Famous Haunted Chateau', Yours for only £1.12 Million.

For sale, Elton's 'Honky Chateau': Haunted mansion 
where musician recorded album and Bowie was too 
scared to stay in one of the rooms goes on sale for 
£1.12million.

• Nickname comes from the Honky Chateau album Elton John made there

• Others who recorded here include Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac

• The 18th century chateau overlooks meadows painted by Van Gogh

• Famous visitors dried up in the late 1980s and it fell into disrepair

Chateau d’Hérouville

A dilapidated French chateau used as a recording studio by the legends of British pop is
up for sale – but don’t expect any bids from David Bowie... he swears it’s haunted.

The ghost in question is thought to be that of composer Frederic Chopin.

Maybe he objected to the rafters of Chateau d’Hérouville vibrating to the music of punk
rockers Sham 69?

Elton John

He may have approved, though, of pianist Elton John rattling out Goodbye Yellow Brick Road there for his 1972 album Honky Chateau, named after the surroundings.

However, Bowie felt ‘supernatural energy’ when he recorded Pin Ups in 1973 and later returned for the highly-acclaimed Low album.

The floodgates then opened to the likes of Uriah Heep, Canned Heat, Rick Wakeman, Iggy Pop, the Bee Gees, Marvin Gaye, Fleetwood Mac and T Rex during the 1970s and early
1980s.

Now, after years of neglect, the chateau in the Val d’Oise region – 20 miles north of Paris – is up for sale for £1.12million. Built in 1740, it was painted by Vincent van Gogh and became famous thanks to French film composer Michel Magne, who bought it in 1962.

He transformed the building into a grand home with 30 rooms, a swimming pool and tennis
court in 17,000 hectares of parkland.

But, more importantly, he built a personal recording studio with such amazing acoustic
qualities that it quickly became the talk of musicians around the world.

It opened as a residential recording studio, nicknamed Strawberry Studios, with state-of-
the-art recording equipment.

One of the chateau’s musical highlights was an impromptu Grateful Dead concert in June
1971.

The late Jerry Garcia, the band’s lead guitarist said: ‘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.’

During a three-month stay at the chateau, Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks requested that
her bedroom be painted pink.

David Bowie, one of the many who recorded at the chateau'

Bowie stayed there with musician and producer Tony Visconti and Brian Eno. Visconti said:
‘There was certainly some strange energy in that chateau.

‘On the first day, David took one look at the master bedroom and said: “I’m not sleeping in there!”’
 

Eno claimed to have been awoken early every morning with someone shaking his shoulder,
but when he opened his eyes, no one was there.

Magne sold the property in 1979 and the new owners allowed the recording studio to remain
while pursuing plans to convert the chateau into luxury flats.

But the local authority denied permission and, apart from a brief period of rental, it has been
mostly empty for 28 years.

Estate agent Gilles Ditcharry said the property needs £250,000 worth of renovations. He
added: ‘It’s not a classically beautiful chateau, but it has a fantastic history.’

Courtesy of Wikimedia.

Built in 1740 in the Val d’Oise region 30km north of Paris, it was once painted by Vincent
van Gogh.

But it became famous thanks to French film composer Michel Magne, who won an Oscar
for his music for the Gene Kelly film Gigot, who bought it in 1962.


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