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The IBC Recording Studios (IBC: International Broadcasting Company) were recording studios located at 35 Portland Place, London, England. In the 1960s–70s the studios become internationally famous after being used by some of the biggest recording artists in the world.
In the late 1970s, Don Arden and was run by his son David Arden.
In its long history, and especially in its heyday as IBC, the studios manufactured much of their own equipment under the direction of Denis King. The quadraphonic mixing desk designed in the early '70s was still in use in the late '80s by Radiotracks, though in a different building. The desk had been built to take advantage of the quadraphonic technology that had been pioneered for music, though this never became popular and the desk was never used for that purpose in its music days. Instead the quadraphonic system on the desk was put to good use for mixing soundtracks for large events, including a celebration of 800 years of the Lord Mayors of London at the Guildhall. Although all the large mixing desks have been dismantled, one smaller desk, a nine-into-three desk used for locations recording still exists and is in private hands. The small, fully transistorised desk, built around 1958, was used to record "My Old Man's a Dustman" by Lonnie Donegan in 1960.
Notable artists who have recorded at IBC studios include:
The Niteshades
The studios are today occupied by Musion das Hologram Ltd, which uses the space to demonstrate its life-size hologram technology, and to record footage for broadcast as holographic images. Madonna used the system to appear as her virtual self at the Grammy Awards.
Katharine Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Clint Eastwood
Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Let It Be, Apple Records, Billy Preston
The Who, Van Halen, The Jam, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, The Pretenders
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Rock music
Black Sabbath, Ian Gillan, Whitesnake, Steve Morse, Joe Satriani
Bee Gees, AllMusic, Maurice Gibb, Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb
John Entwistle, The Who, London, Pop music, Rock music
Bee Gees, Bee Gees' 1st, Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb
The Who, Rock music, Pete Townshend, Quadrophenia, John Entwistle
Bee Gees, Maurice Gibb, Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Barbra Streisand