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
Another location you could mention 304 Holloway Road. This was the recording studio / home owned by Joe meek . Where the first us number 1 by a British band was recorded telstar by the tordos as well as John Leyton's "Johnny Remember Me" and the Honeycombs' "Have I the Right?" as well as where screaming lord such of the monster raving loney party recorded music. Also joe meek turned down the beatles
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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 😊
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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 !
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.
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.
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).
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!
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 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
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.
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.
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
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:)
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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! :)
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 EMS VCS 3 synthesizer was developed by Electronic Music Studios, based in Putney. Used by Pink Floyd, The Who, Brian Eno… Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park. Legendary venue. On a vacation trip to London I saw Captain Beefheart and Spirit there, the same week. (Yeah I’m old, so what?) The guitarist of Spirit, “Randy California”, played lead guitar in one of Jimi Hendrix´s early bands! He also wrote Taurus, allegedly "borrowed" by Jimmy Page and published as Stairway To Heaven. Virgin Records original shop, one flight of stairs up from Tottenham Court Road, was a given stop on my London adventure. At the time they mostly sold cut-outs and other forms of budget records. The HMV shop, a Big record store, was another given. The Who played Maximum R&B at The Marquee at 90 Wardour Street. As did a lot of other great bands. Someone mentioned The Kinks. I’m not sure if Dead End Street actually is in London, but I always pictured it that way. Piccadilly Cirkus is a Swedish song, so I won’t blame you for that omission 😉 I'm sure I'll think of other examples 🎼"There are places I'll remember..."🎶 Thanks for all the high-class infotainment. Always a pleasure watching your stuff.
Excellent - you got all the main ones! The suburb of Beckenham was where David Bowie composed Life on Mars (on the steps of the bandstand, which I think is no longer there) and where he organised the festival which gave rise to his song Memory of a Free Festival. In Denmark St there is also the sheet music shop, where Mick Jagger used to run off to during recordings to find material for their early albums, just over the road from Regent Studios. I don't know if the wall still exists where someone wrote "Eric Clapton is God", but if so it would warrant a mention! Also, you could do a video about the various places mentioned in songs, like Waterloo Sunset, or A-Bomb in Wardour Street (by the Jam). There's the shop where Clapton bought his Les Paul, now a Tex-Mex restaurant on Charing Cross Rd, and various famous music venues. I wonder if the Beeb would let you in for a tour of whichever part of their empire those various sessions were recorded which have been released on CD years later (Bowie and Hendrix, eg)?
And I just remembered, during the dictatorship in their country, two very important Brazilian musicians lived in exile in Notting Hill. Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. The singer Gal Costa visited them and took their latest songs back home to record. "London, London" is one of them.
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.
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.
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?
Another one for you is on the corner of Curzon Street and Curzon Square in Mayfair, formerly owned by Harry Nillson and where both Keith Moon and Mama Cass died.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Another location you could mention 304 Holloway Road. This was the recording studio / home owned by Joe meek . Where the first us number 1 by a British band was recorded telstar by the tordos as well as John Leyton's "Johnny Remember Me" and the Honeycombs' "Have I the Right?" as well as where screaming lord such of the monster raving loney party recorded music. Also joe meek turned down the beatles
I was going to mention this too. He also killed his landlady & then himself in the address.
Another mention for Holloway Road. Worth watching the Telstar movie and the BBC Arena documentary on Joe Meek
Joe Meek was incredibly influential, pioneering many production techniques that are common today, a very bad omission from the video.
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)
Olympic Studios in Barnes is another place to visit. Tons of albums were recorded there. Now it is a great restaurant and cinema.
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!
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!
If I ever go to the UK, which is one my dreams, I'll definitely go to these places. Thanks David lml
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.
Not to forget number fifty-seven Wimpole Street, where Paul Mcartney was living with Jane Asher when he wrote the song yesterday.
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!
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 love the Handel/Hendrix house! Great vibe!
39 Gerrard Street, Chinatown where Led Zeppelin was formed in 1968. The Ealing Club location - birthplace of British blues. So many great locations.
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.
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 😊
I stumbled across the Bob Marley house on Oakley Street while walking back from Battersea station :) Was a nice find.
this is just wonderful, thank you for this David!
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.
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 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.
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
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 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.
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 !
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 😊
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.
Cool that Elgar opened whats now called Abby Road studio
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! 👍
Thank you for the tour! 😊
I really enjoyed this, cool to learn about the real locations, especially for iconic albums like Animals and Morning Glory
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.
That was fun, David, thanks!
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).
Now I want to get back to London ASAP! Great video, David.
Man what a great video. Totally loved it. London, what a great city. Maybe one day I will get there....more please...!
Syd Barratt lived in a flat in the seven dials area ( just above Orcs nest) It also has a blue plaque.
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...
Don't forget Joe Meek's flat and recording "studio" at 304 Holloway Road. It has a black marker.
