Paul McCartney, speaking to the BBCs Newsnight television program on Tuesday, said there have been efforts to save Abbey Road by a few people who have been associated with the studio for a long time, although he did not name those people or include himself among them. I have so many memories there with the Beatles, he added. It still is a great studio. So it would be lovely for someone to get a thing together to save it.
The Financial Times, citing anonymous sources, has reported that EMI, the longtime owner of the studio, in North London home to most Beatles sessions had put the building on the market. The National Trust, nationaltrust.org.uk, a British preservation charity, said on its Web site, that it would consider buying the complex.
