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Article: Music legend's building burns down
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 29, 2009
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LEGENDARY IRISH musician Tony Allen surveyed the charred remains
of his business yesterday as gardai searched through the debris of
Roseland House in Moate, Co Westmeath.
The severely damaged property had housed six businesses including
Roseland Studios, where Mick Foster and Tony Allen, Daniel
O'Donnell, Mick Flavin, Brendan Shine and many other well-known
known musicians have recorded.
The recording studio, in the basement of the building, contained
no memorabilia but would have "an awful lot of expensive equipment",
Mr Allen remarked.
The Westmeath singer said a fire had broken out shortly before
10pm on Tuesday. "It definitely started upstairs. Smoke started
coming out of one of the ...