The 100 Club

In September 1976, the 100 Club (which had operated since 1942 as Feldman Swing Club) played host to the first international punk festival, which helped push the new punk movement into the mainstream. The Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Clash, Buzzcocks, The Jam, The Stranglers, and The Damned all played at this event.

Yoko’s and John’s Flat

In 2010, Yoko Ono unveiled a blue marker plaque at the site of this flat, where she and John Lennon lived for about three months (from the 21st of June 1968) and took the photograph that would become the cover of their Two Virgins album. Many things happened here…

The Scotch of St. James

On the 24th of September 1966 Jimi Hendrix arrived in England for the first time and joined the house band for an impromptu session on stage at The Scotch of St. James. At the the height of 1960s swinging London the venue served as a historically significant meeting place for London’s rock elite.

Bag O’ Nails

In the 60s the Bag O’ Nails hosted an early gig by the Jimi Hendrix Experience (Jimi’s second official gig in London, on the 25th of November 1966), among many others, but it’s also the place where Paul McCartney met his future wife Linda Eastman on the 15th of May 1967.

The Beatles’ Rooftop Concert

The last public performance by The Beatles? Right here in Mayfair on the roof of the Apple Corps building, on Thursday 30th of January 1969, with keyboardist Billy Preston!

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.

Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club

Ronnie Scott’s is the jazz club Jimi Hendrix played his guitar in public for the last time, on the 16th of September 1970.

But this is not the only fact that connects it to rock and roll!

His Master’s Voice

The first dedicated HMV shop opened in 1921 and remained there until 2000, to move and come back again in 2013. Hendrix was a customer. A 78rpm demo of The Beatles was cut in the store’s recording studio in 1962!

John’s & Paul’s Graffiti by Loretto

Is John Lennon’s & Paul McCartney’s graffiti in Soho a little inconsistent?

Tower Bridge

“People pass me by on my imaginary street Ordinary people, it’s impossible to meet Holding conversations that are always incomplete“ In 1978 the world famous Tower Bridge featured in the background of The Wings‘ 6th album, London Town. The record, the second last of Sir Paul with the band, wasn’t a huge success as their