David Cassidy's London. RG Jones Studio

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I love London, also because there are endless possibilities of discovering and exploring this amazing city. You can try to visit for example all the parks, or museums or football grounds. 

There is Shakespeare's London and Charles Dickens' London, and many, many more, wherever you go or stay there is always something absolutely outstanding to see. When I was in May this year my hotel was 300 meters from The Paddington Station, which is a marvel in itself,  200 meters from the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum, and about 800m from Hyde Park. 

You can spend many, many years in London and still so many things to see left. And of course now first of all I want to get to know better the David Cassidy's London. 

Let's listen to the song (one of my fav from Romance album) recorded by DC in London, in 1984.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxhRzr7_O78

It's a great mystery why this very well made and produced album wasn't released in the US. It scored a Top Ten hit with 'The Last Kiss' in the UK, with a world superstar in backing vocals. Maybe Clive Davis, the founder of Arista knows the reason. He still lives, born in 1932, and of course he is in Rock&Roll Hall of Fame (as a non-performer)..

And that album was recorded in a really outstanding studio, already in the 80s it was very famous and very special one.

David Cassidy : 'We did the Romance album at RG Jones Studios. I was living with Dick Leahy and his wife, Tinca, at the Wick, on Richmond Hill (another very famous place!!!) and I was making the album with Alan Tarney, who lived around the corner. There have been so many hits recorded at RG Jones over the years. It's this little studio in Wimbledon, this little hole-in-the-wall kind of place that has been there for so long, at one point or another most artists had recorded there, the Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, A-ha..'(David Cassidy : Could It Be Forever?, 2007)

Another solid European hit from that album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR3r5zdG52c

RG Jones Studio was founded in 1926 by an outstanding, amazing, self-taught man, Ronald Godfrey Jones. He worked as a salesman in a busy street and he wanted to be heard, so he built a public address system which he mounted on top of his caravan, and it was a great success. The actual recording studio was built in 1943. This absolutely iconic place, one of the oldest, independent music recording studios in the UK, the studio where  also David Cassidy recorded his album, was closed in 2001.

The link to the petition

https://chng.it/NgppymDR6K


Byhttp://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1152410,Fairuse, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31307567

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