I remember purchasing the “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?” album, which had just come out, and I always liked the cover very much!
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.
Hammersmith - grounds of Chiswick House where Beatles filmed promo video for Paperback Writer.
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.
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.
Been there, did the cross walk barefoot, left a note on the wall….made me feel so happy…
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.
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 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!
Hugs from Brazil 🎉 Hope one day i will visit London and Britain.
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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 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
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.
1 Kew Road in Richmond where the old Crawdaddy Club was situated. It’s where the stones played their early gigs
Loved this. It felt like having a personal tour guide.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for the London music tour 😊
I got showed around the battersea power station before they’d opened the skylift and went up it for free, it was brilliant
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.
Eagles recorded their first album in Olympic Studios at Barnes, London and second album at Island Studios in Basing Street, London
This is a fabulous round up. I need to hit them up next time in back in Blighty, especially the Bolan shrine
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!!!_*
Amazing idea! I'd love to see more cities
I’ve played many a guitar and actually bought a couple from Regent Sounds. Probably my most favourite guitar shop!
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
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:)
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.
That's poet and writer Allen Ginsberg ("Howl") in the background in the Dylan video at 8:50.
Thanks, when I visit London I rewatch this video!
Fantastic video! Next time I can make it down to London, im definitely going to check some of these out!
Grantham station gents toilet! Damon albarn was inspired to write charmless man by some graffiti he saw in the gents loo!!
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.
Oh so cool! It would be very fun to visit that studio.
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)
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.
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.)
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! :)
Battersea Power Station is also the background of an enormously influential DnB record; “Power Ballads” by London Elektricity.
I hope to visit Berwick St. one day!
i wish you had made this video when i was in london a few months ago 😢 i only saw abbey road and saville row
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.
Garden Lodge will always be an important place to me. I can only imagine the goings on there by Freddie and the rest.
Damn, I went to London three months ago. I wish this video had come out soooner :(
Excellent. Keep that up.
The EMS VCS 3 synthesizer was developed by Electronic Music Studios, based in Putney.
Used by Pink Floyd, The Who, Brian Eno…
Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park.
Legendary venue.
On a vacation trip to London I saw Captain Beefheart and Spirit there, the same week.
(Yeah I’m old, so what?)
The guitarist of Spirit, “Randy California”, played lead guitar in one of Jimi Hendrix´s early bands!
He also wrote Taurus, allegedly "borrowed" by Jimmy Page and published as Stairway To Heaven.
Virgin Records original shop,
one flight of stairs up from Tottenham Court Road,
was a given stop on my London adventure.
At the time they mostly sold cut-outs and other forms of budget records.
The HMV shop, a Big record store, was another given.
The Who played Maximum R&B at The Marquee at 90 Wardour Street.
As did a lot of other great bands.
Someone mentioned The Kinks.
I’m not sure if Dead End Street actually is in London,
but I always pictured it that way.
Piccadilly Cirkus is a Swedish song,
so I won’t blame you for that omission 😉
I'm sure I'll think of other examples
🎼"There are places I'll remember..."🎶
Thanks for all the high-class infotainment.
Always a pleasure watching your stuff.
Woops!
Almost forgot: Caravan, Blind Dog at St. Dunstans.
Wow, that was close. Puuhh.
Excellent - you got all the main ones! The suburb of Beckenham was where David Bowie composed Life on Mars (on the steps of the bandstand, which I think is no longer there) and where he organised the festival which gave rise to his song Memory of a Free Festival. In Denmark St there is also the sheet music shop, where Mick Jagger used to run off to during recordings to find material for their early albums, just over the road from Regent Studios. I don't know if the wall still exists where someone wrote "Eric Clapton is God", but if so it would warrant a mention! Also, you could do a video about the various places mentioned in songs, like Waterloo Sunset, or A-Bomb in Wardour Street (by the Jam). There's the shop where Clapton bought his Les Paul, now a Tex-Mex restaurant on Charing Cross Rd, and various famous music venues. I wonder if the Beeb would let you in for a tour of whichever part of their empire those various sessions were recorded which have been released on CD years later (Bowie and Hendrix, eg)?
And I just remembered, during the dictatorship in their country, two very important Brazilian musicians lived in exile in Notting Hill. Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. The singer Gal Costa visited them and took their latest songs back home to record. "London, London" is one of them.
Great tour
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.
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!
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.
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!
Another one for you is on the corner of Curzon Street and Curzon Square in Mayfair, formerly owned by Harry Nillson and where both Keith Moon and Mama Cass died.
Made a very nice change from the recent tsunami of 'chord' videos!
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.
Great idea for a video! Wish I'd had this when I was in London last year. 😀
Maybe do one for Liverpool at some point, if possible?
I did one for Liverpool before actually 😊
@@DavidBennettPiano Whoops, I'll have to go back and check that out!
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