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The failed Beatles audition
Regrettable decisions haunt us all, but for Dick Rowe his judgment here one New Year's Day was to earn him the unenviable title of the man who turned down…
↳ Decca studios
Eddie Cochran crash site
On Saturday, April 16, 1960, at about 11:50 p.m., while on tour in the United Kingdom, 21-year-old Cochran died in a traffic accident in a taxi (a Ford Co…
↳ Wiltshire
The post-britpop pub
The Hawley Arms is a pub in Camden Town, an area in the borough of Camden, North London. After an owner change and refurbishment in 2006, this pub reopene…
↳ The Hawley Arms
Jimi Hendrix London home
Brook Street is a street in the exclusive central London district of Mayfair. On September 15th 1997 Peter Tonwshend unveiled an English heritage plaque a…
↳ 23 Brook Street
Public Conveniences
Broadwick street is a street in the entertainment district of Soho in London. In 1966 John Lennon took part in a sketch for the BBC comedy show "Not only …
↳ Broadwick Street
Keith goes to jail
Wormwood scrubs is a prison in west London which was originally built in 1875, it housed both male and female prisoners until 1902 when the last female pr…
↳ Wormwood scrubs prison
Site of Ted Gärdestad‘s suicide
Häggvik station is a train station in the commune of Sollentuna, a suburb of the city of Stockholm in Sweden.On the 22nd of June 1997 musician Ted Ar…
↳ Häggvik Rail Station
Start of the Magical Mystery Tour
The Magical Mystery Tour bus set off from Allsop Place, North West London, on Monday 11 September 1967, with Paul McCartney, film crew, and other p…
↳ Allsop Place
Brian Jones country home
Cotchford farm is a country house in East Sussex, it was at one point owned by Winnie-the-Pooh author Arthur Alan Milne. He used the area as the setting f…
↳ Cotchford Farm
Gered Mankowitz Studio
Mason's yard is a yard in the Westminster district of London, in the sixties it was the location of many different scenes of culture and music. Today the …
↳ 9 Mason's Yard
Steve and Ronnie meet at the J60 Music Bar
The J60 music bar was an instrument shop in Manor Park in the 1960s. Steve Marriott started working saturdays here in early 1965, one day Ronnie Lane visi…
↳ The J60 Music bar
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