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Lennon chose to build this studio, which featured eight recording tracks on one-inch Open-reel Tape and a sixteen-channel Mixing Console , so he and wife/collaborator Ono could record without the inconvenience of having to book studio time at Abbey Road or another location. They could also avoid negative pressure from EMI and Apple Records staffers, and members of the British public, who disdained Ono's avant-garde stylings and tried to persuade Lennon to make more "sellable" music, as he had with the now-defunct Beatles . (Chance encounters with other ex-Beatles were likewise avoided.) Technical personnel and outside musicians were summoned as required, kept on standby, or stayed at Lennon and Ono's guest quarters (as they did for the '' Imagine '' and '' Fly '' sessions) if necessary, to make records that satisfied the two. First to be recorded were the twin '''' documentary, and a separate documentary about the making of the album. Recorded at the same time as ''Imagine'' was Yoko Ono's album ''Fly'' (whose title song was the soundtrack to their movie of the same name), and these appear to be the last records completed at the studio. Shortly after the release of both, Lennon and Ono flew to New York for an extended visit late in 1971, and never returned, deciding to stay in America. As part of Tittenhurst Park, Ascot Sound Studios changed hands when Lennon and Ono sold the estate. The buyer was Lennon's old friend and bandmate Ringo Starr, whose family lived in the house at Tittenhurst until the 1990s, but no further use of the recording studio was ever noted. |
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