April 2012

"Hi! Here is our picture from March 2012. We are from Tallahassee, Florida. Left to right this is Dave, David, Cindy and Robin"
 
"This is me crossing Abbey Road on 20th January 2012. I tried to vintage up the photo a little! Regards, Anthony Henderson, from Manchester, England"
 
As some of you may know, as part of their 80th birthday celebrations Abbey Road Studios opened their doors to the public for a few days during March this year and arranged for Brian Kehew and Kevin Ryan - authors of the critically-acclaimed book 'Recording the Beatles' - to give a number of lectures in Studio Two based on the history of the Studios. They gave a fascinating insight to the vast variety of artists who have recorded there and the changes through the decades in the ways and methods of the recording technology used. It was a great privilege to be invited to attend and I learnt many things about the Studios I had not previously known. Whilst there I met Gunter Schäfer who had been lucky enough to get one of the much sought after tickets and had flown in from Cologne for the day to attend the event. Gunter has now kindly sent me these pictures he took on the day. Above you can see the long queue of visitors waiting to get into the Studios for the event.................
 
..............and as you would have seen from the previous photo the council chose an unfortunate time to dig the road up!................
 
.............This is Gunter on the Studio Two stairway which joins the actual studio area to the control room.............
 
................and here trying out one of the pianos used - amongst many others - by The Beatles.............
 
............and finally on the steps of the Studio entrance.

It was a brilliant day and a rare and wonderful opportunity for members of the public to see inside this very magical place. Hopefully Brian and Kevin will be invited back to do some more! (JJ)

 
"Hello. I am sending you a photo from December 2011. After crossing with my friends in December 2010 ('Four Grannies In The Cold'), I came back with my cousin Catherine in December 2011. We are from France and we danced a lot to the Beatles music in our twenties. Best wishes - Claudine Aldon"
 
"We are Cathy Rich and Gregg Potter, crossing Abbey Road on April 5, 2012....three days after a sold out concert at the London Palladium for the 25th Anniversary Buddy Rich Memorial Concert!!!!"
 
"Jean Pierre et Christine from Chateauroux, France, February 2011. Merci"
 
"Hi, I am Andrew Hyunshik Choi from the U.S.A. I took this picture April 25, 2012. It was a rainy day and luckily I had 5 minutes with no rain. Thanks, Andrew"