12 amazing facts about the legendary London studios
Bing Crosby
recorded an eight-song session for Radio 2 in Maida Vale Studio 3 with The Gordon Rose Orchestra. Three days later he collapsed and died after a round of golf at La Moraleja in Spain. A plaque inside the studio commemorates the recording.James Blake and Rob Da Bank in the Maida Vale props cupboard Maida Vale Studio 6 is where many BBC Radio 4 dramas are recorded. As they still create their own sound effects, there is a huge props cupboard next-door full of weird and wonderful items such as fake doors, bicycle wheels, bells, swords, chains, telephones, crockery to be clunked or smashed and piles of unspooled magnetic tape, which when trodden on apparently replicates the sound of walking through snow.10.
There actually used to be even more celestes at Maida Vale, but one was apparently sold to the band Toploader, who used it on their 1999 hit 'Dancing in the Moonlight'.Lift up a metal cover in Maida Vale Studio 7, formerly a drama studio but now used for storage and occasional DJ broadcasts, and you can see a little river flowing beneath.
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