This is the location of the original Marquee Club (then Marquee Ballroom) where the first-ever live performance by The Rolling Stones took place on the 12 of July 1962.
The Marquee Ballroom, named after the circus style interior decorations, was originally a jazz club in the basement of the Academy Cinema in Oxford Street, at the junction of Poland Street, where dances had been held since the early 1950s. From 1958 Harold Pendleton of the National Jazz Federation took over renting the space. In 1962 the club began a regular R&B night that occasionally featured visiting American musicians such as Muddy Waters. In March 1964 the club moved a short distance to what became its most famous venue on 90 Wardour Street. The Academy Cinema (here in a 1945 picture) was demolished in 1989.
According to the hand written set list you see here, among the numbers performed by The Stones in 1962 were songs by their heroes Jimmy Reed, Elmore James, Chuck Berry and Fats Domino.
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