It's not as much a historic location, but one must visit music location in London for me is the vault underneath the Hard Rock Cafe shop. It containes many legendary musical artefacts, like guitars from Hendrix and Les Paul or John Lennons glasses. Just a recommendation for any fellow music nerd visiting London
On Euston Road there is the former home of Capital Radio where songs including Bohemian Rhapsody and Never Gonna Give You Up were first played. Capital is now based in 30 Leicester Square along with every other commercial station in the UK as far as I can tell.
For the (possible!) next instalment… Hoxton Street, where the Verve shot their video for Bitter Sweet Symphony Maida Vale Studios, hundreds of artists have recorded sessions for the BBC there alongside it being home to the Radiophonic Workshop 9 Curzon Place (Flat 12), the flat where both Cass Elliot and Keith Moon died
Great video! I only missed some Kinks-related locations though, like Waterloo Bridge/Station, Archway Tavern or the Clissold Arms, right in front of the Davies family home. By the way, they have a song called Denmark Street!
Thanks David. A couple that pop up are Headley Grange (Led Zeppelin) and Ringo Starr's old house where Judas Priest recorded British Steel. Maybe some of the old clubs - The Cavern, UFO, La Chasse when Jon Anderson and Chris Squire or Yes met.
Another recording studio worth mentioning is Olympic Studios in Barnes, SW London. It’s now a cinema and they show a trailer of The Rolling Stones recording Sympathy for the Devil there and a list of some albums also recorded there (Queen, U2, Led Zeppelin, Madonna, Prince…) with the tagline, Abbey Rd had the Beatles, we had everyone else. It isn’t far from the Marc Bolan shrine mentioned.
The 100 Club at 100 Oxford Street was established as a jazz/swing club by Americans in the 1930s, it was popular with US military during WW2 and has run continuously since then on the same site and a rock venue since 1960s.
A few others I remember are the Clash first album in Camden, Ian Dury's New Boots and Panties on Vauxhall Bridge Rd, and both the Verve Bitter Sweet Symphony and Vindaloo were filmed in Hoxton Street in Hackney. Yeah!
The video for "Come On Eileen" by Dexys Midnight Runners was filmed in Brook Drive. The photo for the cover of "Rise and Fall" by Madness was taken on Primrose Hill. Part of the video of "Wouldn't It Be Good" by Nik Kershaw was filmed in the courtyard of the St. James' Court Hotel. Part of the video of "Fix You" by Coldplay was filmed in Whites Grounds. At the beginning of the video of "Like to Get to Know You Well" you can see Howard Jones walking along the small street on the side of Charing Cross Station.The cover photo of "Absolutely" by Madness was taken outside Chalk Farm Tube Station. Part of the video of "I won't let you down" by Ph.D. was filmed in the Queensway area. The photo showing the The Clash standing on steps was taken in Camden Market. The videos of "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by the Verve and "Vindaloo" by Fat Les were both shot in Hoxton Street.
On Jan 3rd 1963 The Beatles played their first date of their short tour of Scotland at The 2 Red Shoes Ballroom, Elgin, Moray in the North East of Scotland. Only a matter of weeks later Please Please Me was released. Albert Bonici, the Elgin based owner was promoter and the contract included a clause for any subsequent Beatles tours of Scotland. He promoted their Oct 1963 and April 64 tours as a result. Many other notable artists played The 2 Red Shoes including Dusty Springfield, The Who, Pink Floyd, Them, The Small Faces, Cream etc Bonici also promoted the Stones tour of 65 and brought the The Kinks to Elgin Town Hall. The venue later closed in the late 60s and was used for other things and is now a martial arts club.
If you're a music fan in Soho, go to Muphoria Music Art Gallery on Berwick Street, just down the road from the Oasis photo. (Oh and it's pronounced Ber-ick. The W isn't sounded).
Omg babes, how did you know I was going to London this summer? I was already going to abbey road and the hendrix/handel house, but I'vegot to visit the other places too !
