Trident Studios was a recording studio in London. Opening in 1968, it remained open until 1981 and in that time, Trident Studios coined itself one of the most uniquely important recording studios in the world.
The legacy of this studio is now legendary but, alas, today the studio is no more, in fact, it's now a very upmarket townhouse which is sad to see.
Since it's closure, the studio has operated under various names and although now in a different location in London, it's now 'Trident Sound Studios' and they specialise in sound recording and mixing for TV.
But the ghostly reverberations of the studio still ring loud in our music and culture today, and in many ways just as loud as Abbey Road. Within a small window of time from 1968 to around 1978, the control room at Trident included 4 Lockwood Major monitoring loudspeakers for hearing back mixes.
That amazing 10 year window in time changed popular music forever and included some of the most prolific artists using the studio such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Queen, Lou Reed, T-Rex, Elton John, The Small Faces and others. This is the story of two of the actual loudspeakers used to make those amazing albums.
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The Tannoyista system with the Trident Studios Lockwood Majors |