The Beatles' London

THE

BEATLES’

Piet Schreuders Mark Lewisohn Adam Smith

A guide to 467 Beatles sites

“Far and away the most interesting Beatles book ever assembled” – Derek Taylor

Piet Schreuders Mark Lewisohn Adam Smith

THE

BEATLES’ revised and updated

A guide to 467 BeAtles sites in And Around london

Foreword by Derek Taylor

Portico

Original edition published 1994 Revised edition first published in the United Kingdom in 2008 by Portico Books 10 Southcombe Street London W14 0RA An imprint of Anova Books Company Ltd Copyright © 1994/2008 Piet Schreuders, Mark Lewisohn, Adam Smith The moral right of the authors has been asserted.

Photographs: the authors have made every effort to acknowledge copyright and secure clearance.

Unintentional errors or omissions will be corrected in future editions.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.

ISBN 9781906032265 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed and bound by SNP Leefung Printers Ltd, Hong Kong Book design by Piet Schreuders and Sonja van Hamel, Amsterdam Maps and illustrations by Piet Schreuders Prepress by Sarah Tames This book can be ordered direct from the publisher.

Contact the marketing department, but try your bookshop first. www.anovabooks.com

foreword

foreword jim mcc RA Ry

by Derek Taylor

For me, this is far and away the most interesting Beatles book ever assembled. Like everything else bearing Mark Lewisohn’s name it is relentlessly researched and as exact as human resources will permit.

Here however we have too a buoyant exposition of geography, iconography and sense of place. Piet Schreuders is fascinated by the imagery of Fabfourdom, and has traced in detail the where and how and when and sometimes the whys and wherefores of the Beatles’ mobility in the 1960s.

The texture and feel of the publication is more than compelling. It is compulsive.

Adam Smith has joined Lewisohn and Schreuders in the research and writing and there is a seamless, wistfully evocative piece of history within these covers. No Beatles’ fan can afford not to own a copy. Indeed, you’ll need two; one for the library, one for travelling.

London is the Fifth Beatle here.

Liverpool, the holy city (Allen Ginsberg’s ‘centre of the universe’) was where they were from – and they couldn’t have come from anywhere else and been so good – but, pace Liverpool, London was where they wanted to be and where they had to go in order to make it.

And though in the more than three decades since the end of their definitive triumphs, the three surviving ex-Beatles have travelled the world and lived elsewhere, London has remained the place they still home in on, keep offices, meet each other, spend time, buy Christmas presents.

This book is a graphic narrative of Sixties London and what the great George Melly – another proud and eloquent son of Liverpool who found his feet in the Metropolis – has called ‘the whimpering dog of nostalgia’ can be heard round every corner, where so much has been despoiled, altered, obliterated, improved, tarted up, renovated, debauched, gutted.

Everywhere the Beatles went in London and the Home Counties is here; everything they did in their professional careers in and around the capital is looped through the locations, and you can trace as with a bird’s eye the pattern of busy buzzing lives lived by very British young men with broad interests and inquiring minds.

Daylight movement ‘above ground’ had to be nimble in the white heat of Beatlemania.

Maureen Cleave gives a glorious insight into this in her London Evening Standard piece of March 4 1966 (the one in which John slipped

Derek Taylor was personal assistant to Brian Epstein at Nems Enterprises in 1964, doubling as Beatles press officer when they went on tour. A friend of them all from that point on, he ran the press and PR department at Apple from 1968 to 1970 and was heavily involved in the Anthology in the 1990s. He died aged 65 in 1997 and is much missed.

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

v

foreword into ‘More popular than Jesus’ mode) when she describes being in Brian Epstein’s office when ‘… a rumour came through that a Beatle had been sighted walking down Oxford Street. He [John] brightened. “One of the others must be out,” he said, as though speaking of an escaped bear.’

What comes through all of this activity is the diversity of the places they visited. They and their manager (and my old boss), Brian Epstein – also a genuine Scouser on the make, who just loved having offices next door to the London Palladium – certainly got about and used London for living and working as perhaps only adventurous provincials would, finding everything new and interesting – the ‘Hotels de Posh’ as soon as they could afford them, and later, when they could afford anything, funky holes and good-vibes corners.

Read this book and look at its photographs, designs and maps and you will experience the evolution of four wonder-filled careerists and their friends in a time of insistent innocence when it was Fun Finding Out. The pattern of the Beatles’ success is inescapably chronicled here. It brings them to new life – and that in itself is some feat, after so many, many books and examinations.

It re-awakens memories of a London that continues to vanish as the developers grab their planning permissions and burn and burgle our history.

In a letter to me, Piet Schreuders raised an apprehension that ‘maybe someone would say “Fine, so John and Ringo were at 14–16 Bruton Place, W1, on April 18th 1968 at lunchtime – so what?”’

(Some will. Yet if you say ‘so what?’ about anything at all then this book is not for you vi

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

and neither, probably, are the Beatles.)

But, if you share Piet Schreuders’ interest in the darting pilgrims’ progress of those cuban-heeled black-clad figures running through London back streets all those years ago, if you are interested to know, say, where were those blank blast walls of ‘I Am The Walrus’ (and what happened to them) and if perhaps you ever wondered where John looked through bent-back tulips to see where the other half lives, then this is the book and there’ll never be another.

Though sometimes much beset by rogues, the Beatles also had the capacity to attract the best people from all fields and in these three researchers and writers, bound together by the cartography and design of the immaculate Schreuders, the Beatles are superbly served. They all deserve each other and you can’t say fairer than that.

