“The only truth is music.”
Jack Kerouac.
LEGACY+ART are delighted to present “The Art of Recording” Collection, many prints of which are made in conjunction with the legendary Abbey Road Studios and the CH Vintage Audio archive. This collection features limited edition, fine art prints of original artefacts that were literally instrumental in the creation of many of the most iconic recording sessions ever made.
This collection includes instruments and recording equipment, hand written lyrics and master tapes of an astonishing array of the greatest recording artists to have ever walked up to a microphone; from The Beatles and Pink Floyd, to Amy Winehouse and David Bowie, and so very many others.
Each final artwork is a composite of up to several hundred individual photographic frames, exquisitely brought together to bring you hyper detailed, large format, photographs that evoke every song sung and bring all those precious memories out of the past and into the present.
These fine art prints are the ultimate artworks that allow you to live with your passions and your heroes, to beautifully compliment your home or recording studio; this stunning body of work is truly unique.
Every mark, every note, every song; the soundtrack to our lives.
Master tape and microphone prints from Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here”, in a collector’s home.
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John Lennon: His signature glasses.
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“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.”
John Lennon.
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Master tape for Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, A side.
Over 32 millions albums sold.
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“Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.”
Lennon & McCartney.
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Master tape for Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, B side.
It spent 23 consecutive weeks at No. 1 in the UK.
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“I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh.”
Lennon & McCartney.
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The legendary Mrs. Mills Piano from Studio 2 in Abbey Road Studios, most famously used on “Penny Lane”, “Lady Madonna” and “With a Little Help from my Friends”.
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“In Penny Lane, there is a barber showing photographs
Of every head he's had the pleasure to know
And all the people that come and go
Stop and say hello.”
Lennon & McCartney.
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The original bass drum from the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, hand painted by Joe Ephgrave, designed by Sir Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, photographed for the album by Michael Cooper.
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“It's wonderful to be here.
It's certainly a thrill.
You're such a lovely audience,
We'd like to take you home with us.
We'd love to take you home.”
Lennon & McCartney.
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Abbey Road Studios’ receptionist’s diary from 1968, featuring many iconic recording sessions, including some truly incredible days where an astonishing array of legendary musicians shared the building.
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"I defy anyone to go into that studio and not be affected by its history and the people that have been there before."
Mike McCartney.
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Original Session Sheet for Pink Floyd’s 1972 recording session for “Dark Side of the Moon”, engineered by Alan Parsons.
Over 45 million albums sold.
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“Us, and them
And after all, we're only ordinary men
Me, and you
God only knows it's not what we would choose to do.”
Roger Waters.
The Master tape of “Dark Side of the Moon” from the EMI Archive.
Over 45 million albums sold.
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“Long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.”
Roger Waters.
The Master tape of “Dark Side of the Moon” from the EMI Archive.
Over 45 million albums sold.
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“Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for soemone or something to show you the way.”
Roger Waters.
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The Studio 2 Challen piano from Abbey Road Studios, often referred to as “the jangle box”, was most famously used on “The Fool on the Hill”, “A Day in the Life” and “Paperback Writer”.
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“Day after day, alone on a hill,
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still.
But nobody wants to know him,
They can see that he's just a fool.”
Lennon & McCartney.
Original receipt for the first time The Beatles recorded any music in what was to become Abbey Road Studios; organised by Brian Epstein as an audition for George Martin.
Note: “4 men @ £7”.
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“I’ve seen a lot of groups come in for artists test, but this one – there is something special about them. I can’t tell you what, but there is something there.”
Norman Smith to George Martin.
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John Lennon’s first guitar amp, a Vox AC15 Twin, used at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, Hamburg and on their first album “Please, Please Me”, in what was to become Abbey Road Studios.
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“I was born in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg.”
John Lennon.
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The BTR 3 stereo recorder from Abbey Road Studios, most famously used for the recordings of The Beatles albums “Please, Please Me” and “With the Beatles”, with the recording engineer Norman “Hurricane” Smith having the majority of the instruments on one track and the vocals on the other.
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The Hammond RT-3 Organ at Abbey Road Studios, played by Paul McCartney on nearly every Beatles album, and most notably by Billy Preston on “I Want You, (She’s So Heavy)” and “Something”, as well as on “Dark Side of the Moon” played by Richard Wright.
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“I want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me…”
Lennon & McCartney.
