Many renowned popular music artists recorded there, including King Crimson, Queen, Sex Pistols, the Clash, Pete Townshend and the Pretenders.
[4] From 1946 to 1949 it was the home of the Rank Organisation's Company of Youth - more popularly known as the Rank Charm School - where future stars of British films, such as Diana Dors, Christopher Lee, Barbara Murray and Pete Murray, were tutored and paid about £10/week.
As a result, the two groups had several interactions, including the famous meeting between Freddie Mercury and Sid Vicious.
Vicious, upon stumbling into the studio where Queen was working, asked "Have you succeeded in bringing ballet to the masses yet?"
in response to a comment the singer had made in an interview with NME, to which Mercury called him "Simon Ferocious" (a reference to Vicious' real name) and replied "We're doing our best, dear.
According to Wessex engineer Bill Price, Rotten crawled on all fours across Queen's studio to Mercury, who was playing piano, and said "Hello Freddie" before leaving.
In 1993, Chrysalis sold Wessex to Nigel Frida, who made it part of his Matrix Studio group, re-naming it Matrix-Wessex.