The Abbey Road Studios EMI TG12345 MK IV console used to record works
from other pop and rock greats such as Paul McCartney and Wings, George
Harrison, Ringo Starr and Kate Bush. It remains in full working order
and is accompanied by a letter of provenance from former Abbey Road
studio manager Ken Townsend. In its time at Abbey Road the console was also used to record
Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon is going up for auction in New York later this month.
Described as “the greatest console ever constructed” by ex-Abbey Road
technician Brian Gibson, the MK IV was utilised by Pink Floyd and
producer Alan Parsons during the making of the band’s landmark 1973
album, which stayed in the charts for 741 weeks and was recently voted
the Number One Rock Album of All Time by Rolling Stone.
Due to be sold as part of Bonham’s ‘TCM Presents…Rock and Roll
Through the Lens’ event on 27 March, the desk was housed in the
facility’s iconic Studio Two between 1971 and 1983, commissioned as an
update for the MK II model and one of only two consoles custom-made by
EMI engineers for Abbey Road.
It is estimated to sell for ‘a significant six-figure sum’, and will
be on view at Bonhams Knightbridge in London from 19 March until the
date of the auction.
source:audiomediainternational
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