The Manor Studio (aka The Manor) was a recording studio in the manor house at the village of Shipton-on-Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England, north of the city of Oxford. It was the first residential recording studio in the UK. ==Individual Studio== A recording studio is a facility for sound recording. ... Shipton-on-Cherwell train crash, 1874 Shipton-on-Cherwell is a village in Oxfordshire, England near Kidlington just north of the city of Oxford, on the River Cherwell. ... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in the South East of England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article is about the city of Oxford in England. ...

The manor house was owned by Richard Branson and used as a recording studio for Virgin Records, although artists signed to other labels also used the studios. Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English entrepreneur, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 companies. ... Virgin Records was a British recording label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Nik Powell in 1972. ...

In 1995, after the takeover of Virgin Records by EMI, The Manor Studio was closed as a recording studio by EMI. For other uses, see EMI (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see EMI (disambiguation). ...

Albums recorded here include, perhaps most famously, Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield during 1972–73 when Oldfield was given a week to record the album at the studio. The Bonzo Dog Band were recording there immediately afterwards, hence the inclusion of vocals by Viv Stanshall, the lead singer of that band^[1]. This article is about the Mike Oldfield album. ... Michael Gordon Oldfield (born May 15, 1953 in Reading, England) is a multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music and more recently dance. ... The Bonzo Dog Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Bonzo Dog Dada Band and, colloquially, as The Bonzos) was a band created by a group of British art-school denizens of the 1960s. ... Vivian Stanshall (March 21, 1943 – March 5, 1995) was an English musician, writer, wit, and raconteur and is probably best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. ...

Studio facilities

The facilities were advertised as follows, as of 1973^[2]:

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Partial list of albums recorded at The Manor

• Let's Make Up and Be Friendly (1971-1972) - The Bonzo Dog Band - known as the first band to enter the finished studio in November 1971.
• The Academy in Peril (1972) - John Cale
• Tubular Bells (September 1972 - March 1973) — Mike Oldfield
• Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead (1973) - Vivian Stanshall
• Flying Teapot (1973) - Gong
• Double Diamond (1973) — If
• Leg End (May 1973) — Henry Cow
• Faust IV (June 1973) — Faust
• Spring Suite (July 1973) — McKendree Spring
• October (1973) — Claire Hamill
• You (1974) - Gong
• Unrest (February – March 1974) — Henry Cow
• Ghosts (July-September 1974) Strawbs
• Slapp Happy (1974) — Slapp Happy
• Local Lads Make Good (1975) - Supercharge
• Deepcuts (spring/summer 1976) Strawbs
• White Music (October 1977) - XTC
• Frenzy (album) (November – December 1978) — Split Enz
• English Settlement (October – November 1981) - XTC
• All Fall Down (March 1982) — The Sound
• Mummer (album) (September - December 1982) - XTC
• Born Again (1983) — Black Sabbath
• Electric (1986) — The Cult
• Wish (1992) - The Cure
• The Bends (1995) - Radiohead

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References

1. ^ Tubular Bells information
2. ^ Notes in 25th Anniversary Edition of Tubular Bells, 1998

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