{"id":825840,"date":"2026-11-06T08:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/825840\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T08:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:34:09","slug":"surrey-exhibition-honours-studio-linked-to-music-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/825840\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey exhibition honours studio linked to music legends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Surrey recording studio where 70s band 10cc, plus Paul McCartney and Cliff Richard created some of their most iconic hits is being celebrated in a new exhibition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The dilapidated Pavilion Cinema in South Street, Dorking, was transformed into a state-of-the-art recording studio, named Strawberry Studios South, by 10cc in 1976.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The band recorded its hit fifth album, Deceptive Bends, at the site in 1977, with the album title taking its name from the road sign on the nearby A24 Mickleham bends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dorking Museum curator Kathy Atherton said: &#8220;10cc were so proud to be making music outside of London.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s great to celebrate Strawberry Studios South as it is 50 years since it opened and many records that were made in this small town went on to become international hits.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Surrey recording studio where 70s band 10cc, plus Paul McCartney and Cliff Richard created some of their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-825840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}