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G Flip reveals how they charmed Selling Sunset star wife Chrishell Stause - after announcing exciting baby plans It may have begun life as an affluent suburban house, but it soon became a creative hub renowned around the world as a place where great music, ground-breaking sounds and unforgettable tunes were forged—nothing less than a witness to, and a key participant in, the history of popular music itself. EMILY PRESCOTT: Cressida's chilled to the Bonas... Prince Harry's ex-girlfriend shows she's still a fan of real shopsTreats for under the tree: Top 10 festive gift ideas that promise to be all THEY want for Christmas But what they really were was great record-makers. The classic case of this is when they go in there to record She Loves You.’ At some points though, the book grew tedious. I don't have a huge interest in which exact machine was used for what sound in what year on whatever record. A little bit is, of course, welcome, but Hepworth took it overboard a lot, seemingly showing off his knowledge - or researching skills. As Hepworth's engrossing book comes to an end, he wistfully captures the image that greets tourists as they wind their way from the St. John's Wood tube line to 3 Abbey Road. "It's a lovely evening," he writes, "and as I make for the station the first teenagers of spring are gathering, waiting for their turn on the zebra crossing." It's no great leap to imagine that as long as human beings love music, they'll be making that fabled pilgrimage, walking in the footsteps of giants for centuries to come. Now the extraordinary story of Abbey Road, the most famous recording studio in the world created behind the front door of an elegant residential house in affluent St John’s Wood, has been told in thrilling (and very witty) detail by David Hepworth, one of the country’s most respected music journalists and foundereditor of some of the best music magazines — Q, The Word and Mojo.