Recording Studios located in Notting Hill, until 1982 known as Basing Street Studios/Island Studios. From circa May 2011 to 2012 the London studio & UK operation moved from in-house personnel to a pool of freelance engineers and producers and simply became Sarm Studios, offering 3 suites & residency. Sarm West Coast remained unchanged.
See also Horn's prior studio in Berkshire; Sarm Hook End.
Also credited as:
- Sam West Studios
- Sarm West
- Sarm West Recording Studios
SARM (an acronym for Trevor Horn's company Sound And Recorded Mobile) West Studios is a UK recording studio, founded by Trevor Horn and his partner & wife Jill Sinclair in 1982, located in Notting Hill, London. The original Basing Street Studios were established by Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records and were also known as Island Studios.
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Bob Marley's his personal chef cooked at SARM for most of the 1980s. Also the cathedral organ on George Michael's album "Faith" was played there.
On 25 November 1984, Studio 1 at Sarm West was the venue for the recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas" by the members of Band Aid in support of relief efforts for the 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia (the studio time was donated by Trevor Horn).
The studios are currently owned by SPZ Group which is a holding company belonging to Trevor Horn and his wife Jill Sinclair. The Sarm Studios complex also contain the offices of SPZ (acronym for SARM, Perfect Songs & ZTT) owned record labels ZTT Records and Stiff Records and publishing companies Perfect Songs and Unforgettable Songs.
Engineers known to have worked here:
- Gary Langan (Director & senior engineer 1979-1983)