Great video as always! the Dublin Castle in Camden is a significant music venue for many bands including Madness, Amy Winehouse and even Coldplay! Incidentally, Madness have a blue plaque on the wall there 😊
Some of the most iconic bands formed in London: The Who, Rolling Stones, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, The Clash... the list goes on...
Thanks for this, I’ve just got home from that part of Baker Street, there’s a really good coffee shop just a few steps down the side street to the right.
Great video. I live in the building in NYC where John and Michelle Phillips wrote California Dreaming. Also not far from many other music landmarks in Greenwich Village, NYC.
Thx for an enjoyable and somewhat nostalgic trip around London. I now feel terribly old, realising that my own six yrs at school in London predates the music-related fame of many of these sites. Btw, unless it's changed since my schooldays (as much has), Berwick Street is pronounced "ber-ik" street.
This has a very Jago Hazzard vibe, with the voiceover over the B roll footage. It was nice to see you cameo at the public piano! Were you recognised when you were walking around acquiring the footage, David?
Brilliant video. I love the way you segue from one location to the next. I knew some of them, having lived in London a while back. You could probably find a few locations related to The Kinks, e.g. Hornsey Town Hall. Otherwise, near me (Bristol) at Aust, Bob Dylan had a very famous picture taken of the soon to be defunct ferry terminal for the Martin Scorsese film No Direction Home. If you're in the area, let me know and I can direct you to the very spot.
I am visiting london in 2026 and Trident Studios is the hotspot on my list as Crime Of The Century by Supertramp was recorded there, and that is my favourite album of all time!
In 2014, in my first time in London, I visited Handel's Museum and (to my surprise at the time also) Hendrix's and Abbey Road. Now I sure have more places to go! 👍
Up in Leicestershire is Castle Donington, which was the site for the Monsters of Rock festivals during the 1980s. These days it hosts the annual Download Festival. If I remember correctly, when Def Leppard first appeared at their Monsters of Rock gig, it was the first performance they had since Rick Allen lost his arm in a car accident.
Been on a rock walk tour of London and been to a few of those places. Maybe check out Kingly Street (the one parallel to Carnaby Street). Quite a couple of important blue plaques there too.
Chiswick House in West London where the Beatles made the promotional films for Rain and Paperback Writer. I'm also thinking that the 100 club is a big one for all kinds of music but perhaps especially punk. Then there is the Royal Albert Hall for completely different reasons.
The former Island/SARM recording studio located on Basing Street is also famous. Stairway to Heaven has been recorded there and Bob Marley lived in a flat above for a while.
Marquee Club and Hyde Park maybe? Important starting places for several bands, mainly thinking about King Crimson playing live before the release of their first album.
i live next to Albany Rd, Coventry where they’ve recently put up plaques to mark the 2-Tone movement. The Specials formed in a house on this road and it’s within a few minutes walk of the former Rocket pub and former Horizon Studios where the scene developed in the late 70s
Would you be interested in making a video like “chord progressions that dominate the kpop indsusrty” ? I think you’ll find a lot of the chord progressions in kpop to be quite interesting! A lot of jazzy and classical chords and progressions used
Top work as always David. Highbury and Islington area has some rich pickings... Furlong Road where the real life events inspiring Someone Saved My Life Tonight occurred. Very short walk to 103 Holloway Road where Spandau Ballet first performed. Keep walking towards the Emirates stadium and to Benwell Road where John Lydon grew up. Back to Holloway road and at 103 is I daresay the most tragic of locations you'll encounter. The space where a few fabulous pop records were made by Joe Meek before he murdered his landlady and then shot himself.
Nice one. A few other notable current or former studios are the former Decca studios in West Hampstead where the Beatles were rejected in 1962, RAK studios in St John's Wood where a number of great records were recorded, Air Studios in Hampstead, founded by Beatles producer George Martin, and Island/Sarm West studios where the likes of Bob Marley recorded, plus the Band Aid record.
Notable Venues are easy wins, for theatre-sized rock venues it would have to Hammersmith Apollo (formerly Odeon) . Royal Albert Hall generally for music but many Rock bands have played there including Cream and Led Zep.
