Malcom McLaren rented this unfurnished flat for Sid Vicious (and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen) in Maida Vale, on the 24th of August 1977.
When he was told that it was only a 7-year lease, Malcolm allegedly replied “That’s fine, he’ll be dead by then…”
Keith Richards lived in this Chelsea flat, on beautiful Cheyne Walk, when – legend has it – his home was burgled in 1974 by teenage Sex shop customers Steve Jones and Wally Nightingale, who were trying to gather some equipment for their pre-Sex Pistols band The Swankers.
A mural commemorating The Clash’s Joe Strummer by Emma Harrison and Gary Loveridge – which was supposed to be permanent – was situated at the junction of Portobello Road and Blenheim Crescent between the 13th of June 2013 and…2017.
Eric Clapton lived on the first floor of this Georgian building in 1967, sharing its facilities with Martin Sharp, a psychedelic poster artist who later that year designed Cream’s Disraeli Gears sleeve, feminist intellectual Germaine Greer, filmmaker Philippe Mora, artist Timothy Whidborne, David Litvinoff, writer Anthony Haden-Guest and Sharp’s friend Robert Whitaker, possibly The Beatles’ preferred photographer.
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