Archives for October 2009

Maida Vale's Don Raja!

Bobby Friction | 01:26 UK time, Friday, 23 October 2009

On Friday 30th October the Asian Network will be celebrating 75 years of the BBC's Maida Vale studios.  This iconic and celebrated building has been the home of the majority of  live music sessions recorded for the BBC over the last seven decades. Everyone from the Beatles, Led Zeppelin & Jimi Hendrix through to Desi artists like D-Boy & Sukh Knight have graced this bunch of studio's in west London, and its generally agreed that the UK's love for 'live' music would be very different if the BBC hadn't started recording live sessions there.

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