Woww I’ll be in England in a few months and I've always thought of visiting some of these music related places! Thank you so much for making this video🤍just subscribed:)
It is in very good shape. They renewed the whole area in the last couple of years. Now there are lots of restaurants, offices, movie theatre, etc. there. Nice area.
In London I *had* to go to Islington and walk Britannia Row. That's where Pink Floyd owned a studio, and they recorded Animals there, but that's not why I went. It was because of New Order. There they recorded "Blue Monday," "Bizarre Love Triangle," and (as Joy Division) Closer. (Hooky mentioned that studio in an interview, and I couldn't pass up at least a walk down the street.)
In Harrow where the Railway Tavern used to be, there are flats that are named after each member of The Who because they used to play there a lot and it was the first place that Townsend smashed a guitar
A video (series) about sites like this around greater Britain would be fantastic. The Cavern Club, Mapleduram Mill (Black Sabbath cover), and Boleskine House (Jimmy Page/Aleister Crowley) all come to mind.
Really great idea! I'm already looking forward to the second part, when you show the location of at least one Madness video. Maybe the Dublin Castle in Camden (My Girl). Would be nice! :)
Kingly Street, Soho “Bag O Nails “ (and other cool nightclubs) where the 1960s creative types met up. Hendrix was first introduced to the established rockers.
Meanwhile, here in the Midwest: "That cornfield is where I got drunk and watched a meteor shower. Not far down the road from another cornfield where I saw a twister. Just a stone's throw away from another cornfield I got drunk in and watched a different meteor shower."
Theres is a number of iconic locations in the Midwest: Surf's Ballroom in Iowa, bunch of places in Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Detroit, Cleveland and Cincinnati.
PWL Studios - The Hit Factory of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, The Vine Yard off Sanctuary Street. Many hits of Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Sinitta, Steps, Rick Astley and Sonia were recorded there between 1984-1991.
The Crown pub in Birmingham was just made into a grade II listed building to preserve it from being taken over by property developers after a petition from locals. It's where Black Sabbath had their first concert and thus, legend has it, where heavy metal was born.
Thank you so much for the musical sight-seeing of London! Wasn't the Marquee Club in London one of the starting points of many a musical career? Also, Madame Tussaud's is a place where you can find many celebrities in wax.
You'd mentioned Mozart and Handel, but how could you not mention Arthur Sullivan? Okay, granted, it's arguable that he's better known for work in musical *theatre* than for music itself. But the works he created with W.S. Gilbert are such a large part of British culture...
Arthur Sullivan was born in London and lived for many years in Victoria St, although the building was demolished. The profits from the operas paid for the Savoy Theatre - perhaps slightly more of a landmark than the alley round the back. Sullivan was the pre-eminent Britsh composer of the 19th century whose output extended beyond the collaboration with Gilbert. His memorial statue is on the embankment - one of the few to musicians (of any genre) in London. There is even a recording of him speaking at a dinner party in 1888 when he wonders whether the new recording technology will lead to a permanent record of much bad music. Now there's a thought.
I always thought the cover of Animals was a dystopian painting ☠️
No, it's a dystopian photograph.
I thought the same about Two Virgins
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Yes, a very depressing looking album cover.
... but now everybody knows the flying pig was real, because it was in the news.
My wife and i will be visiting London in May. Thanks for the video, we'll be sure to check these places out.
😊 enjoy!
OMG I JUST REALISED THAT YOU MISSED A MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY TO RICKROLL US! The music video was filmed around Freston Rd
That would have been great 😂
I’m from the US but when I was 19 I went to the UK and visited almost all these places (especially the Pink Floyd ones, I was obsessed with them)
3:10 the sudden emotional response to seeing that building I can't satisfactorily describe.
