When designer Bill Broadbent moved into his courtyard home in Chelsea 15 years ago, he had no idea of its historic significance.
“It was only when I saw coaches stopping outside my house, and Japanese and American tourists taking photographs, that the penny dropped,” says Broadbent. “I have lived around here for years, so perhaps I should have made the connection earlier.”
The connection is certain to send ageing rockers on a happy ramble down Memory Lane. From 1964 to 1976, the property in Old Church Street, south-west London, now on the market for £2.1 million, was the premises of Sound Techniques, one of the best-known independent recording studios in the country. The brainchild of Geoff Frost and John Wood, two ambitious twentysomething sound engineers, it was created on a shoestring, courtesy of a loan from Barclays and some Polish builders. But after an uncertain start, it gained an international reputation.
Over the next decade some of the biggest names in British music recorded there: Pink Floyd, the Who, Jethro Tull and Elton John. All played on the ground floor of what is now a stylish three-bedroom maisonette.
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