Friday 23 August 2013

Studios

  • Queen: 1971 sessions at the Music Centre in Wembley, London; 1972 and 1973 sessions at Trident in Soho, London.
  • Queen II: Trident in Soho, London.
  • Sheer Heart Attack: Sessions began at Rockfield in South Wales; they then went to Wessex in Highbury, London as well as AIR in Westminster, London and they finished off at Trident in Soho, London, where the album was also mixed.
  • A Night at the Opera: Rehearsals at Ridge Farm in Surrey; preliminary recordings at Rockfield in Monmouthshire; the rest was in London: Roundhouse and Scorpio in Camden, Olympic in Barnes, Lansdowne in Kensington (two blocks from Freddie's house) and Sarm in Tower Hamlets, where the record was also mixed.
  • A Day at the Races: Rehearsals at Ridge Farm in Capel, Surrey; preliminary recordings at The Manor in Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire; everything else in London: Wessex in Highbury, Advision in Westminster and Sarm in Tower Hamlets, where the record was also mixed.
  • News of the World: Sessions began at Island Studios in Notting Hill, finished at Wessex in Highbury.
  • Jazz: Began at Mountain in Montreux, Switzerland, finished at Super Bear in Berre-les-Alpes, France.
  • The Game: Musicland in Munich, West Germany.
  • Flash Gordon: Some work in progress at Musicland in Munich (The Game sessions), then Music Centre in Wembley, London; Advision in Westminster, London; The Town House in Hammersmith, London. Orchestra recorded at Anvil in Denham, Buckinghamshire.
  • Hot Space: Most of it was at Musicland in Munich; some bits at Mountain, Montreux and two studios in New York: Atlantic in Broadway and Power Station in Manhattan.
  • The Works: Began at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, finished & mixed at Musicland in Munich.
  • A Kind of Magic: Chiefly The Town House in Hammersmith, London, especially the Highlander bits; also Musicland (Munich), Mountain (Montreux) and other London venues: Abbey Road (St John's Wood), Sarm West (Notting Hill) and Maison Rouge (Fulham).
  • The Miracle: Chiefly The Town House in Hammersmith, London. Also Mountain in Montreux and Olympic in Barnes (London).
  • Innuendo: Chiefly at Metropolis in Chiswick (London). Also Mountain in Montreux and possibly Olympic and Town House in Barnes and Hammersmith (London) as well as Allerton Hill in Surrey.
  • Made in Heaven: 1980-1989 sessions at various places depending on the project they'd been working on. 1991 sessions at Mountain. 1993 at Cosford Mill, 1994-1995 at Cosford Mill, Allerton Hill and Metropolis.

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