The Pheasantry is one of London’s premier spaces for jazz, cabaret and more. In 2012, this beautiful and atmospheric room was nominated for Best Live Music Venue in the London Lifestyle Awards, coming second only to the Royal Albert Hall.
Eric Clapton lived on the first floor of this Georgian building in 1967, sharing its facilities with Martin Sharp, a psychedelic poster artist who later that year designed Cream‘s Disraeli Gears sleeve, feminist intellectual Germaine Greer, filmmaker Philippe Mora, artist Timothy Whidborne, David Litvinoff, writer Anthony Haden-Guest and Sharp’s friend Robert Whitaker, possibly The Beatles‘ preferred photographer.
The year before, Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni held a party here to select cool-looking extras for his movie Blow Up.
Address: 152 King’s Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4NX
Good memories – I used to play here in the early seventies with a rock band called ‘ Argus’ It waa a great gig,
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