A piece of The Beatles’ history has gone on sale after being buried in a skip for decades and it’s now worth over £2,000,000.
The one-of-a-kind recording equipment used to create the album Abbey Road has been restored 55 years after the record was originally released.
The irreplaceable custom-built EMI TG12345 console used to create this landmark record has finally been restored.
The TG12345 allowed the Beatles to use eight-track recording for the first time, as opposed to four-track, giving the album a softer sound overall.
Not only was it used for Abbey Road but the EMI console was also used for Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, which was recorded at the studio just four years later.
The prototype console was donated to a school and eventually discarded.
It was fished out of the skip by an engineer, who took it home as spare parts – unaware that he had just saved this legacy equipment.
Four years ago, after sitting disassembled for five decades, the original pieces were reunited with the frame and a painstaking restoration began.
The repair was done under the guidance of Beatles collaborator and former EMI engineer Brian Gibson, who died in August 2024.
Now, the piece of music history will be auctioned off by music site Reverb with a whopping £2,250,000 starting price tag.
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