Studio 51

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.

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.

Ealing Jazz Club

The Ealing Jazz Club was a music venue on The Broadway, Ealing, in the west of London. The club is noteworthy as the place where on 24 March 1962 Charlie Watts first met Brian Jones and then, on 7 April 1962, Alexis Korner introduced Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to Brian Jones.

Deptford Soul City

The first specialist soul records shop in Europe opened here in Deptford of all places, in autumn 1966, the brainchild of “Esperanto-speaking vegan-anarchist” Dave Godin and his pals, David Nathan and Robert Blackmore.