The Police, Duran Duran and AIR Studios Montserrat

For a time in the 1980s, the biggest bands in the world would head to George Martin's AIR Studios on the Caribbean island of Montserrat to make their career defining albums. #thepolice #duranduran #recordingstudios #podcast

This is an excerpt from Episode 6 of the Wax Audio Show: Ghost Studios - Part 1. Listen to the full episode here: https://waxaudio.net/episode-6-ghost-...

Full episode description:

In the 1980s, there were three residential studios that were among the greatest the world has ever known - A.I.R. Montserrat, Le Studio, outside of Montreal, and Compass Point Studios in The Bahamas. These three incredible studios all had several things in common. They were all in idyllic and secluded locations. They all helped to create the music that defined an era. And they were all ultimately abandoned, with only the ghosts of the music and memories that were made there, echoing within their forgotten and decaying walls. In this - the first of two episodes - we tell the tales of A.I.R. Montserrat and Le Studio - how they started, what happened there, and the lonely fates that befell them. Welcome to the Wax Audio Show…