Derek Taylor Suffolk, November 1993

introduction

introduction to the first edition

The Beatles will always be associated with Liverpool, but their success called them to London, and that’s where they stayed. From 1963 they lived, worked and played in the capital city, in recording and photographic studios, hotels, flats, houses, pubs, offices and many other places. This book lists them all – obscure or famous, trivial or significant.

Though the Beatles traversed the globe, they remained resiliently British. Whether trying to emulate their American musical heroes, writing French lyrics or learning Indian instrumentation, eggs and chips and plenty of tea sustained them during arduous recording sessions. Sgt Pepper, appreciated the world over as the apex of Beatles’ creativity, was made with the help of an able technical staff at a St John’s Wood studio. There was the photo session in Chelsea, the costumes hired from a Soho firm, the press launch in Belgravia. And from where came the inspiration? Books bought at the Indica Gallery, concerts and evenings with friends at the ICA, UFO and Roundhouse, and a chemical substance first ingested in a flat off Hyde Park. Seen in this geographical light, every detail, even the trivial, begins to assume a greater significance.

Having spent several years compiling this

book, we believe that it isn’t possible to gain a complete picture of the Beatles without knowing a little about life in London in the 1960s, and the bond between the group and the intricately woven web of places they frequented. We hope this book paints that picture, while also meeting the demand for a visitor’s guide, and that it will enhance any degree of familiarity with Beatles history.

A few other points worth noting:

• The Beatles ceased group activities in 1970,

so this book ends there and does not extend to locations connected with their subsequent careers.

• London is constantly changing; buildings and streets disappear at a rate which makes the Luftwaffe’s handiwork look cosmetic.

And of course, different companies now occupy the Beatles’ former offices, and other people now live in the Beatles’ former homes.

Readers should at all times respect an occupant’s right to privacy.

Piet Schreuders, Mark Lewisohn, Adam Smith October 1993 T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

vii

introduction

viii

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

introduction

introduction to the second edition

London has changed a lot in the fourteen years since we wrote the first edition. It is less friendly, more crowded, worse value and generally harder work for residents, commuters and tourists alike. But it is still the greatest city in the world.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s London enjoyed a building boom of steel-and-concrete office blocks. Most were ugly, cheap, and built in a hurry. They did however epitomise a new-found confidence, aspiration and modernity which had been a long time coming since the war. They were the very image of Beatleera London. Sadly, they were not built to last.

At forty they were entering old age, and many have now gone. This has been the biggest change to the London streetscape since we wrote the first edition. There is little point describing buildings which have disappeared, but EMI House at 20 Manchester Square

(1960–1999, left) was a classic example of the type, and of course central to the Beatles’ London. Now it exists only in the fragile limbo of living memory, and in documents like album covers and books like this. Much, perhaps even the majority, of London’s ‘built environment’ which the Beatles knew survives, though inevitable changes of use, décor, ownership and surroundings soften the focus with each passing year. You can visit the vanished remainder only in your imagination.

We hope this much-enlarged, much improved second edition of The Beatles’ London helps you see all of it.

Piet Schreuders Mark Lewisohn Adam Smith January 2008

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

ix

the beatles’ london

‘Tittenhurst’, London Road

you are here

Sherriff Rd, NW6

sunninghill, ascot Maps on pages 171, 174, 175 Abbey Road, NW8

Marylebone Rd, NW1

See page 178

Goldhawk Rd, W6

The Barons

st margaret ’s, twickenham xiv

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

Burlington Ln, W4

Abbey Road, NW8

Cavendish Av, NW8

Pancras Rd, NW1

Euston Rd, NW1

Gray’s Inn Rd, WC1

W Smithfield, EC1

Endell St, WC2

Montagu Sq, W1

Hyde Park, W2

Manchester Sq, W1

Regent St, W1

Wardour St, W1

West Malling Air Station

The Vale, SW3

Flood St, SW3

west malling, maidstone Maps on pages xii, 215, 216

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

xv

introduction

How to use The Beatles’ London

This book is divided into sections designed to make best sense of the complex geography of inner and outer London, in all directions.

Details of the nearest underground (tube) station(s) to each Beatles-related location appear at the foot of each entry, denoted by the symbol ¥. In the few instances where a London site is not adequately served by a tube station, we have given the nearest overground rail station, together with information on suitable tube connections to that rail service. Look out, too, for the occasional bus information.

It would be foolhardy to visit any location in the London area by car or coach except on a Sunday or a national holiday. During the other six days of the week the streets of London are packed solid with vehicles and pedestrians. There’s also the maze of streets and one-way systems to negotiate, made infinitely worse during weekdays by the volume of traffic, and awesome parking restrictions to try even the most patient driver.

Failure to heed this advice will leave you frustrated and bad-tempered, and you’ll see much less than had you travelled around town by other means. London has excellent public transport – use it! Or, alternatively, walk.

Many Beatles sites, particularly in Central xvi

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

Wa Av

London, are condensed into quite a small area.

As for finding places, this book has bespoke maps, tailored expressly for users intent not only on reading about the Beatles’ London but visiting places too. They should meet every need, but if not then a comprehensive London street atlas will aid the cause.

There are numerous editions across the price spectrum – the cheapest covering only the central area, the largest and most expensive encompassing outer suburbs too, useful for the latter sections of The Beatles’ London.

