DE LANE LEA MUSIC CENTRE
RECORDS
Independent Studio label: De Lane Lea Music Centre Records. In 1969 the company
De Lane Lea consisted of a film post production studio and the music recording
studio in Kingsway. Both had been highly successful and Kingsway recording
studios had become one of the top places to record rock. The studio was managed
by Dave Siddle and with the recording of artists including The Animals,
Deep Purple, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix , he was seen as the person to
undertake the building of a new music complex that would bring their current
business under one roof and expand. De Lane Lea's parent group BET
owned land in Wembley that had originally been the site of the 1924 British
Empire Exhibition. The studio was built over the top of what was originally an
ornamental boating lake. De Lane Lea
Music Centre or The Music Centre as it became was the first purpose built
recording studio in the UK, ( built from scratch, not in a converted building)
constructed to such a size that it would be able to handle work from rock bands
up to the largest orchestras for film scores. It took two years to complete the
build. The studio was located in 129 Kingsway Holborn, London, before it was
relocated to Wembley, London, in 1971. It also was known as Kingsway
Studios before this change. Engineers known to have worked here Lou Austin
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