It's not as much a historic location, but one must visit music location in London for me is the vault underneath the Hard Rock Cafe shop. It containes many legendary musical artefacts, like guitars from Hendrix and Les Paul or John Lennons glasses. Just a recommendation for any fellow music nerd visiting London
I've never been in UK but however funny, naive or innocent it would sound I feel like I love everything about it
You'd hate it once you're here x
@@adonaiyah2196 everything has its good and bad sides but I'd undoubtedly prefer UK rather than Russia (yea, I'm russian)
Fantastic David. Please do a part 2, adding the famous clubs where bands got their start. I am planning a London trip just to see these locations.
oo, YES..like UFO Club 👁️
Ealing Club location where Rolling Stones, Who, Yardbirds etc started. Was birthplace of British blues
Olympic Studios in Barnes is another place to visit. Tons of albums were recorded there. Now it is a great restaurant and cinema.
I'm an Expat living in Cali, brings back a lot of memories of work and play. Thanks
He's an expat in relation to a video about the UK. Otherwise he could be an immigrant from all manner of places.
On Euston Road there is the former home of Capital Radio where songs including Bohemian Rhapsody and Never Gonna Give You Up were first played. Capital is now based in 30 Leicester Square along with every other commercial station in the UK as far as I can tell.
LMAO
I used to work nearby and used to pop in to buy the odd t-shirt!
Not to forget number fifty-seven Wimpole Street, where Paul Mcartney was living with Jane Asher when he wrote the song yesterday.
The timing couldn't be more perfect for me. I'm about to go visit the UK from Mexico in a few weeks :D
Fantastic!
I love the Handel/Hendrix house! Great vibe!
For the (possible!) next instalment…
Hoxton Street, where the Verve shot their video for Bitter Sweet Symphony
Maida Vale Studios, hundreds of artists have recorded sessions for the BBC there alongside it being home to the Radiophonic Workshop
9 Curzon Place (Flat 12), the flat where both Cass Elliot and Keith Moon died
I stumbled across the Bob Marley house on Oakley Street while walking back from Battersea station :) Was a nice find.
If I ever go to the UK, which is one my dreams, I'll definitely go to these places. Thanks David lml
Great video! I only missed some Kinks-related locations though, like Waterloo Bridge/Station, Archway Tavern or the Clissold Arms, right in front of the Davies family home. By the way, they have a song called Denmark Street!
Poor Kinks, Always ignored and never the spotlight on anything 😢
Thanks David. A couple that pop up are Headley Grange (Led Zeppelin) and Ringo Starr's old house where Judas Priest recorded British Steel.
Maybe some of the old clubs - The Cavern, UFO, La Chasse when Jon Anderson and Chris Squire or Yes met.
Another recording studio worth mentioning is Olympic Studios in Barnes, SW London. It’s now a cinema and they show a trailer of The Rolling Stones recording Sympathy for the Devil there and a list of some albums also recorded there (Queen, U2, Led Zeppelin, Madonna, Prince…) with the tagline, Abbey Rd had the Beatles, we had everyone else.
It isn’t far from the Marc Bolan shrine mentioned.
Eagles also
The 100 Club at 100 Oxford Street was established as a jazz/swing club by Americans in the 1930s, it was popular with US military during WW2 and has run continuously since then on the same site and a rock venue since 1960s.
Also take notice of the Ealing Blues Club plaque just outside of Ealing Broadway station
A few others I remember are the Clash first album in Camden, Ian Dury's New Boots and Panties on Vauxhall Bridge Rd, and both the Verve Bitter Sweet Symphony and Vindaloo were filmed in Hoxton Street in Hackney. Yeah!
39 Gerrard Street, Chinatown where Led Zeppelin was formed in 1968. The Ealing Club location - birthplace of British blues. So many great locations.
The video for "Come On Eileen" by Dexys Midnight Runners was filmed in Brook Drive. The photo for the cover of "Rise and Fall" by Madness was taken on Primrose Hill. Part of the video of "Wouldn't It Be Good" by Nik Kershaw was filmed in the courtyard of the St. James' Court Hotel. Part of the video of "Fix You" by Coldplay was filmed in Whites Grounds. At the beginning of the video of "Like to Get to Know You Well" you can see Howard Jones walking along the small street on the side of Charing Cross Station.The cover photo of "Absolutely" by Madness was taken outside Chalk Farm Tube Station. Part of the video of "I won't let you down" by Ph.D. was filmed in the Queensway area. The photo showing the The Clash standing on steps was taken in Camden Market. The videos of "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by the Verve and "Vindaloo" by Fat Les were both shot in Hoxton Street.