You will also need a map of the complete London Underground system. This can be obtained free of charge from any station, bus terminus, tourist office, travel information centre or, of course, the internet: www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround.

introduction

A fast Fab excursion Five miles, five hours, on foot

EMI Abbey Road Studios

Maida Vale

St John’s Wood

McCartney Zebra-crossing d r e end grov

st jo hn

john’s wood

’s wo od

gton r d

st

arwick venue

rd p

n ri

ce

al

rd

rt

be

Start: ¥Oxford Circus

park

lisso

5–6 Argyll Street (pp 3 and 4) former Nems office; also the adjacent London Palladium (where the Beatles played three times)

rd

v n gro

lisson grove

This book prescribes no ‘must see’ advice – what you choose to visit is just that, your choice. But for those who want a little steering, or whose time in the capital is tight, here are 20 locations which cover some essentials.

The list is ordered so that one could walk from place to place, a distance of approximately five miles. Allow about five hours.

wellin

maida va le

maida vale

e

regent ’s park Marylebone Station Edgware Road

Marylebone Register Office pl

Marylebone Magistrates’ Court

m

a

r

e

b

o

‘Apple’ shop st

Ringo’s flat (Paul/John)

yl

gl

edgware

o

u

ce

rd

st

er

Baker Street

n

e

r

Regent’s Park

r ke

ac pl

o

x

fo

r

m

d

o

s

re

d st

d

Oxford Circus

bon

nt

Goodge Street

o

Nems

x

fo

lly

r

soho

d

s

t

Tottenham Court Road

Trident Studios

Green Park

London Pavilion Epstein/Beatles

Rupert Court

Indica Gallery pal

l m a

ll

57 Wimpole Street (p 53) formerly the Asher family residence (Paul lived here 1963–66)

17 St Annes Court (p 14) Trident Studios (Hey Jude and several other songs recorded here)

94 Baker Street (p 41) Apple shop 1967–68

Rupert Court (front cover and p 13) 1963 photo location

34 Montagu Square (p 49) formerly Ringo’s flat, also used by Paul and John

31 Coventry Street (p 5) Prince of Wales Theatre (Royal Variety Performance 1963)

Marylebone Register Office (p 48) Paul and Ringo married here (separately, that is)

3 Piccadilly (p 11) former London Pavilion (film premieres)

181 Marylebone Road (p 48) Marylebone Magistrates’ Court (John convicted here, 1968)

6 Masons Yard (p 84) former Indica Gallery (where John met Yoko); also former night-club Scotch Of St James at number 13

Marylebone Station (p 191) A Hard Day’s Night filmed here (also in adjacent Boston Place)

3 Savile Row (p 34) Apple 1968–76

Bag O’ Nails piccadi

9 Kingly Street (p 8) former Bag O’Nails club (where Paul met Linda)

London Palladium

st

Apple

ge

st nduit

re

co

The May Fair

n

fitzrovia

st

t

new

k la n

m ayfa i r

la rt

ig

e

Bond Street

Warren Street

po

w

Apple The Beatles’ flat

par

Great Portland Street

e

ba

Asher

Piccadilly Circus

95 Wigmore Street (p 53) Apple’s first office

d

m a ryl e b o n e

Marble Arch

57 Green Street (p 24) The Beatles lived together in the top floor flat

Leicester Square

Prince Of Wales

westminster

covent garden Covent Garden

9 Stafford Street (p 38) formerly Brian Epstein’s and the Beatles’ office Stratton Street (p 38) The May Fair Hotel (the Beatles visit Dylan, Lennon visits Bardot)

7 Cavendish Avenue (p 95) Paul’s place 3 Abbey Road (p 90) EMI’s Abbey Road studios; also the world’s most famous zebra-crossing End: ¥St John’s Wood

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

1

soho

central london

68 Regent Street, W1

keySTone / g eT Ty

Café Royal

The premiere of A Hard Day’s Night at the London Pavilion

to the premiere of John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy on 25 September 1969.

The London Pavilion closed in 1978.

The building is now a leisure destination, Trocadero. ¥Piccadilly Circus

15 Poland Street, W1

In the final months of 1962 and the start of 1963, the top-floor office in this blue-plaque building (the poet Shelley lived here in 1811) was occupied by Tony Calder Enterprises.

Just starting out a long music business career, Calder handled the publicity for Love Me Do and escorted the Beatles around London to meet journalists. The lads from Liverpool came here once in that period. ¥oxford Circus

12

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

For decades one of London’s finest restaurants. The Beatles first came here on 30 December 1963, to attend a private luncheon – held in one of the venue’s many private suites – thrown by music publisher Dick James. It had been a fantastic year and James wished to mark its ending in memorable fashion.

During the evening of 3 April 1969 an edition of Thames Television’s The Eamonn Andrews Show was broadcast from here, with John and Yoko Lennon among the guests. ¥Piccadilly Circus

112 Regent Street, W1

Formerly the premises of Garrard & Co, goldsmiths and jewellers by appointment to the Queen. George Harrison brought bride-to-be Pattie Boyd here in January 1966 to purchase wedding rings. Garrard has since relocated to 24 Albemarle Street, W1. ¥Piccadilly Circus

10 Richmond Mews, W1

Formerly the premises of the Marquee Studio, affiliated to the Marquee Club.

The Beatles came here at the end of October 1965 to record the third Christmas record for members of their Official Fan Club. In the event, nothing was usable and they had another go, more fruitfully this time, during the Rubber Soul sessions at Abbey Road.

