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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
Cover - England Made Me
The cover features wrestler Adrian Street alongside his father inside Bryn Maw coal mine. Bryn Maw means “big hill” in Welsh. Street used to k…
↳ Former Bryn Mawr Colliery
Video - Hey Boy Hey Girl
The Natural History Museum is one a large museum on Exhibition Road in the district of South Kensington in the city of London. The Natural History M…
↳ Natural History Museum
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
Album Cover - Animals
The power station stands across the river from Victoria station. Its four white chimneys are a famous landmark. The building has a steel girder frame surr…
↳ Battersea Power Station
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
Album Cover - Who´s Next
Who's Next was the Who's fifth album, released on July 31, 1971 in the United States and August 25, 1971 in the United Kingdom. The album cover is a photo…
↳ Easington Colliery
Cover - Rattus Norvegicus
The album cover of the Stranglers 1977 album Rattus Norvegicus was shot at Manor House. Located in the Southeast London upmarket area of Blackheath. The b…
↳ Manor House, Blackheath
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