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.

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.

De Lane Lea Studios

Major artists such as The Animals, The Beatles, Soft Machine, Queen, The Rolling Stones, Bee Gees, The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, and Deep Purple recorded songs at the De Lane Lea Studios, but not here in their current location in Soho!

Marquee Studios

The Buzzcocks, Elton John, The Groundhogs, The Clash, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Killing Joke, Daevid Allen, Van Der Graaf Generator, and many others used a homemade studio in the garage at the back of the Marquee Club (in its second incarnation, on Wardour Street) created by Moody Blues’ manager Alex Murray in 1964.

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!

Marquee Club – Part #1

The first-ever live performance by The Rolling Stones? It took place in July 1962 at the legendary Marquee Club, when it was still on Oxford Street and was known as the Marquee Ballroom.

John’s & Paul’s Graffiti by Loretto

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

Henrit’s Drumstore

112 Wardour Street, which is now Printroom, in the 1970s hosted the legendary Henrit’s Drumstore, owned by Bob Henrit, who played with Argent, Roger Daltrey, and The Kinks, in different times of his life.