Note: originally a warehouse, this building

central london

soho Rupert Court on 2 July 1963

has since been converted into loft apartments, called Soho Lofts. And there is no street sign for Richmond Mews itself – it is a continuation of Richmond Buildings, a stinky, stumpy, trampy street off Dean Street used by uncouth youth for public urination. ¥Tottenham Court Road

¥Leicester Square or Piccadilly Circus

DeZo H oFFMAnn © A PPLe Co RPS LTD

19 Romilly Street (at Dean Street), W1

‘Of course, the Beatles only eat at the in places,’ said Paul McCartney in 1968, describing the restaurant Trattoria Terrazza, then at this address. Paul was referring to its inclusion in the famous Time magazine cover story ‘London: The Swinging City’ of 15 April 1966. The key room to get into was the lefthand basement, where dined all the hipsters of the time and mere mortals were excluded.

Rupert Court in 1989

This short alley between Soho’s busy Rupert Street and Wardour Street, with the Blue Posts pub at the Rupert Street end, is the location for one of the most famous of all early Beatles photographs, shot on 2 July 1963 by Dezo Hoffmann ‘to capture the sordidness of the area’ (his words) and also to give a ‘Liverpool-like’ impression. (The alley also happened to be right outside his studio.)

The 1963 arrangement of this ‘sordid’ Soho alley, as seen in the picture, was as follows: on the left, Book Mart, booksellers, at number 8; Non Stop Striptease at 7; Oddi Giuseppe, café, at 5. On the right, Theatrical Models Limited, costumiers, at 1-2; and the Blue Posts public house (then and now) at 28 Rupert Street. Hardly a den of iniquity. ¥Piccadilly Circus or Leicester Square

SC HRe U De RS

Rupert Court, W1

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

13

soho

central london Rupert Street (at Brewer Street), W1

The weekday fruit and vegetable market here served as the location for some of the best-known Dezo Hoffmann photographs of the Beatles, taken on 2 July 1963. In particular, the Beatles were pictured buying bananas from a stall on the corner at 5–7 Brewer Street. ¥Piccadilly Circus

SC hRe Ud e RS

deZo hoFFMAnn © A PPLe C o RPS LTd

24 Rupert Street, W1

14

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

Formerly the premises of Sound City, a guitar shop where the Beatles came (at least once) to buy instruments. ¥Piccadilly Circus or Leicester Square

17 St Annes Court, W1

Trident Studios

A recording studio called Trident has been situated here, on and off and sometimes under other names, since the late 1960s. Under its original stewardship Trident played host to a number of Beatles recording sessions.

Trident was one of the new wave of London facilities which mushroomed in the 1960s to meet increased demand for independent studio time. Independent studios could be more flexible than those attached to major concerns – EMI had Abbey Road, Decca had its own studio, as did Pye and Philips – and were often the first to buy new equipment at a time when technology was improving rapidly.

It was indeed because Trident offered eight-track recording while Abbey Road persisted with four-track that the Beatles began to use the facility extensively in 1968.

They first came here on 31 July 1968 to tape Hey Jude and then returned over the next few

central london

soho kin’s hit debut single Those Were The Days in July 1968 Paul McCartney (who produced the song), Mary, and a group of neatly attired schoolgirls who formed the choir, posed for publicity photographs in the cramped alley called Flaxman Court, immediately opposite the Trident Studios entrance. ¥Tottenham Court Road

Flaxman Court, looking towards St Annes Court

joh n ke LLy © APPLe Co RPS LTd

39 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1

weeks to record, in full or part, Dear Prudence, Honey Pie, Savoy Truffle and Martha My Dear.

Some months later, on 22 and 23 February 1969, they returned to record the basic tracks for I Want You (She’s So Heavy).

Individually, the four Beatles were also frequent visitors to Trident between 1968 and 1970, producing much of the music issued on the Apple label by such artists as Mary Hopkin, Jackie Lomax and Billy Preston. Ringo taped some of his Sentimental Journey album here in late 1969, and a year later George recorded much of his triple-album All Things Must Pass at Trident.

During the Trident recording of Mary Hop-

Formerly the premises of Cecil Gee, the renowned menswear store where Dezo Hoffmann photographed the Beatles browsing through the clothes racks after their 4 April 1963 recording session at the nearby BBC Paris studio. In those days the shop was advertised in the weekly music papers as ‘the only man’s store in Europe catering for the professional artist and musician’.

The building at 39 Shaftesbury Avenue is sandwiched between the Lyric Theatre and the Queen’s Theatre and theatre impresario Cameron Mackintosh now owns the entire block. By 2008 the Queen’s Theatre should be restored to its pre-war state (it was bombed and rebuilt), and a third, new, theatre – the Sondheim – will be built at number 39, with a new box office and bar shared by all three theatres. Cecil Gee’s old frontage will be preserved. ¥Piccadilly Circus or Leicester Square

51 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1

Queen’s Theatre

Launching Apple Records with all the panache they could muster, the Beatles invited to England Stan Gortikov, the president of US company Capitol Records, and proceeded to fête him with tea at 3 Savile Row T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

15

central london 57 Green Street, W1

LESLi E BryC E / BE AT p UBLiC ATiO nS LTD © Ap p LE CO rpS LTD

57 Green Street , exterior

When the Beatles first came to London they stayed in hotels – first the Royal Court in Sloane Square and then the President in Russell Square. But they soon hankered for a place to call their own.

