Beatles For sale

What can be best described as The Beatles' main workshop/spiritual home,Abbey Road studios is up for sale.If you've got a spare £10 million you'll be buying what has been described as an 'expensive heritage' & 'a brand worth more than the building.'
Originally built in 1831, no. 3 Abbey Road was bought by EMI in 1929 for £100,000, which seems a colossal amount even then, especially  as I don't even have such an amount now! The studios opened in 1931 & Edward Elgar was recorded with the London Symphony orchestra perfoming 'Land of Hope & Glory'.
It was of course The Beatles who really brought world wide fame to the studios, using it to record most of their songs , & naming their last album 'Abbey Road' with it's iconic cover showing John,Ringo,Paul & George walking over the Zebra crossing. Paul being barefoot was 'proof' of course that he was 'dead', but that's another story...
The first time I visited Abbey Road studios was on September 27th,1982, as guest of my good friend paul Tidey, or 'Beatle Brain of Britain ' as he's known in some high & lofty circles! Using the studios that day was Louis clark with the Royal Philharmonic orchestra recording their 1st 'Hooked on classics' album, & also Alan parsons was hard at work on his 'Eye in the sky' album.
It seems these days that because of the revolution in home recording, whether in the way of laptops or pc based programs such as cubase, despite the kudos of recording at such a legendary studio as Abbey Road it's just too expensive for most of us. In total it appears that EMI need to raise £120million by June. No doubt John Lennon's rendition with The Beatles of 'Money' springs to the collective minds of EMI- 'The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds & bees, just give me money!'