On Jan 3rd 1963 The Beatles played their first date of their short tour of Scotland at The 2 Red Shoes Ballroom, Elgin, Moray in the North East of Scotland. Only a matter of weeks later Please Please Me was released.
Albert Bonici, the Elgin based owner was promoter and the contract included a clause for any subsequent Beatles tours of Scotland. He promoted their Oct 1963 and April 64 tours as a result.
Many other notable artists played The 2 Red Shoes including Dusty Springfield, The Who, Pink Floyd, Them, The Small Faces, Cream etc
Bonici also promoted the Stones tour of 65 and brought the The Kinks to Elgin Town Hall.
The venue later closed in the late 60s and was used for other things and is now a martial arts club.
If you're a music fan in Soho, go to Muphoria Music Art Gallery on Berwick Street, just down the road from the Oasis photo. (Oh and it's pronounced Ber-ick. The W isn't sounded).
Cool that Elgar opened whats now called Abby Road studio
Omg babes, how did you know I was going to London this summer? I was already going to abbey road and the hendrix/handel house, but I'vegot to visit the other places too !
Great video as always! the Dublin Castle in Camden is a significant music venue for many bands including Madness, Amy Winehouse and even Coldplay! Incidentally, Madness have a blue plaque on the wall there 😊
this is just wonderful, thank you for this David!
Some of the most iconic bands formed in London: The Who, Rolling Stones, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, The Clash... the list goes on...
Thank you for the tour! 😊
Thanks for this, I’ve just got home from that part of Baker Street, there’s a really good coffee shop just a few steps down the side street to the right.
Great video. I live in the building in NYC where John and Michelle Phillips wrote California Dreaming. Also not far from many other music landmarks in Greenwich Village, NYC.
Thx for an enjoyable and somewhat nostalgic trip around London. I now feel terribly old, realising that my own six yrs at school in London predates the music-related fame of many of these sites. Btw, unless it's changed since my schooldays (as much has), Berwick Street is pronounced "ber-ik" street.
This has a very Jago Hazzard vibe, with the voiceover over the B roll footage. It was nice to see you cameo at the public piano! Were you recognised when you were walking around acquiring the footage, David?
Thank you! I also cameoed in the very first shot as I crossed abbey road
@@DavidBennettPiano I hope you weren't harassed by any Chinese people when you were playing at the public piano!
Thank you for the London music tour 😊
Brilliant video. I love the way you segue from one location to the next. I knew some of them, having lived in London a while back. You could probably find a few locations related to The Kinks, e.g. Hornsey Town Hall. Otherwise, near me (Bristol) at Aust, Bob Dylan had a very famous picture taken of the soon to be defunct ferry terminal for the Martin Scorsese film No Direction Home. If you're in the area, let me know and I can direct you to the very spot.
Thank you for such an eye opening and interesting video, I'd love to check out these locations. Thank You David 🤘
Glad you liked it 😊
That was fun, David, thanks!
I am visiting london in 2026 and Trident Studios is the hotspot on my list as Crime Of The Century by Supertramp was recorded there, and that is my favourite album of all time!
In 2014, in my first time in London, I visited Handel's Museum and (to my surprise at the time also) Hendrix's and Abbey Road. Now I sure have more places to go! 👍
Up in Leicestershire is Castle Donington, which was the site for the Monsters of Rock festivals during the 1980s. These days it hosts the annual Download Festival. If I remember correctly, when Def Leppard first appeared at their Monsters of Rock gig, it was the first performance they had since Rick Allen lost his arm in a car accident.
Don't forget Joe Meek's flat and recording "studio" at 304 Holloway Road. It has a black marker.
Been on a rock walk tour of London and been to a few of those places. Maybe check out Kingly Street (the one parallel to Carnaby Street). Quite a couple of important blue plaques there too.
4:28 I can't help but think of the Holy Hand Grenade when I hear this. Any Worms fans about?
