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Headley Grange

East Hampshire

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  1. Headley Grange — Private location; no pin

Music happened here

Led Zeppelin IV at Headley Grange

Led Zeppelin record in residence

Early 1971

Led Zeppelin spent several weeks at Headley Grange in early 1971 using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio to develop and record material for their fourth album.

The lobby becomes the drum room

During the Led Zeppelin IV sessions, 1971

Andy Johns recalled recording John Bonham’s When the Levee Breaks drums in Headley Grange’s lobby with microphones above on the stairs, using limiters and a Binson Echorec in the recorded sound.

Reading the place today

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Headley Grange is a private property, not a public recording attraction. No interior access or precise room pin is supplied. The album and the participants’ accounts provide the encounter with its historical recording spaces.

This place remains listed without a map pin.

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