BRAD PITT To Reopen Legendary Recording Studio Where PINK FLOYD, AC/DC Recorded
December 13, 2021, 2 years ago
According to The Hollywood Reporter the place where Pink Floyd's The Wall was made has fallen into disrepair - but a major renovation will see the facility ready for a new generation of star musicians by summer 2022.
Back in the late 1970s and 1980s, rock superstars like Pink Floyd, AC/DC and The Cure would journey to a 900-acre property near the French Riviera, where they would create landmark records - not the least of which was Pink Floyd’s 1979 album The Wall (which was partly recorded there) - amid a bucolic paradise. After two decades of neglect, that studio will soon rise again. And Brad Pitt is the reason for it.
Nestled inside his winemaking estate, Studio Miraval consists of three houses, where artists lived while recording, taking breaks to recharge in a swimming pool. A live-in chef would prepare all their meals. The studio itself measured about 3,000 square feet, with a 650-square-foot control room.
That storied destination - famous in the music world for conjuring up all sorts of creative alchemy - was purchased in 2012 by Pitt and then-partner Angelina Jolie.
The couple bought the entire estate for $60 million, having leased it the four years prior. In 2014, they married in Miraval’s 13th-century chapel - originally a barn for the Templar - putting guests up in its 30-room manor house, built in 1841.
Read the full report at The Hollywood Reporter.