Mrs. Mills’ Piano and Hammond RET-3 Organ from Studio 2 in Abbey Road Studios.
Every mark, every note, every song.
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Original receipt for the orchestral session for “Hey Jude”, 1968 at Trident Studios.
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“And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain,
Don't carry the world upon your shoulders.
For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder.”
Lennon & McCartney.
“Sgt. Pepper’s” Master tape and “Ziggy Stardust” Moog synthesizer in gallery show.
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David Bowie: Moog minimoog synthesiser, used by Bowie as Ziggy Stardust with the Spiders from Mars, on tour in 1972-73.
From the CH Vintage Audio Archive.
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“For here, am I sitting in a tin can
Far, above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do.”
David Bowie.
The Master tape of “Wish You Were Here” from the EMI Archive.
The album was an immediate commercial success, hitting #1 on both the US Billboard 200 and UK Albums Chart upon release and was certified gold in the UK and US within months of its September 12, 1975 release.
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“So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell?
Blue skies from pain?”
Roger Waters.
The Master tape of “Wish You Were Here” from the EMI Archive.
Over 23 million albums sold.
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“How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl
Year after year.”
Roger Waters.
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Neil Young’s Altec Lansing Mixer Control console, model 1214, with his hand-written tape markings "Guitar, Stringman, Volume, Treble, Bass." Neil Young noted that the mixer was used for the guitar P.A. on “Rust Never Sleeps”, 1978-’79.
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“Old man, look at my life
I'm a lot like you were.”
Neil Young.
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The Schiedmayer Celesta at Abbey Road Studios, famous for the haunting introduction to “Time”, from Pink Floyd’s legendary “The Dark Side of the Moon”, this very keyboard was also used on “Baby It's You” and “Goodnight” by The Beatles. The iconic opening bars of '“Hedwig’s Theme” from Harry Potter were also recorded in Studio One on the “Celeste” as it’s known.
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“Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.”
Roger Waters.
Folk art clock created by Chris Giffin, bought by George & Olivia Harrison in Providence, Rhode Island in 1997. A Legacy + Art print of the clock was used on the last Beatles single, “Now and Then”, in 2023.
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“I know it's true
It's all because of you
And if I make it through
It's all because of you.”
John Lennon.
The Doors: Lyrics to “L.A. Woman, hand written by Jim Morrison, signed by all the band members, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, Jon Densmore and Jim Morrison,
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“There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.”
Jim Morrison.
Sir Paul McCartney’s Hofner Bass Guitar and the Neumann KM 54 microphone that he used on the first live world wide broadcast, from Abbey Road Studios, singing “All You Need is Love” on June the 26th, 1967.
Every mark, every note, every song.
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The iconic Neumann KM 54 microphone, used by Paul McCartney on the first live world wide broadcast, from Abbey Road Studios, singing “All You Need is Love” on June the 26th, 1967.
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“There's nothing you can do that can't be done
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung
Nothing you can say, but you can learn
How to play the game
It's easy.”
Lennon and McCartney.
David Bowie: The iconic AKG D 1000C gold microphone, used by Bowie as Ziggy Stardust on tour in 1972-73, with both Bowie and Ground Control scratched into it.
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“Now, Ziggy really sang
Screwed-up eyes and screwed-down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan
He could lick them by smiling
He could leave them to hang
Came on so loaded, man
Well-hung and snow-white tan.”
David Bowie.
Serge Gainbourg: The Neumann U 48 microphone, used to record “Je T’aime” and “Bonnie and Clyde”, both with Bridget Bardot, in 1968.
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“Je t'aime, je t'aime
Oh oui, je t'aime
Moi non plus
Oh, mon amour.”
Serge Gainsbourg.
This AKG D30 is one of two that originally came to Abbey Road Studios from Olympic Studios, with the provenance of having been used on almost everything recorded there by both Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, as well as by John Bonham on the Led Zeppelin track “Whole Lotta Love”.
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“Good times, bad times, you know I've had my share
When my woman left home for a brown-eyed man
But I still don't seem to care.”
Page, Jones and Bonham.
The astonishing Neumann U48 microphone, used by John Lennon on so many iconic recordings, with the spit shield specifically designed for him to protect the gold diaphragm.
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“Love is all you need.”
John Lennon.
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Microphones from Abbey Road Studios, each used on iconic recording sessions, hanging in a collector’s music room.
Every mark, every note, every song.
Live with your passion.
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