I remember that 😂 love that game!
@@DavidBennettPiano HAAAAALLEUJAH!!! *_BOOM!!!_*
Chiswick House in West London where the Beatles made the promotional films for Rain and Paperback Writer. I'm also thinking that the 100 club is a big one for all kinds of music but perhaps especially punk. Then there is the Royal Albert Hall for completely different reasons.
Been there, did the cross walk barefoot, left a note on the wall….made me feel so happy…
Grantham station gents toilet! Damon albarn was inspired to write charmless man by some graffiti he saw in the gents loo!!
Hammersmith - grounds of Chiswick House where Beatles filmed promo video for Paperback Writer.
The former Island/SARM recording studio located on Basing Street is also famous.
Stairway to Heaven has been recorded there and Bob Marley lived in a flat above for a while.
Marquee Club and Hyde Park maybe? Important starting places for several bands, mainly thinking about King Crimson playing live before the release of their first album.
Thanks, when I visit London I rewatch this video!
I really enjoyed this, cool to learn about the real locations, especially for iconic albums like Animals and Morning Glory
Now I want to get back to London ASAP! Great video, David.
Syd Barratt lived in a flat in the seven dials area ( just above Orcs nest) It also has a blue plaque.
i live next to Albany Rd, Coventry where they’ve recently put up plaques to mark the 2-Tone movement.
The Specials formed in a house on this road and it’s within a few minutes walk of the former Rocket pub and former Horizon Studios where the scene developed in the late 70s
Loved this. It felt like having a personal tour guide.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Man what a great video. Totally loved it. London, what a great city. Maybe one day I will get there....more please...!
Hugs from Brazil 🎉 Hope one day i will visit London and Britain.
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Eagles recorded their first album in Olympic Studios at Barnes, London and second album at Island Studios in Basing Street, London
Would you be interested in making a video like “chord progressions that dominate the kpop indsusrty” ? I think you’ll find a lot of the chord progressions in kpop to be quite interesting! A lot of jazzy and classical chords and progressions used
I remember purchasing the “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?” album, which had just come out, and I always liked the cover very much!
1 Kew Road in Richmond where the old Crawdaddy Club was situated. It’s where the stones played their early gigs
Amazing idea! I'd love to see more cities
Oh so cool! It would be very fun to visit that studio.
I hope to visit Berwick St. one day!
Top work as always David. Highbury and Islington area has some rich pickings... Furlong Road where the real life events inspiring Someone Saved My Life Tonight occurred. Very short walk to 103 Holloway Road where Spandau Ballet first performed. Keep walking towards the Emirates stadium and to Benwell Road where John Lydon grew up. Back to Holloway road and at 103 is I daresay the most tragic of locations you'll encounter. The space where a few fabulous pop records were made by Joe Meek before he murdered his landlady and then shot himself.
This is a fabulous round up. I need to hit them up next time in back in Blighty, especially the Bolan shrine
Fantastic video! Next time I can make it down to London, im definitely going to check some of these out!
Nice one. A few other notable current or former studios are the former Decca studios in West Hampstead where the Beatles were rejected in 1962, RAK studios in St John's Wood where a number of great records were recorded, Air Studios in Hampstead, founded by Beatles producer George Martin, and Island/Sarm West studios where the likes of Bob Marley recorded, plus the Band Aid record.
I got showed around the battersea power station before they’d opened the skylift and went up it for free, it was brilliant
I’ve played many a guitar and actually bought a couple from Regent Sounds. Probably my most favourite guitar shop!
Notable Venues are easy wins, for theatre-sized rock venues it would have to Hammersmith Apollo (formerly Odeon) . Royal Albert Hall generally for music but many Rock bands have played there including Cream and Led Zep.
Woww I’ll be in England in a few months and I've always thought of visiting some of these music related places! Thank you so much for making this video🤍just subscribed:)
I would LOVE to see the Battersea Power Station. That's the cover of the greatest album ever recorded.
It is in very good shape. They renewed the whole area in the last couple of years. Now there are lots of restaurants, offices, movie theatre, etc. there. Nice area.
