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Cover - The Visitors
Skansen is an open-air museum and zoological park, located on the island of Djurgården, a royal park near the centre of Stockholm in Sweden. Rune S&…
↳ Skansen, Stockholm
The Laundrette where Annabella Lwin was discovered
Shamrock Express Cleaners is a laundrette in the area of West Hampstead, in north west London. In the summer of 1980, fourteen year old Anglo-Burmese Anna…
↳ 210 West End Lane
Tin Pan Alley
Denmark Street is a short narrow road in central London, famous for it's connections with British popular music, and is known as the British Tin Pan Alley…
↳ Denmark Street
Site of Paul‘s and Ringo‘s weddings
The Marylebone Register Office is today known as the Westminster register office, it is responsible for performing and registering all civil (non-r…
↳ Marylebone Registry Office
Bill Wyman‘s cafe
In 1989, former bassist of the Rolling Stones Bill Wyman opened a rock 'n roll-theme bistro serving American cuisine. It's also full of Rolling Stones mem…
↳ Sticky Fingers Cafe
Arthur Dooley‘s Fab Four statue
This sculpture - created by local artist Arthur Dooley in 1974 - is mounted on the wall above the Mood Indigo bar. The Beatles are shown as four cherubs m…
↳ Liverpool
Cover - The Queen is Dead
In 1986 pop band The Smiths posed in front of the club for the inside cover of their album The Queen Is Dead (the photograph was taken by pop photographer…
↳ Salfords lads club
Magistrates‘ Court
Marylebone Road Magistrates' Court is one of the three Magistrates' Courts of the central region of Greater London, along with City of Westminster Magistr…
↳ 22 Great Marlborough Street
The Cradle of Punk
In 1971 Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood opened their first shop at 430 King's Road in London, it was called 'Let It Rock'. In 1974 the shop w…
↳ 430 Kings Road
Mick Jaggers school
The London School of Economics is a college of the University of London in London, England. It was founded in 1895. Mick Jagger was a student here …
↳ London School of Economics
Mick Jagger‘s home 1965-1966
In the spring of 1965, Mick Jagger moved into a small mews house at 13a Bryanston Mews East, to live alone for the first time. He had spent a couple of ye…
↳ 13A Bryanstone Mews East
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