As the Sixties progressed, the National Jazz and Blues Festival started featuring more and more rock bands. I’d seen Cream doing their very first rehearsal in a church hall and then I went to see them at Klooks Kleek at the Station Hotel in West Hampstead, and they were fantastic. The big premiere for the [...]
By Valerie Potter
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Posted in Music, Television
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Also tagged Beach Boys, Chris Welch, James Brown, Klooks Kleek, Lovin' Spoonful, McDonalds, National Jazz and Blues Festival, Ready Steady Go!, Starbucks, Station Hotel, The Byrds, The Ship, Wardour Street
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I joined ‘Melody Maker’ in 1964, but before that I used to go to the old Marquee when it was in Oxford Street, which had a bit of a plush jazz vibe, to see people like Johnny Dankworth and Cleo Laine. Then the club moved round the corner into Wardour Street and it became much [...]
By Valerie Potter
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Posted in Bands at the Marquee, Clubs, Music
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Also tagged Chris Welch, Cleo Laine, David Bowie, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, John Gee, Johnny Dankworth, Led Zeppelin, Marquee, Maximum R'N'B, Melody Maker, National Jazz Festival, Nick Jones, Ten Years After, The Who, The Yardbirds, Wardour Street
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26 March, 2009 – 11:52 am
If you’re planning a trip to New York in the near future, make time to visit the Not Fade Away Gallery, which is currently housing an exhibition called ‘The British Are Coming!’
The collection features previously unseen photographs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, taken between 1964 and 1966 by Bob Bonis. Bonis was the [...]
19 March, 2009 – 12:27 pm
All the bands knew one another and we would hang out together. It was like a big pool of musicians. We would all assemble in these different places and there would be jams going on. We would go to clubs like the Cromwellian club in the Cromwell Road and Scotch of St James, which was [...]
By Valerie Potter
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Posted in Carnaby Street, Celebrities, Clubs, Music
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Also tagged Ad Lib club, Brian Auger, Brian Auger Trinity, Cambridge Circus, Chas Chandler, Cottage Club, Cromwell Road, Cromwellian, Eric Clapton, Flamingo Club, Georgie Fame, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Julie Driscoll, Mickey Waller, Procol Harum, Regent Street, Ringo, Rod Stewart, Scotch of St James, St James, Steve Winwood, Ten Years After, The Animals, The Beatles, The Blue Flames, The Faces, The Speakeasy, Whiter Shade Of Pale, Yeh Yeh
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