The Roxy

The Roxy was started by Andrew Czezowski, Susan Carrington and Barry Jones in December 1976. The first show, on the 14th of December, was Generation X, a band Czezowski managed. The second on the following night was The Heartbreakers. The third, on 21 December, featured Siouxsie and the Banshees and Generation X. However, it was The Clash and The Heartbreakers that headlined the official gala opening on the 1st of January 1977 – which was filmed by Julien Temple and finally screened on BBC Four on 1 January 2015 as The Clash: New Year’s Day ’77.

Paddington Kitchen

Here, in the basement of the restaurant Paddington Kitchen (now Peking – Seoul), Mick Jones (later in The Clash) and Tony James (later in Generation X) worked on their London SS project in late 1975.

Among the respondents to an ad placed by them in Melody Maker, looking for people who were “into The Dolls, Stooges, and MC5” who wanted to start a band, was the young Steven Morrissey (later just Morrissey, singer of The Smiths) from Manchester.

Marquee Club – Part #2

In March 1964 the Marquee Club moved to its most famous venue at 90 Wardour Street, possibly becoming the most important venue in the history of pop music.

Astoria Theatre

One of London’s greatest and most beloved music venues of all time! Opened in 1927 as a cinema, turned into a theatre between 1976 and 1985, the glorious London Astoria was active as a music venue from the 3rd of August 1987 to the 15th of January 2009 and has since been demolished as part of the