Flat L, on the fourth floor at 57 Green Street, was the first, and the only place – apart from the aforementioned hotels – where all four Beatles lived together. The address was a secret yet many fans found it out and mounted almost full-time surveillance outside the front door. The secrecy has, however, succeeded in preventing us from finding

24

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

precise dates of the Beatles’ stay here. They moved in during the early autumn of 1963 (between 1 and 15 September, probably).

Paul and John left by the end of November – Paul moving in with the Asher family in Wimpole Street and John joining Cynthia and baby Julian at their own flat in Emperors Gate. George and Ringo then moved temporarily to flat I on the third floor but the fans outside remained a nuisance to the other tenants. At the request of the landlady Mrs. Thorogood, George and Ringo moved out soon after returning from the Beatles’ first trip to the USA in February 1964.

One of the most famous of all Beatles photographs was taken here at 57 Green Street, at 4.30pm on 15 October 1963, during an exclusive session with Leslie Bryce, the photographer from the monthly magazine The Beatles Book. The shot, later distributed by the Nems press office for publicity purposes and by the fan club as a free gift to members, was taken with the Beatles – George, Ringo, Paul and John in descending order – leaning over the banister of the staircase which led from the third to the fourth floor.

This banister, and all the other interior detail seen in the 1963 photograph, remain unchanged to the present day. ¥Marble Arch or Bond Street SMiTH

mayfair

mayfair

SC H rEUDE rS

rEMME rSwAAL CO LLECTiO n

central london

* Ã Ì Ê £ / iÊ ià iÊ ÀÞVi « Ì Ê ÃiÃÃ Ê >Ì xÇÊ Àii Ê -ÌÀiiÌ

used as the Official Beatles Fan Club handout shot with printed signatures (above left). The situation looked exactly the same when we visited.

Another image from this session became the cover of The Beatles Book magazine in December 1963.

/

ÀÞVi The main photo on the facing page shows the Beatles in their ‘breakfast

Ó

nook’ at the flat, with the United States Embassy and London Hilton hotel visible through the window.

SC HrEUDE rS COLLECTiOn

Ê Ì * Ã

/ iÊ i>Ì iÃ½Ê y>Ì

A Leslie Bryce photograph taken on the staircase at 57 Green Street was

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

25

central london

BoyFRi End, oCToB ER 5, 1963

fitzrovia, bloomsbury & euston

The Beatles at the bollards, April 1963

ÓÓÓ ÕÃÌ , >`

Ó ' / 7

£

ÕÃÌ Ê-µÕ>Ài -Ì>Ì

% 4

.

/

%

/

2

$

2

4

>À`Ã

!

4

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

3

Óä ÕÃÌ , >`

3

%

5

/ iÊ"À> }iÊ/Àii *ÕL VÊ ÕÃi

LÃ ÕÃi

The bollards in 1989 – they’re now gone

SC hRE ud E RS

2

Î

Ã]

Ãi Õ n Ài £ È > £ `ÊÜ È Ê> `Ê£ «Ã Ã i

à `i

56

ÕÃÌ Ê-µÕ>Ài -Ì>Ì

%

Ê v ½ >Ì } V ` ÌÊ `ÊLÕ i à *Ài ÀÀ Ài ¼

a low camera angle, Adams took several shots of Ringo, George, Paul and John leaping above the rubble. No-one yet knew that one of these shots would be selected as the cover of the Beatles EP Twist And Shout, issued on 12 July 1963. (Logically,

nothing remains today of this photo location. In 1981 a giant new mirrored building, 250 Euston Road, was erected on the site.)

The Beatles also posed for Fiona Adams standing in front of 222 Euston Road, an office building then occupied by the National Union of Mineworkers.

The third location, lost to redevelopment as recently as 2003 (for the new University College Hospital), was at the intersection of Gower Street and Euston Road, the southwest corner of the junction, across the street from Euston Square tube exit. The Beatles posed next to, and on, five low concrete bollards, the Orange Tree demolition site clearly visible in the background.

Photographs from this shoot were printed in Boyfriend and in a one-off special publication from the same source, Big New Beat.

LEWiSohn Co LLECTion

Waiting at 222 Euston Road

fitzrovia, bloomsbury & euston

BoyFRiE nd ExTRA : B EATLES pi CTo RiA L

central london

Above: From Boyfriend, July 13, 1963 Left: Cover of Big New Beat, 1963 Right: The Twist and Shout cover, July 1963

¥ Euston Square

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

57

central london

pi Cto Ria L pRESS

fitzrovia, bloomsbury & euston

Goodge Place, W1 Paul McCartney was photographed here,

sitting in his customised Mini. Numbers 49 and 51 Goodge Street, and the corner shop, 50 Goodge Street, can be identified in the picture. ¥ Goodge Street

25 Grafton Way, WC1

University College Hospital Richy and Elsie at uCh, June 1964. She brought the grapes

On 3 June 1964, with worldwide Beatlemania approaching its zenith, and on the eve of a

transcontinental concert tour, Ringo Starr collapsed with tonsillitis and pharyngitis during a photo session (see Prospect Studios, Barnes, p 144). He was taken to a local doctor and thence rushed to the private patients’ wing of this hospital, where he remained until 11 June, emerging through the doorway at 25 Grafton Way to be met and photographed

by Fleet Street’s finest. He then flew to Australia to reclaim his drum stool from replacement Jimmy Nicol.

Ringo’s return to this hospital six months later (1–10 December), to have the offending tonsils removed, caused – as preposterous as it will seem today – considerable worldwide concern. Indeed, the hospital switchboard was so frequently jammed by worried fans that operators at the local telephone exchange were asked to intercept all calls and, if the caller was enquiring about Ringo, give the latest, hourly state-of-health bulletin, displayed in the operators’ room on a huge blackboard.

