#stargroves

—Eddie Kramer, Guitar Player magazine, March 2023

During the filming of the 1975 Doctor Who episode "Pyramids of Mars", Stargroves, Mick Jagger’s countryside mansion, was used as a key location. Permission was granted by Mick, though he was away at the time, with only his parents staying at the estate during production.

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Jimmy Page and Robert Plant recording new songs using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio at Stargroves, Newbury, Berkshire, England. May 15, 1972.

“Houses Of The Holy and Physical Graffiti are sort of interconnected, so I’m involved with both records to a degree. There were a bunch of engineers on both records, actually. We cut tracks at Stargroves, which was Mick Jagger’s house, using the Stones’ mobile. So we had all of these tracks, and Pagey would figure out what he wanted to do with them. That was his vibe.”

“Jimmy never forgets. I had all my pictures from Stargroves ,a great series of pictures of Robert with an acoustic guitar , and I showed them to Jimmy in a hotel in New York twenty years after the event. He goes, ‘That fucking prat…’ He just went off like a fucking rocket about Robert: ‘I told him never to touch my fucking guitar. I went round the corner for a quick gypsy’s and he had the fucking audacity to pick up my fucking guitar and I told him never to touch it!’ I said, ‘Jimmy, give it up. It was fucking years ago.’ The paranoia and the suspicion and all that stuff is part and parcel of who he is, and unfortunately it manifests itself in some weird ways” -Eddie Kramer

Guitar Player, March 2023