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Where Mick and Keith meet
The first railway station in Dartford was opened here by the South Eastern Railway it extended its North Kent Line from Gravesend on July 30, 1849, taking…
↳ Dartford Station
The Bricklayers Arms
The Bricklayers Arms was a pub located in the entertainment district of Soho in sixties London. In 1962 spring this was were Brian Jones auditioned the in…
↳ 7 Broadwick Street
After Edith Grove
After the squalor of Edith Grove, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards moved out into the more sedate surroundings of this North West London flat. They shared t…
↳ 33 Mapesbury Road
Resting place of Brian Jones
Jones was reportedly buried 12 feet (3.7 m) deep in Cheltenham Cemetery (to prevent exhumation by trophy hunters) in a lavish casket sent for his funeral …
↳ Cheltenham Cemetery
Ian Curtis place of cremation
Macclesfield was the home town of Ian Curtis and Stephen Morris of Joy Division, a memorial to Curtis is located in Macclesfield Crematorium. The inscript…
↳ Macclesfield crematorium
The street where Johnny Rotten grew up
Johnny Rotten singer of the Sex Pistols, real name John Joseph Lydon, grew up in this street.In his autobiography No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs he tells of…
↳ Benwell Road
Redlands bust
This country house in west sussex was bought by Keith Richards the 60s, it has got a thatched roof and is surrounded by a moat.On sunday the 13th of Febru…
↳ Redlands
Anthem of London
Waterloo station is a rail and underground station on the South side of the river Thames in London, the station first opened in 1848 as 'Waterloo Bridge S…
↳ The South Bank
Rolling Stones London home
Brian Jones, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards moved into this flat in Edith Grove late summer 1962 and shared it throughout 1962 and 1963. Also sharing the …
↳ 102 Edith Grove
Mick goes to jail
The original buildings of Brixton prison date from 1819. In 1862 the prison was sold to the Government and converted into a prison for females. Twenty yea…
↳ Brixton Prison
Bolan’s Rock Shrine memorial
The rock shrine is a memorial site dedicated to Marc Bolan, located in the suburb of Barnes to the south west of London. Bolan died on 16 September 1977, …
↳ Queens Ride, Barnes
Death of a Rock Legend
This is where AC/DC lead singer and rock legend Bon Scott was found unconscious after a night's heavy drinking on the night of February 19th 1980. After l…
↳ 67 Overhill Road
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