There were no such shenanigans when, in the relative calm of 1969, George Harrison underwent similar minor surgery here on 7 February, necessitating a short stay. ¥ Euston Square or Warren Street

200 Gray’s Inn Road, WC1

see ‘Mad Day’ section, p 218–219 ¥ Chancery Lane

C o RbiS

Guilford Street, WC1

58

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

The main entrance of the Hotel President – their spring/summer 1963 abode (p 61–63) – being in Guilford Street, the Beatles were captured here by Dezo Hoffmann on 2 July 1963 in a single, lucky photograph, in which

fitzrovia, bloomsbury & euston

SC h REud ERS

dEzo hoffmann © a pp LE Co RpS Ltd

central london

Guilford Street in 1963 (left) and today

they are seen walking towards Russell Square.

Reproduced in countless publications all over the world, it remains one of the best and liveliest pictures of the group. ¥ Russell Square

Howland Street (at Cleveland Street), W1

Formerly known as the Post Office Tower, and now the Telecom Tower, this building has punctuated the Central London skyline since its construction between 1962 and opening for operations on 8 October 1965 (and to the public on 19 May 1966). Measuring 176.8 metres to the top of the main structure, it was, until 1979, the tallest building in Britain. The main function of the building has always been to relay and transmit television

and telephone signals. But from 1966 until 1980 its Top Of The Tower restaurant on the 34th floor was a popular party venue. Its floor slowly revolved, giving diners an all-round view of London as far as 30 miles distant.

One such party was the annual Melody Maker pop awards on 13 September 1966, attended

by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Paul returned on 13 February 1969 when Apple launched Mary Hopkin’s debut album, Postcard. McCartney, who produced the album, attended with Linda Eastman, whom he married less than a month later.

The Tower has been closed to the public since 1980. The 34th floor is still used for special events, and still revolves. ¥ Goodge Street or Warren Street

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

59

central london

d eRek be Rwi N

fitzrovia, bloomsbury & euston

Also present from the magazine were a young man named ‘Davy’ and tea boy ‘Clancy T Smith’. (These were all pseudonyms.)

Derek Berwin first lined up the Beatles on the diving board. Then John and George suggested a swim, so trunks, a lilo, a tyre and a ball (courtesy of Woolworth’s) were produced and three Beatles – Ringo sat on the sidelines because he couldn’t swim – played around in the water with the props.

At 11am they were rushed to London Airport

by Berwin in his Mini.

The resulting photographs were published in Valentine on 8 June 1963 and in the booklet Valentine ’65 Pop Special (published 1964).

The ULU pool, built in the 1930s, has been altered since the Beatles’ visit. The diving board and springboard were removed in the 1980s, and the imperial depth-indicators have since changed to metric. ¥ Goodge Street or Russell Square

Above: From Valentine ’65 Pop Special (1964) Right: From Valentine, 8 June 1963

Malet Street (near Torrington Place), WC1

University of London Union

The swimming pool in the basement of this building was the site of an unusual Beatles session with London photographer Derek Berwin for Fleetway Publications, which issued such teenage girls’ magazines as Valentine and Fabulous.

The pool was hired one morning in early 1963, between 9 and 11am. The Beatles, who were due at London Airport at 11.30 for a domestic flight, arrived quite late, dressed in leather jackets. They changed quickly into striped summer shirts (supplied by Littlewoods Stores) brought along by ‘Valerie’ of Valentine.

60

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

Montague Place, WC1

Despite its location – linking the bustling Russell and Bedford Squares, and at the rear of the stately British Museum and Senate House, part of London University – Montague Place is an oddly quiet thoroughfare, distinguished by a long, narrow median on which used to stand an equally long row of parking meters.

The spot is photographically appealing, and it evidently caught the attention of EMI photographer John Dove who, by 5 March 1963, was still trying to get interesting shots of the company’s recent signing, the Beatles, for possible use on record covers and publicity material.

fitzrovia, bloomsbury & euston

emi

S c hReude RS

central london

Arriving here from the EMI HQ in Manchester Square in the company of record producer George Martin and three photographers, the Beatles took up position between the second and third parking meters nearest to the junction with Malet Street. Several variations on this theme were tried – at one point John even wrapped his spectacles around a meter.

The assignment completed, everyone drove on to EMI Studios in Abbey Road for more photographs and the recording of the Beatles’ third single From Me To You. ¥ Russell Square

Mortimer Street (at Nassau Street), W1

Ringo was detained at the Middlesex Hospital for observation from 8 to 11 September 1969.

The hospital was sold for demolition and redevelopment as flats in 2006. Only the hospital chapel will survive. ¥ Goodge Street

Posing in montague Place.

Right: a view such as this (with the beatles in it) might have been an album cover.

62–72 Russell Square, WC1

Hotel President

Built in 1961–62 on the site of the old County Hotel, the President was considered state-of-the-art on completion, featuring private baths and Philips television sets in every room. (These days it’s considered a three-star.) It became the Beatles’ London residence throughout the summer of 1963, before they found private lodgings.

Hotel director Richard Walduck remembered, ‘One morning in 1963 I suggested to four young guests that, in London, at that time, ties were worn at breakfast. The head porter, Kevin Napier, said, “You can’t speak to them like that. They’re the Beatles.”

