Between 1978 and 1981 Johnny Rotten/John Lydon lived here in Chelsea where he created his new band PiL. Jah Wobble and legendary DJ Don Letts were both regular visitors.
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Chelsea Cloisters
Syd Barrett lived into number 902, a large 2 bedroom apartment on the ninth floor, here at the Chelsea Cloisters, off Kings Road in South Kensington since 1973, when Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen moved in one of the ‘cockroach-infested’ flats in June 1977.
Keith Richard’s Chelsea Flat
Keith Richards lived in this Chelsea flat, on beautiful Cheyne Walk, when – legend has it – his home was burgled in 1974 by teenage Sex shop customers Steve Jones and Wally Nightingale, who were trying to gather some equipment for their pre-Sex Pistols band The Swankers.
The Pheasantry
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.
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