Last Friday night Apache Indian gave us a brilliant retrospective of his 20 year career, and helped celebrate the 75 year career of Maida Vale studios. It was a special night where British Desi Music was played out live, with confidence, and a sense of its place in the UK's musical history.
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On Friday 30th October the Asian Network will be celebrating 75 years of the BBC's Maida Vale studios. This iconic and celebrated building has been the home of the majority of live music sessions recorded for the BBC over the last seven decades. Everyone from the Beatles, Led Zeppelin & Jimi Hendrix through to Desi artists like D-Boy & Sukh Knight have graced this bunch of studio's in west London, and its generally agreed that the UK's love for 'live' music would be very different if the BBC hadn't started recording live sessions there.
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