I said, “Who?”’ Never the earliest of risers, they usually had breakfast in their rooms anyway.

The group were visited here by numerous journalists and photographers – Robert Freeman and Norman Parkinson among them. (Parkinson shot his classic wide-angle T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

61

fitzrovia, bloomsbury & euston

central london

ad in the Liverpool Echo,

s c hreuders

5 oct. 1962

from dezo hoffmann’s ‘a london day in the life of the Beatles’ feature as it appeared in the booklet

the bed in room 114 today

Williamson (seasonal temporary), Kevin napier (head porter), and Jan Krakowiak, 2 July 1963 far right: Jan Krakowiak in 1989

62

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

sc hre ud e rs

right: posing on luggage trolleys with, from left to right, hall porters John murphy,

d ezo h offmann © ap p le co rps ltd

sc hreud ers

Meet the Beatles, 1963

central london

fitzrovia, bloomsbury & euston GU

IL

ÂœĂŒiÂ?ĂŠ *Ă€iĂƒÂˆ`iÂ˜ĂŒ

FO

RD -ĂŒĂ€iiĂŒ

S

T

R E

ÂœĂŒiÂ?ĂŠ ,Ă•ĂƒĂƒiÂ?Â?

E T -ĂŒ>ĂŒĂ•i

E S

LL Q

ÂœĂ•Â˜ĂŒ>ˆ˜

E

Â?ÂœĂœiĂ€Li`Ăƒ

R

•

A

•

U

•

L

B

E

•

L

R

R

E

•

E

A

O

C

S

U

S

U

F

A

S

R

S

Q

D

L

U

S

E

P D

R

lens portrait of the boys here, dubbed the ‘shishkebab picture’ by the photographer.)

And on 2 July 1963, Dezo Hoffmann came to shoot pictures for a special feature, ‘A Day In The Life Of The Beatles’, commissioned by the Liverpool Echo newspaper.

Hoffmann duly photographed them, ďŹ rst in one of their bedrooms (Room 114 to be precise), drinking tea and then trying to waken a ‘sleeping’ John Lennon (having been up for some time, he was fully dressed under the covers). Downstairs, the Beatles then posed perching on four luggage trolleys and stood around the reception area. Afterwards they walked through Guilford Street and into Russell Square Gardens for more photos.

iVÂŽVÂ…>ÂˆĂ€Ăƒ

ÂĽ russell square

Russell Square Gardens, WC1

This is what we wrote in the ďŹ rst edition of this book (1994): Russell Square, the largest square in Central London, was laid out in 1801. An inscription on the biggest of three circular concrete slabs, serving as fountain-bases in the middle of the gardens, reads ‘During the years 195960 the square was repaved and the fountains and tea house constructed by Holborn Borough Council for the enjoyment of the citizens of the borough and those who succeed them.’ Beatles fans have enjoyed this location too, for photographer Dezo Hoffmann had the group pose on this very spot on 2 July 1963.

While Hoffmann shufed around the fountain in order to vary his angles, the Beatles stood still, each with a foot on one part of the inscription: f o u n ta i n s a n d t e a h o u s e

G

p

r

J T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

63

central london

posing at one of the water fountains in Russell Square; the Hotel Russell is visible

Below: another Russell Square location picked by dezo Hoffmann on

dezo Ho ffmann © ap ple Co RpS lTd

2 July 1963

dezo Hoffmann © a pple Co RpS lTd

in the background

64

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

Hoffmann shot six pictures here, after which the group walked over to a set of hexagonal flower pots, where more shots, some in colour, were taken. Finally, the Beatles were photographed by Hoffmann in front of a pile of folded deckchairs. (see map, previous page) A typically fanciful, contemporary caption to a picture from this session read, ‘Strolling through a park in one of Liverpool’s residential districts, the Beatles stop to pose for a fan who happened to meet them on the way.

Her camera started clicking away in no time.

Casual poses like this one seldom reach the

SC H Re ud eRS

fitzrovia, bloomsbury & euston

Russell Square before renovation

central london newspapers.’ Ludicrous, given that the entire Hotel President/Guilford Street/Russell Square Gardens session was part of Dezo Hoffmann’s aforementioned Liverpool Echo feature, shots from which were also published in the weekly British music newspapers, fan magazines, the London Evening Standard and many hundreds of books and magazines issued to the present day.

And now? Well, Russell Square is still there. But the places where the Beatles were photographed were obliterated during a wholesale redesign of the Square that started in 2000.

fitzrovia, bloomsbury & euston 102 Southampton Row, WC1

Formerly the offices of the ‘underground’ newspaper International Times, known then and fondly remembered as IT. John, Paul and George publicly supported the paper, gave it non-pop interviews, read it, and provided financial assistance. They also came here on occasion, Paul helping to decorate the office. ¥ Russell Square or Holborn

26 Tottenham Court Road, W1 The Vesuvio Club first opened in 1961 but

Paul and Jane and Ringo and Maureen came to see the Scaffold perform here in October 1966. (Paul’s brother Mike was the Scaffold’s Mike McGear.) Paul and Jane returned on 1 November to see Joe Orton’s Loot before its transfer to the West End. On 24 January 1967 Paul took the opportunity to compliment the author when he met Orton at Brian Epstein’s house in Chapel Street to discuss Orton’s proposed Beatle film script Up Against It.

new management in the form of Tony ‘Spanish Tony’ Sanchez, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards relaunched it on 26 July 1968, Mick’s 25th birthday. Paul McCartney attended the party and stole the show by playing an advance pressing of the Beatles’ forthcoming single, Hey Jude c/w Revolution.

