Olympic Studios Wikipedia. An exterior view of the Olympic Studios in Barnes, London, taken in 2. Olympic Studios is an early 2. Barnes, London, which, after four years of closure, re opened on 1. October 2. 01. 3 as the new home for the Olympic Studios cinema. As well as a two screen cinema, the building includes a caf and dining room, a members club and a recording studio. The building at 1. Church Road in Barnes was constructed in 1. Byfeld Hall, a theatre for the Barnes Repertory Company, and was a cinema for much of the first half of the century, before becoming a television studio in the late 1. In 1. 96. 5 it was purchased by Olympic Sound Studios and became a renowned independent commercial recording studio, best known for the many legendary rock and pop recordings made there from the late 1. It has been described as the go to studio for many of rock and pops leading lights in the music industrys golden era, from the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix to Led Zeppelin and The Beatles,2 and as being of the same importance as Abbey Road Studios. The studios sound mixing desks eventually became famous in their own right, and were later manufactured commercially. The conversion from film to recording studio was undertaken by architect Robertson Grant and the acoustics completed by Keith Grant and Russel Pettinger. The studios won Music Week magazines award for best recording studio five times. After forty years and a succession of owners, the studios earlier facilities were closed by the EMI and Virgin Group in 2. However, Olympic has now been converted into an independent local cinema incorporating reminders of its own history, including a new studio designed with the help of original members of the studios staff. In keeping with its audio history, Olympics cinema is now also the only one in London employing a new form of state of the art Flare Audio cinema sound. Early dayseditAfter its earliest days, the building became a theatre briefly again in the 1. John Gielgud and Claude Rains. Between the 1. In its first decade it was notable for being one of the venues associated with the bioscope, an early form of cinema combined with music hall and large instrumentation. In the 1. History of Olympic StudioseditThe first home of Olympic Sound Studios was in central London in the late 1. It was owned by Angus Mc. Kenzie, who had purchased Larry Lyonss Olympia Studio in Fulham. Mc. Kenzie then took a lease on a derelict synagogue building at Carlton Street, off Baker Street in Londons West End. In conjunction with Richard Swettenham, Mc. Kenzie opened Olympics Studio One with a tube recording console from Olympia Studio. The studio first came to prominence in 1. John Timperley, who was responsible for a large number of recordings which made the top ten in the Melody Maker ratings. In 1. 96. 2 Terry Allen joined the company as an electronic engineer, assisting Dick Swettenham with his new transistorised sound desk. John Timperleys assistant was Roger Savage, who quickly gained a reputation as a particularly good sound balancer. Terry Allen soon became studio manager and was instructed by Angus Mc. Kenzie to dismiss Timperley late in 1. Keith Grant had worked at Olympic on a casual basis for some time, and was offered the position of senior sound engineer late in 1. Spellforce 2 Gold Edition Torrent Download. Dick Swettenham designed the first professional transistorised desk in the world, which was installed into Studio One during 1. Four track tape recorder in England. Apart from Roger Savage, several other young staff gained their start at Olympic. Gus Dudgeon began as a tape operator and when he left Olympic became associated with Elton John, as his producer. Another successful employee was Michael Ross Trevor, who eventually joined CBS Records, at the start of a long career in classical music recording. Studio One was used by many influential British groups including The Yardbirds, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Alexis Korner and Graham Bond. The Rolling Stones1. Come On at Olympic a number of Dusty Springfield hits and The Troggs successful single Wild Thing were also the result of recording sessions at Olympic during the forty year history of the studio. Olympic was a popular studio with Decca, EMI, Pye and Philips recording A R staff, as well as hosting London Weekend Televisions music recordings. After being notified in 1. Carlton Street premises would not be renewed, in 1. Mc. Kenzie sold his share of the business to Cliff Adams and John Shakespeare. They then moved it to new premises in Barnes, with the guidance of Grant, when the lease ran out in 1. Keith Grant oversaw the development of the new studios, bringing in his father Robertson Grant, an architect, to assist. Engineer Eddie Kramer recalled Olympic Studios in 1. We were very innovative and of course we had, I think, the best console in England and possibly the world at the time. We were ahead in terms of design. The Rolling Stones were among the first clients of the new Olympic Studios in Barnes, consecutively recording six of their albums there between 1. The Beatles worked at the studio to record the original tracks of All You Need Is Love,1. Baby, Youre a Rich Man. Jimi Hendrix recorded for his Are You Experienced album at Olympic, and of his Axis Bold as Love and Electric Ladyland albums, all of the former and a substantial part of the latter were recorded at the studio. The Who recorded their albums Whos Next and Who Are You. It was used extensively by Led Zeppelin, who recorded tracks there for all of their studio albums up to and including Physical Graffiti in 1. In the same year Queen used the studio for their album A Night at the Opera while David Bowie also used the studio. The studio also saw the production of great numbers of other landmark albums and singles, including by The Small Faces, Traffic, Blind Faith, Hawkwind, The Moody Blues, Deep Purple, and Procol Harums A Whiter Shade of Pale. Kilauea Mount Etna Mount Yasur Mount Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira Piton de la Fournaise Erta Ale. B5JiRPKxQBA/UQM4zQ4L44I/AAAAAAAAHkc/H79dkusMkSI/s1600/Capa+-+The+Alchemy+Index+Vols.+I+&+II.jpg' alt='The Offspring Discography Zip' title='The Offspring Discography Zip' />In 1. Grant again commissioned his father, this time to re design Studio Two, as the now working and unexpectedly popular studio was causing problems with sound transmission to Studio One. Studio One, for example, might be recording classical music by Elgar while Studio Two would be hosting sessions with the Rolling Stones. Robertson Grant successfully innovated a completely floating space, weighing seventeen tons, which was supported by rubber pads. KreatorAlbumsRanked.jpg' alt='The Offspring Discography Zip' title='The Offspring Discography Zip' />The dcor and furnishing of the new Studio Two was designed by Mick Jagger. Later on, Grant added probably the first instant acoustic change, using rough sawn wooden slats which could cover or reveal sound absorbing panels behind them and thus change the acoustics. Torrentz domain names are for sale. Send an offer to contactinventoris. This made the room suitable for the recording of both rock and orchestral music at the pull of a cord. By the turn of the 1. Jesus Christ Superstar were being recorded at Olympic. The studio produced film music for, among others, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1. The Italian Job 1. Jesus Christ Superstar 1. Welcome back to MidWeek Meditations, Lifehackers weekly dip into the pool of stoic wisdom, and how you can use its waters to reflect on and improve your life. Lists music heard on the CBS drama series Cold Case starring Kathryn Morris. JR1 diskunion PUNKHARDCORECD. The Rocky Horror Picture Show, recorded in Studio Two in 1. Life of Brian in 1. Olympics sound mixing desks were a creation of the maintenance staff and built specially for the studios. They became famous as Olympic desks1. Dick Swettenham, Keith Grant and later Jim Mc. Bride in conjunction with Jim Dowler. Swettenham later started to manufacture the consoles commercially as Helios desks. The first desk of this type was commissioned by Grant as Helios One for Studio Two.