Behind this unassuming door at 10 Great Newport Street, once was the glorious Studio 51, famous for its Ken Colyer Club. It’s here where, when Rhythm and Blues took over in the ‘60s, Eric Clapton played his first gig with The Yardbirds and where The Beatles gifted The Rolling Stones with their first big hit, I Wanna Be Your Man.
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The Borderline
The Borderline was an intimate Soho basement venue that, since 1985, has hosted the likes of Debbie Harry, Rage Against the Machine, Pearl Jam (4th of February 1992), Blur (8th of January 1990), PJ Harvey (22nd of October 1991), R.E.M. (two days after the release of Out Of Time), The Verve (30th of January 1992), Jeff Buckley (15th of March 1994), Muse, Ben Harper, Amy Winehouse, Lenny Kravitz, Oasis, Mick Jagger, Sheryl Crow and Eric Clapton.
The Flamingo Club
Acts who played at the Flamingo’s in the 1960’s included John Mayall, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Cream, Pink Floyd, The Small Faces, and many others.
Saville Theatre
The Saville Theatre was leased by The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein for use as a music venue in 1965. Cream, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Jeff Beck, Traffic, Fairport Convention, The Incredible String Band and The Bee Gees are amongst those who performed here.
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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