Don Arden’s Offices

Here, at at 52-55 Carnaby Street, once were Don Arden’s offices. Small Faces’ Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston arrived on 7 June 1965 and met Arden at 10am to discuss a management contract. After some discussions, they were offered £20 a week, a percentage of record sales and an account at all the major shops on Carnaby Street.

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.

The Stage

Here at 47 Bermondsey Street in “a dingy warehouse with a rehearsal room in it”, as Pink Floyd‘s David Gilmour described it, The Rolling Stones’ eighth studio album, Let It Bleed, was first recorded as a demo tape. The building was leased by the Stones’ co-founder Ian Andrew Robert Stewart ‘Stu’ for five years from