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| For more terrific information on London's music history, check out Max Wooldridge's 'Rock n Roll London' (New Holland) and Tony Bacon's excellent 'London Live' (Balafon). Both "right rivetting reads" as they say... |
| | One of the things I love most about this exciting city of ours (having been a fully paid up, bona fide music nut since I can remember) are the manyhistorical music landmarks scattered across the capital. Ever since I caught the pop bug and first walked across the famous zebra crossing at Abbey Road studios, I've always kept my beady eyes out for a venue, house or office with some significant rawk association, and probably bored many a chum and girlfriend with a related anecdote. In fact (talk about a labour of love!) I'm currently working on a project where I'm compiling a list of places with an important music connection. Venue visits So far we'll be visiting a whole host of attractions, including THE hangout for clued in, pilled-up mods in the early 60s, The Scene Club in Soho's Ham Yard to The Speakeasy in Margaret Street, where bands like the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Deep Purple and Thin Lizzy were regular turns, and where The Who's Pete Townshend famously met Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook in 1977, telling them they were the only hope for rock. One of my personal favourites, which I bet has a few ghost-with-it stories to tell, has to be the IN PLACE of the mid 60s, the Ad Lib Club, situated at the top of 7 Leicester Place (the building also housed the offices of the council refuse collectors apparently!), off Leicester Square. Spiked  | | Gary Crowley: getting connected, musically-speaking, in London |
A regular haunt with the pop glitterati of the day as well as fashion designers like Mary Quant and Jean Muir and actresses like Hayley Mills and Julie Christie, it was here that Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison came with their respective partners after having their drinks spiked with LSD while having dinner with their dentist. Now I would love to have been a fly on the wall in the club that night! |
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