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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
Venue - The Ruskin Arms
This east London pub has got a dual reason for fame, it appears on the front cover of a number of Iron Maiden albums, the band also played a gig here on f…
↳ The Ruskin Arms
Lyrics - Itchycoo Park
Itchycoo Park is a psychedelic pop song written by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane of the group Small Faces. It is debated which park is described in the t…
↳ Little Ilford Park
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
Venue - The Crawdaddy Club
In the present day the Crawdaddy Club is a pub called the Bull, but in the early 1960s it was a hotel called the Station Hotel. The very young Rolli…
↳ The Crawdaddy Club
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
Venue - The Second Marquee Club
Today 90 Wardour street is site to the upmarket Cuban-themed restaurant and bar Floridita. Above it is Soho Lofts, a collection of very exclusive flats. I…
↳ 90 Wardour Street
Venue - The First Marquee Club
On this site on July 12th 1962, a six piece Rolling Stones consisting of Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Ian Stewart, Dick Taylor and Mick Avory…
↳ 165 Oxford Street
Lyrics - Ian Dury‘s early band
Ian Dury formed the band Kilburn and the High-Roads in 1971, the name being a pun on the road in this north part of London. Ian Dury was vocalist and lyri…
↳ Kilburn
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
Album Cover - Tormato
Yes Tor is the second highest point on Dartmoor, Devon, South West England, at 619 m (2,031 ft) above sea level. This Tor is featured on the cover of prog…
↳ Yes Tor in Dartmoor
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