Black Sabbath’s Favorite Studio Retreat on Sale for $2.4 Million

The residential U.Ok. studio the place Black Sabbath most popular to write and rehearse within the band’s heyday is for sale at $2.45million (£1.95million).

You can see dozens of photographs of the studio beneath.

The Old Mill House was as soon as a part of the long-lasting Rockfield Studios complicated in rural Wales. Owner Jo Riou has run it as a separate studio, vacation house and enterprise middle, however she now needs to maneuver on – and hopes the following house owners will continued its musical heritage.

“I have been told that behind all the sound proofing on the walls is where Ozzy Osbourne drew pentagrams on the walls. I was told that Jimmy Page had drawn a mural on the wall too,” Riou instructed Wales Online. “So when someone buys the house and if they don’t want this room as a studio, they could strip it out and God only knows what they will find!”

She added: “Black Sabbath are lovely. They’ve been here many times over the years – they have been our most endearing and longest serving clients. Ozzy Osbourne did a couple of solo albums here when he left Black Sabbath, and we’ve had the full line-up with Bill Ward back in the band … in to rehearse.

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“I’ve had Tony Iommi do a couple of solo albums here, and we did the tribute to Ronnie James Dio here, when he passed away. They’ve been the ones that have been back the most.”

Riou recalled the problem of offering catering to Sabbath and different bands. “[S]omeone is a vegan, somebody is gluten-free; we’ve had all the diets here,” she stated. “When Ozzy was here he was on a brown rice and mushroom diet, and when he was on that diet Tony Iommi – who really likes good food – wanted steak; and Geezer Butler was a vegan, so it needed thought to cook for all these different people. Drummer Bill Ward would help me wash up – I’d wash and he’d dry and we’d have a lovely chat.”

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She reported that each Osbourne and Simple Minds’ Jim Kerr all the time stayed in Room Seven, and added that “the bin men were very excited when Black Sabbath were here – my bins were emptied every day!”

Reflecting on what she’d discovered about working with big-name artists together with Oasis, Tom Jones and plenty of others, she stated: “They are only people, and when you’re sharing a house with them, and they’re sat in the living room in their pajamas, it kind of takes that starstruck gloss off it.”

Estate brokers Roscoe, Rogers and Knight described The Old Mill as an “extraordinary 11-bedroom, 10-bathroom country residence,” persevering with: “Built in the late 17th century, once used as a rehearsal space for the nearby iconic Rockfield studios, it holds an exceptional history in the world of music.

“This one-of-a-kind property offers a wealth of charming original features with tasteful blend of quality modern fixtures and finishes throughout… with detached newly completed three-bedroom eco lodge with stone-built workshop.”

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