A WORLD famous recording studio used by the likes of Queen, Led Zeppelin, Oasis and Black Sabbath has gone on the market for nearly £1.5m.

Monnow Valley Studios near Monmouth set in a 17th century coach house was nearby Rockfield Studios’ rehearsal space from the early 1970s until it became an independent recording venue in its own right in the 1980s.

Famously, it was where Oasis hatched their debut album Definitely Maybe in 1994, working on songs like Live Forever, Cigarettes and Alcohol, Supersonic and Rock ‘n’ Roll Star.

Although the album was ultimately recorded elsewhere, the photo for their debut single Supersonic was taken in the Monnow Valley studio, while the band later recalled scaring the living daylights out of frontman Liam Gallagher by tricking him into believing the 10-bedroomed house was haunted.

They returned later to record their greatest album What’s The Story Morning Glory at Rockfield, in between visits to their favourite Monmouth pub, the Nags Head, and football on Chippenham fields.

The list of legendary artists to visit the studios, two miles from Monmouth, includes violinist Nigel Kennedy, who arranged a football match in town with Oasis, Catatonia, Simple Minds, Feeder, Joss Stone, Stereophonics, Pulp, The Charlatans, EMF, Super Furry Animals, Robert Plant, Kaiser Chiefs, Busted, and Sir Tom Jones, who recorded his new, as yet unreleased album, there.

During their stay there, Liam Gallagher was tricked by his Oasis bandmates into believing the studio was haunted by a ghost.

His brother Noel, Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs, Paul “Guigsy” McGuigan and Tony McCarroll used fishing line attached to objects to make it look like a “ghost” was moving things around.

“I get there and I get a decent room,” Liam recalled. “They were all playing tricks, saying it was haunted.”

Guitarist Arthurs added: “One day we went in for dinner and it was casually mentioned ‘who’s sleeping in room number three?’

“And it was Liam. He said ‘that’s me’.

“The lady said ‘right you’ve got the haunted one then’.

“He was like, ‘What, what you on about?’.

“The lady said ‘the ghost’. And we’re like ‘what, a real ghost?’.

“And she said ‘yeah, yeah it’s haunted – some dark figure has been seen in there’.”

Liam added: “I go to bed one night and I wake up in the morning and all of the furniture has moved around.

“I’ve gone downstairs and said ‘look it must be haunted man, I’ve got to change rooms’.”

Arthurs continued: “So I got a load of fishing line and looped it round the lights. You couldn’t see it because it was fishing line. Everyone knew about it, except Liam.

“We were all watching football or something and I started pulling this line.”

Liam takes it on: “We’re sitting there by the fire and the next thing the chandelier tilts – and I’m like ‘have you seen that, have you seen that?’.”

“There’s a copy of the Daily Mirror or something on the table and I’ve made a little hole in the corner,” Arthurs remembers. “There’s also a pair of trainers on the floor and I’ve put line though the laces.

“So I’m doing the newspaper sketch and I started curling the front page open. I then held it up and I let the line go and it dropped. Liam was like ‘did you see that, did you see that?’

“We were like ‘see what?’ and he was like ‘that newspaper just opened and shut’. We were like ‘shut up it’s the wind’ and he’s like ‘it did, it did’.

“You can see him watching it and we did it again and Liam said ‘it moved again’. It was one of them – just panic.

“Then I just really tugged it so the whole newspaper went across the table. So, of course, we all jumped up.”

Monnow Valley has been a guest house for some 70 years and its title deed dates back to the 1600s.

The sale, which is being handled by MJQ, includes a mile of the River Monnow famed for its trout fishing, with full angling rights.

For more details, see www.mjq.co.uk/property/monnow-val ley-recording-studios- monmouth