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Apple opens 600-capacity music venue inside Pink Floyd's Battersea Power Station

Apple Music Hall debuts at the London site pictured on Pink Floyd's 1977 'Animals' album cover.

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What to know

  • Apple has opened Apple Music Hall, a 600-capacity live music venue inside London's Battersea Power Station.
  • The building is the site pictured on the cover of Pink Floyd's 1977 album 'Animals'.
  • The power station, decommissioned in the early 1980s and empty until 2014, has since been redeveloped into a mixed-use complex housing Apple's European headquarters, shops, apartments and a chimney-top viewing lift.

Oliver Schusser Apple Music vice presidentPink Floyd Band whose 1977 album 'Animals' pictured the power stationRafael Polcaro Journalist, Rock and Roll Garage

Apple opens 600-capacity music venue inside Pink Floyd's Battersea Power Station
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    Music outlets detail the venue's Pink Floyd cover-art connection

    Coverage recaps the power station's history—decommissioned in the early '80s, left empty until 2014, then redeveloped into a shopping and residential complex with a chimney-top viewing lift—and situates Apple Music Hall within that transformation.

    “Apple’s deep love for music dates all the way back to the very beginning, from the launch of the iPod to the long-running iTunes Music Festival to the debut of Apple Music.”
    — Oliver Schusser
    • rockandrollgarage.bsky.social

      Music venue opens at Pink Floyd’s “Animals” album cover location

      rockandrollgarage.bsky.socialBluesky5h ago35▲view on Bluesky ↗
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    Apple opens Apple Music Hall at Battersea Power Station

    Apple announced the opening of Apple Music Hall, a new music venue with a capacity of 600 people, inside the redeveloped Battersea Power Station in London, the building depicted on Pink Floyd's 'Animals' album cover.

    1. 2 outlets first by Rolling Stone, 1d ago · also Ultimate Classic Rock · read ↗