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    Jul 16, 2020 2 minutes

    ROCKFIELD: THE STUDIO ON THE FARM

    BBC IPLAYER

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    Rocking out in a rustic setting

    BROTHERS Kingsley and Charles Ward began their south Wales recording enterprise in the 1960s with a potato loft soundproofed by pig feedbags, but by the following decade it was state-of-the-art and the ideal location for musicians wishing to get it together in the country. Rockfield was, they claim, the UK’s first residential studio, and as the great and the good

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