Recording Studios

Not where the cover was shot — where the record was made. These are the studios behind the albums in our archive, from the room that gave the Beatles their sound to the Valley studio behind Nevermind.

• Abbey Road Studios5 albums
  London, EnglandWhere the Beatles and Pink Floyd made history
• Hansa Studios3 albums
  Berlin, Germany‘Hansa by the Wall’ — where Bowie made the Berlin era
• Sound City Studios2 albums
  Van Nuys, CaliforniaThe scrappy Valley studio behind Nevermind
• Rockfield Studios2 albums
  Monmouthshire, WalesThe Welsh farm where ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ was recorded