Hook End Recording Studios
{{Short description|Manor in Oxfordshire, England}}
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| predecessor = Space Studios SARM Hook End
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| location_city = Checkendon, Oxfordshire
| location_country = England
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Hook End Recording Studios was a recording studio located in Hook End Manor, a 16th-century Elizabethan house near Checkendon, Oxfordshire, England.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gremlinuk.com/gremlin/newgremlinsite/uk_recording_studios.htm|title=UK list of recording studios|website=Gremlinuk.com|access-date=2 September 2020}} Its previous owners include the musicians Trevor Horn and David Gilmour.
History
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The original studio, Space Studios, was built by Alvin Lee of the band Ten Years After when he first bought the house. Many recordings were made during Lee's tenure, including On the Road to Freedom (1973), before he sold the house and studio to David Gilmour of the band Pink Floyd,{{Cite Q|Q25766745}} who used the studio to record parts of the band's album The Final Cut (1983). Gilmour sold the house and studio to Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley. They sold it to Trevor Horn, who turned it into Hookend Productions Ltd.{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516151220/http://www.hookendstudio.com/ |archive-date=16 May 2013 |url=http://www.hookendstudio.com/ |title=Hookend Residential Recording Facility}}
Several major rock bands have recorded albums at the studios. These include Manic Street Preachers' Gold Against the Soul (1993), The Cure's Disintegration (1989) and Mixed Up (1990), and Marillion's Seasons End (1989) and Holidays in Eden (1991).
In or around 2009, Hook End Manor was purchased by Mark White, who reportedly still owned it as of 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://www.redsharknews.com/audio/item/4183-studio-profile-hook-end-manor|title=Studio Profile: Oxfordshire's Hook End Manor|website=Redsharknews.com|access-date=2 September 2020}} In October 2017, the house was reported to be abandoned and in a state of disrepair.{{cite web | url= https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/10/david-gilmours-abandoned-mansion-gives-danzigs-shitty-house-a-run-for-its-money/ | title= David Gilmour's abandoned mansion gives Danzig's shitty house a run for its money | work=Consequence of Sound | first=Eddie | last=Fu | date=16 October 2017 | access-date=6 December 2020}}
References
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Category:Recording studios in England
Category:Culture in Oxfordshire
Category:Former recording studios
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