Dean Street Studios has had many
identities over the last few decades. As far as we can trace back,
we found its life started as a film studio in the 1950’s.
In 1976, the wonderful and legendary Tony Visconti bought the
lease for the studio and it became his ‘Good Earth Studios’.
Tony had secured his place as a well-known producer for artists
such as David Bowie and TRex and recorded albums with them in
the studio, here in Soho.
Other Artists to record at Good Earth studios include: Thin Lizzy,
U2, Moody Blues, Adam Ant, Prefab Sprout and The Alarm amongst
many, many others.
Tony then, in 1989, passed the lease onto a production house named
Joe & Co. They moved in and transformed the place into multiple
recording suites, but left the original studio as it was. They
had a voice-over suite put in and recorded Stephen Fry doing the
audio books for Harry Potter books 1-6, they also had such artists
as Brian from Placebo, Cliff Richard, Chrissie Hynde and Bruce
Hornsby do pieces of work within the complex. Dusty Springfield
also did her last ever recording here in Studio 1.
Dean Street Studios was then born in August 2007.
