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The Château d'Hérouville is a French château of the 18th century (1740) located in the village of Hérouville, in the Val d'Oise ''département'' of France, near Paris. The château was built in 1740 by Gaudot, an architect of the school of Rome, from the remains of an earlier 16th century château.〔Ministry of Culture: (Château dit d'Hérouville ) 〕 In the 19th century, it was used as courier relay station (between Versailles and Beauvais) and stabled a hundred horses.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Honky Château - Hérouville 75 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HEROUVILLE - 95300 Val d'Oise )〕 The château was painted by Vincent van Gogh, who is buried nearby.〔Kim Willsher, ("For sale: 'honky château' where Elton and Bowie recorded classic hits" ), ''The Observer'', 4 August 2013〕 ==Recording studio== The composer Michel Magne purchased it in 1962. He was best known for having been nominated in 1962 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment for ''Gigot''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=allmovie (((Michel Magne > Awards ))) )〕 He converted it into a residential recording studio after a fire devastated the left wing of the building in 1969. The musician, director and sound engineer Laurent Thibault took over management of the studio in June 1974.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Michel MAGNE )〕 The Grateful Dead were there on 21 June 1971, for one of their most exotic gigs. Jerry Garcia tells the story:〔 〕 We went over there to do a big festival, a free festival they were gonna have, but the festival was rained out. It flooded. We stayed at this little chateau which is owned by a film score composer who has a 16-track recording studio built into the chateau, and this is a chateau that Chopin once lived in; really old, just delightful, out in the country near the town of Auvers-sur-Oise, which is where Vincent van Gogh is buried. We were there with nothing to do: France, a 16-track recording studio upstairs, all our gear, ready to play, and nothing to do. So, we decided to play at the chateau itself, out in the back, in the grass, with a swimming pool, just play into the hills. We didn't even play to hippies, we played to a handful of townspeople in Auvers. We played and the people came — the chief of police, the fire department, just everybody. It was an event and everybody just had a hell of a time — got drunk, fell in the pool. It was great. Many artists recorded there, many of whom were British, beginning with Elton John, who called it the "honky château", and used the nickname as the title of the album he recorded there, ''Honky Château'' and ''Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player'', in 1972. He also recorded ''Goodbye Yellow Brick Road'' in 1973. Sweet recorded part of their final album, ''Level Headed'', there as a four piece group as Brian Connolly later left. The single "Love Is Like Oxygen" was taken from this recording, a top ten hit around the world and nominated for an Ivor Novello Award. During David Bowie's time spent at the château whilst recording ''Low'' with Tony Visconti and Brian Eno the three claimed to have felt super-natural, or 'haunting' experiences.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_honky_chateau_where_bowie_bolan_elton_and_iggy_recorded )〕 Visconti stated; "There was certainly some strange energy in that Château. On the first day David took one look at the master bedroom and said, “I’m not sleeping in there!” He took the room next door. The master bedroom had a very dark corner, right next to the window, ironically, that seem to just suck light into it. It was colder in that corner too." Whilst Eno also claimed to have been awoken early every morning with someone shaking his shoulder. When he opened his eyes no one was there. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Château d'Hérouville」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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