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A couple days ago, we reported the planned sale of EMI‘s legendary recording facilities on Abbey Road, London, to raise much-needed cash for the label’s parent company.

That same day a group of studio employees, musicians and fans formed Save Abbey Road Studios! to try and keep the property a working recording facility. The group’s fear: The facility will be converted into a museum of some sort, or, worse, luxury housing.

The group’s put a petition on its Web site that’s, so far, gathered 249 electronic signatures in support of its mission.

You can lend your support and sign the petition here.

Despite notoriety for once wearing a home-made T-shirt that read “I hate Pink Floyd,” Sex Pistol Johnny Lydon said in an interview published today he’d like to re-do the Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon.”

The Stool Pigeon interview, teased today at sister publication Web site The Quietus, quotes Lydon as saying, “You’d have to be daft as a brush to say you didn’t like Pink Floyd. They’ve done great stuff. They’ve done rubbish too. ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ I love.”

He goes on to say an invite was on the table for him to join Floyd — we presume he means Roger Waters — on stage at a 2008 Los Angeles gig.

Read the full excerpt at The Quietus.

The London studio where Pink Floyd recorded extensively — including sessions for “Dark Side of the Moon,” “Wish You Were Here” and many others — is up for sale.

The sale is expected to raise tens of thousand of pounds for Terra Firma, the investment firm that in 2007 bought the financially-troubled EMI record label, which owns the property.

Loads of bands have recorded at the facility, including, most famously, The Beatles, who named their 1969 album after the St. John’s Wood street where the studios are located.

By the way, be careful crossing the street. It’s busy.

“Like TiVo® for radio” is the most common way we hear it described.

We’re talking about the RadioTime online directory, combined with software such as RedButton (Windows) or Rogue Amoeba’s Radioshift (Mac), which allows you to schedule recordings of radio shows for listening later.

As the Random Precision Radio Network expands — five affiliate stations so far — we’ve turned to RadioTime to help us track our growing number of air dates and times for our weekly “Floydian Slip” show in a single space.

The real power of the directory comes when you combine it with one of many software or hardware products that use the directory to allow listeners to schedule weekly recordings of the program.

Desktop recording is just one option. Many mobile solutions allow you to tune in, capture streams and listen later on your cellphone.

We have no affiliation with Radiotime or any of the products it powers, but wanted to give them a shoutout as a great way to make sure you don’t miss a single episode of “Floydian Slip.”