday night. I still vividly recall the high-pitched female screams when the Beatles appeared. You could barely hear the music…

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Abbey Road Studios, created in November of 1931 by EMI in London, England, is best known as the legendary recording studio used by the rock bands Cliff Richard and the Shadows and The Beatles. The studios are located in Abbey Road, in St John’s Wood, in the City Of Westminster.

Built as a Georgian town house in 1831, the premises were acquired by The Gramophone Company in 1931 and converted into studios. The Gramophone Company later amalgamated with Columbia Records to form EMI which took over the studios. The studios were then known as EMI studios until they changed their name to Abbey Road Studios formally in the 1970s. [Encyclopedia Lockergnome]