Music venues & locations Charles Goad maps

Hendrix at the Flamingo, the Rolling Stones’ first gig at the Marquee, the Sex Pistols at the 100 Club: Charles Goad’s fire ...

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Hendrix at the Flamingo, the Rolling Stones’ first gig at the Marquee, the Sex Pistols at the 100 Club: Charles Goad’s fire insurance maps catch London’s music venues as working buildings, labelled by trade, not fame. The Marquee is named at 90 Wardour Street, home to the Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Bowie; the 2i’s Coffee Bar, where Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard helped launch British rock ’n’ roll, is a club and restaurant on Old Compton Street; the Bag O’Nails and the Scene are basement clubs. The Saville Theatre, where the Jimi Hendrix Experience opened with Sgt. Pepper on 4 June 1967, days after the album’s release, with Paul McCartney and George Harrison in the audience, appears mid-conversion into cinemas. Tin Pan Alley’s publishers, Trident Studios, Ronnie Scott’s, Les Cousins, the Speakeasy, the UFO club and the BBC’s Paris Theatre are all here, as are the Royal Festival Hall with its new 1960s neighbours, the Roundhouse already labelled a theatre and rehearsal hall before Dingwalls opened nearby, Turnmills, the Astoria and the Canterbury Music Hall. Sheets printed from 1889 and corrected into 1971 record the stages, cellars and streets of the Beatles, the Clash, Oasis and Nirvana.

Hendrix at the Flamingo, the Rolling Stones’ first gig at the Marquee, the Sex Pistols at the 100 Club: Charles Goad’s fire insurance maps catch London’s music venues as working buildings, labelled by trade, not fame. The Marquee is named at 90 Wardour Street, home to the Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Bowie; the 2i’s Coffee Bar, where Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard helped launch British rock ’n’ roll, is a club and restaurant on Old Compton Street; the Bag O’Nails and the Scene are basement clubs. The Saville Theatre, where the Jimi Hendrix Experience opened with Sgt. Pepper on 4 June 1967, days after the album’s release, with Paul McCartney and George Harrison in the audience, appears mid-conversion into cinemas. Tin Pan Alley’s publishers, Trident Studios, Ronnie Scott’s, Les Cousins, the Speakeasy, the UFO club and the BBC’s Paris Theatre are all here, as are the Royal Festival Hall with its new 1960s neighbours, the Roundhouse already labelled a theatre and rehearsal hall before Dingwalls opened nearby, Turnmills, the Astoria and the Canterbury Music Hall. Sheets printed from 1889 and corrected into 1971 record the stages, cellars and streets of the Beatles, the Clash, Oasis and Nirvana.

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