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2 Notable songs recorded at RAK Studios  




3 RAK Mobile  




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Coordinates: 51°32′03″N 0°10′04″W / 51.5342°N 0.1677°W / 51.5342; -0.1677
  
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RAK Studios
Company typePrivate
IndustryMusic
Founded1976; 48 years ago (1976)inSt John's Wood, London, UK
FounderMickie Most
Headquarters42-48 Charlbert Street,
London
,
England
Websiterakstudios.co.uk

RAK Studios is a recording studio complex, with residential facilities, used by Rak Records, and located near Regent's Park in central London, England. It was founded in 1976 by English record producer Mickie Most.[1]

History

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The RAK complex resides within a Victorian building that was once a school and church hall before being owned by ATV and used for television program rehearsals before becoming RAK Studios in 1976.[2]

RAK has four recording rooms. Studios 1 and 2 house API mixing consoles; Studio 3 has a vintage Neve VRP Legend console[3] (previously at Abbey Road Studios' Studio 2); and Studio 4 is a 9.1.4 Atmos Room with Genelec system, which also operates a comfortable stereo mix and production room.

Notable songs recorded at RAK Studios

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  • "Bigmouth Strikes Again" – The Smiths[4]
  • "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" – The Jam
  • "Every 1's a Winner" – Hot Chocolate[5]
  • "Fairytale of New York" – The Pogues[6][7]
  • "Hold Me Now" – Thompson Twins
  • "Kids in America" – Kim Wilde
  • "Living Next Door to Alice" – Smokie
  • "Pretty in Pink" – The Psychedelic Furs[8]
  • "Shattered Dreams" – Johnny Hates Jazz
  • "Some Girls" – Racey
  • "Iron Deer Dream" – Fixers
  • "Vienna" – Ultravox
  • "When Love Breaks Down" – Prefab Sprout
  • "Histórias e Bicicletas" – Oficina G3

    • RAK Mobile

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    The RAK Mobile recording studio was a remote recording truck originally built in 1973 by former BBC engineer Doug Hopkins as the Trans European Audio Mobile, or TEAM. When approached by Mickie Most to rent the TEAM mobile for some long-term projects in France the following year, Hopkins suggested that it may make more sense for Most to buy the truck instead. Most purchased the mobile recording studio and re-branded it the RAK Records Mobile two years prior to establishing RAK Studios.[9]

    References

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    1. ^ Kuttner, Julia (13 October 2013). "The man who inspired Simon Cowell to be Most successful". Daily Express. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  • ^ Massey, Howard (2015). The Great British Recording Studios. Lanham, Maryland, US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 285–289. ISBN 978-1-4584-2197-5.
  • ^ "RAK Studios - Video features recorded at RAK". RecordProduction. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  • ^ Buskin, Richard (January 2005). "Classic Tracks: The Smiths 'The Queen Is Dead'". Sound on Sound. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  • ^ "Hot Chocolate – Every 1's A Winner". Discogs.
  • ^ Lynskey, Dorian (6 December 2012). "Fairytale of New York: the story behind the Pogues' classic Christmas anthem". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  • ^ Perry, Kevin EG (7 December 2012). "25 Things You Didn't Know About 'Fairytale of New York'". NME. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  • ^ Simpson, Dave (21 September 2020). "Pretty in Pink: the Psychedelic Furs on how they made a pop classic". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  • ^ Massey, Howard (2015). The Great British Recording Studios. Lanham, Maryland, US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 325–326. ISBN 978-1-4584-2197-5.

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