In London I *had* to go to Islington and walk Britannia Row. That's where Pink Floyd owned a studio, and they recorded Animals there, but that's not why I went. It was because of New Order. There they recorded "Blue Monday," "Bizarre Love Triangle," and (as Joy Division) Closer. (Hooky mentioned that studio in an interview, and I couldn't pass up at least a walk down the street.)
In Harrow where the Railway Tavern used to be, there are flats that are named after each member of The Who because they used to play there a lot and it was the first place that Townsend smashed a guitar
Excellent. Keep that up.
A video (series) about sites like this around greater Britain would be fantastic. The Cavern Club, Mapleduram Mill (Black Sabbath cover), and Boleskine House (Jimmy Page/Aleister Crowley) all come to mind.
Great tour
Really great idea! I'm already looking forward to the second part, when you show the location of at least one Madness video. Maybe the Dublin Castle in Camden (My Girl). Would be nice! :)
That's poet and writer Allen Ginsberg ("Howl") in the background in the Dylan video at 8:50.
Crosby Stills and Nash write a lot of their best-known tracks in their London flat in Moscow Road (around the back of Whiteleys store)
Kingly Street, Soho “Bag O Nails “ (and other cool nightclubs) where the 1960s creative types met up. Hendrix was first introduced to the established rockers.
Meanwhile, here in the Midwest:
"That cornfield is where I got drunk and watched a meteor shower. Not far down the road from another cornfield where I saw a twister. Just a stone's throw away from another cornfield I got drunk in and watched a different meteor shower."
Theres is a number of iconic locations in the Midwest: Surf's Ballroom in Iowa, bunch of places in Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Detroit, Cleveland and Cincinnati.
Damn, I went to London three months ago. I wish this video had come out soooner :(
Paul and John wrote many songs at the Asher residence, 57 Wimpole Street. Can you add that to your next video? Thank you! Really enjoyed this!
PWL Studios - The Hit Factory of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, The Vine Yard off Sanctuary Street. Many hits of Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Sinitta, Steps, Rick Astley and Sonia were recorded there between 1984-1991.
Battersea Power Station is also the background of an enormously influential DnB record; “Power Ballads” by London Elektricity.
Garden Lodge will always be an important place to me. I can only imagine the goings on there by Freddie and the rest.
The Crown pub in Birmingham was just made into a grade II listed building to preserve it from being taken over by property developers after a petition from locals. It's where Black Sabbath had their first concert and thus, legend has it, where heavy metal was born.
Thank you so much for the musical sight-seeing of London! Wasn't the Marquee Club in London one of the starting points of many a musical career? Also, Madame Tussaud's is a place where you can find many celebrities in wax.
What's your opinion on the Beatles attractions in Liverpool? Is there a video?
Some more notes for Denmark Street: No 6 was where the Sex Pistols rehearsed (and lived sometimes), and No 7 was where Hipgnosis were based.
1 Logan Pl, Kensington
Dam I wish this video was around when I was in London years ago
Make a video explaining why UK sucks at Eurovision. How is it possible with such a talented people and such a rich musical history?
we have a rich musical history in rock music much more so than pop music. our pop stars are generally quite terrible, especially right now
You'd mentioned Mozart and Handel, but how could you not mention Arthur Sullivan? Okay, granted, it's arguable that he's better known for work in musical *theatre* than for music itself. But the works he created with W.S. Gilbert are such a large part of British culture...
Arthur Sullivan was born in London and lived for many years in Victoria St, although the building was demolished. The profits from the operas paid for the Savoy Theatre - perhaps slightly more of a landmark than the alley round the back. Sullivan was the pre-eminent Britsh composer of the 19th century whose output extended beyond the collaboration with Gilbert. His memorial statue is on the embankment - one of the few to musicians (of any genre) in London. There is even a recording of him speaking at a dinner party in 1888 when he wonders whether the new recording technology will lead to a permanent record of much bad music. Now there's a thought.
i wish you had made this video when i was in london a few months ago 😢 i only saw abbey road and saville row