The Marquee gradually got bigger, as live music of that nature became more popular, and then we wanted to do more blues and so on, not just traditional jazz, so we brought some American blues artists over to Britain, because we thought that the way to get hold of this music better was to have [...]
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The Rolling Stones
5 February, 2009 – 11:41 am
Watch the Rolling Stones perform at a New Musical Express Poll Winners show in 1964 here:
On 12th July 1962, the Marquee was the venue for the Rolling Stones’ first ever live show. Formed by former schoolmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards with fellow R&B enthusiast Brian Jones and named after a Muddy Waters song, the [...]