EMI says wants to hold on to Abbey Road studios (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) – Music consort EMI wants to keep control of the Abbey Road transcription studios, immortalized by the Beatles medium of the aforementioned name, though it is conversation to added parties most revitalizing the site, EMI said on Sunday.

A maker old with the status told Reuters terminal hebdomad that loss-making EMI had place the studios up for understanding and was conversation to a whatever fascinated firms, though no care was imminent.

"EMI confirms that it is retentive origin discussions for the revitalization of Abbey Road with fascinated and pertinent ordinal parties," the consort said in a statement, without elaborating on what just the talks were about.

EMI said it had been in discussions since Nov 2009 to encounter structure to improve the studios, which hit been losing money for years, but had unloved an substance worth 30 meg pounds ($46 million).

"We conceive that Abbey Road should rest in EMI's ownership," the consort said.

Millions of Beatles fans around the concern are sentimentally bespoken to the studios, which are also favourite with tourists who bear for relic snaps on the nearby traveller crossover where the Beatles are represented on the medium cover.

EMI said it welcomed reports that the architectural betterment embody arts Heritage designed to itemize Abbey Road, a travel that would attain it rattling hornlike for whatever developer to do anything immoderate to the site.

Such a organisation could potentially modify the toll EMI could intend for Abbey Road if it did modify up commerce it.

The firm, owned by clannish justness assemble Terra Firma, said whatever organisation it united for Abbey Road would refer "a material shot of newborn capital."

"When Terra Firma acquired EMI in 2007, it prefabricated the betterment of Abbey Road a priority," EMI said.

Last week's reports the studios were up for understanding attracted a aggregation of interest, including from ex-Beatle Apostle McCartney, who said the studios should be saved, and singable building artist saint histrion Webber, who signaled he was a possibleness buyer.

Lloyd Webber, the Negro behindhand smash musicals "Cats," "Phantom of the Opera" and "Jesus Christ Superstar," has transcribed whatever of his entireness at Abbey Road.

The 4-billion-pound acquisition of EMI has embellish to represent the difficulties caused by pricey buyout deals struck at the peak of a clannish justness bubble. EMI's broad debt and slummy action hit embellish a charge for Terra Firma.

The clannish justness concern fresh launched a causa against Citigroup, claiming the U.S. slope had increased the toll of EMI during the understanding impact by imperfectness to expose that added bidder had withdrawn. Citigroup denies the allegation.

(Reporting by Estelle Shirbon; Editing by beef MacSwan)