Arpeggio wrote:Insofar as I am aware, Tony did not miss any TV Broadcasts / Recording Sessions / BBC Radio Broadcasts etc........BUT...if anyone knows different.....then please do tell. Hank & Bruce did mention Tony missing theatre shows to me several times......but never mentioned him missing those other types of events.
Most of The Shadows' TV appearances and radio appearances would have originated from a London studio of one sort or another.
ATV and A-R at Kingsway, BBC in West London, ABC TV at Hackney ("Oh, Boy!") and Teddington (though sometimes Aston in Birmingham). I don't think they ever worked for Granada, though they might have performed at the studios of one of the "minor" regional stations (probably not, though).
BBC mainly at the London studios (including the TV Theatre at Shepherd's Bush as well as TV Centre). Radio Luxembourg (pre-recorded) from that station's Central London facility. There was no BBC local radio until towards the end of the 1960s and not very much from the Corporation's regional services either. There was no UK commercial radio until the early 1970s.
Recording sessions for record would all have taken place at EMI.
Tony would have been able to get to any of the London studios even after a luxurious "lie-in", I should think.