Number 26, together with the entire block between Stephen and Percy Streets, was long ago demolished to make way for yet another row of hi-fi and gadget shops. Said demolition also took care of La Maisonette restaurant at 27 Tottenham Court Road. This was where Dick James took Brian Epstein for lunch after their first meeting, on 27 November 1962, the occasion when James clinched the music publishing deal that soon would earn him many a million.

¥ Holborn

¥ Tottenham Court Road

¥ Russell Square

Scala Street

see ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ section, p 193 Southampton Row (at Theobalds Rd), WC1

Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre

100 Southampton Row (top flat), WC1

The former home of International Times editor Barry Miles. Paul McCartney visited here, as well as Miles’ subsequent addresses: 15 Lord North Street, SW1, and flat 8 at 15 Hanson Street, W1. ¥ Russell Square or Holborn

31 Tottenham Court Road, W1

Then an Irish dance hall named the Blarney Club, the basement became the UFO Club on Friday nights from 23 December 1966 until 6 October 1967. Despite its short life, the UFO – pronounced ‘Yoo-fo’ by the cognoscenti – quickly became the London night-club of the T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

65

indexes

indexes

Airports

Gatwick Airport South, 196, 204 London Airport (Heathrow), 170 Northolt Aerodrome, 166 West Malling Air Station, 215–217 Westland Heliport (Battersea), 124

Art galleries, museums, exhibition areas

Alexandra Palace and Pavilion, 162 Arts Laboratory, 69 Earls Court, 140 ICA, 81 Indica Books & Gallery, 84 Lisson Gallery, 42 London Arts Gallery, 29 Madame Tussaud’s, 47 Portal Gallery, 20 Robert Fraser Gallery, 23 Royal Institute Galleries, 85 St Martin’s Nell Gwynne Club, 79

Cinemas, film preview theatres (see also Music venues)

Bowater House, 110 Cameo-Poly, 52 Coliseum Cinerama, 75, 232 Curzon, 23 London Pavilion, 11 Odeon (St Martin’s Lane), 75, 232 Odeon (Haymarket), 83 Odeon (Kensington), 129 Odeon (Panton Street), 11 Plaza, 87 United States Embassy, 26 Warner, 6 Warwick Film Productions, 37

226

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

Film locations

A Hard Day’s Night, 190–204; trailer, 155 Opening scene (running), 190 Train station, 191 Dancing club / casino, 192 Rolls-Royce and London bus (deleted scene), 192 TV studio/theatre, 193 Dashing into canvas hut, 193 Running in mews, 193 Fire escape staircase, 194 Playing field, 195 Helicopter pad, 197 Disused railway station, 197 Ringo walks in street, 197–198 Ringo at riverbank, 199 Ringo covering manhole, 200 Ringo in pub, 199 Paul and actress (deleted scene), 200 Police station, 201 Running into cul-de-sac, 201 Dashing in and out of pub (deleted scene), 202 Darting past demolished church, 203 Final scene (helicopter), 196, 204 Help!, 205–211 Entering terrace houses, 205 Attempt 2 (letter-box), 206 Attempt 3 (weighing scale), 207 Walking in shopping street, 207 ‘Rajahama’ restaurant, 208 Ring specialist (Aspreys), 208 A well-known palace, 209 ‘Intermission’, 210 Alley, riverbank and pub, 211

Magical Mystery Tour, 212–217 Waiting for the bus, 212 Ringo buys tickets, 212 Ringo and Jessie enter bus, 213 Striptease scene, 214 Marathon scene, 215 I Am The Walrus, 216 Sergeant Spinetti scenes, 217 Finale, 217 Let It Be Twickenham Film Studios, 154–155; Apple (studio and rooftop), 35–36 The Magic Christian Sotheby’s, 29; Thames embankment, 146; London Rowing Club boathouse, 146; money in a vat of ordure, 156; theatre scene, 187 Erection, 125 Promo film/video clips: Day Tripper, 154 Elevator (Grapefruit), 127 Hello, Goodbye, 76 Help!, 154 Hey Jude, 154 I Feel Fine, 154 Paperback Writer, 148–150 Penny Lane, 184–185, 187 Rain, 148–150 Revolution, 154 Strawberry Fields Forever, 184– 185 Ticket To Ride, 154 We Can Work It Out, 154

Film studios, edit suites, labs Twickenham Film Studios, 154–155, 192 Filmatic Laboratories, 135 Norman’s Film Productions, 11 TVC (TV Cartoons), 6

Hospitals, clinics

Avenue Clinic, 95 King’s College, 183 London Clinic, 42 Middlesex, 61 Queen Charlotte’s, 138 University College, 58

Hotels

Ariel (Heathrow), 170 Claridge’s, 20 Connaught, 21 Dorchester, 32–33 Grosvenor House, 33 Imperial, 129 Inn On The Park, 26 London Hilton, 32 London International, 125 Mapleton, 5 May Fair, 38 President, 61–63 Ritz, 85 Royal, 66 Royal Court, 121–123 Royal Garden, 128 Royal Lancaster, 133 Savoy, 78

Music venues (Beatles) ABC (Romford), 188 ABC (West Croydon), 181 Apple Corps (roof), 35

indexes Astoria (Finsbury Park), 107 Empire Pool (Wembley), 166–167 Fairfield Halls (Croydon), 180 Gaumont State (Kilburn), 101 Granada (East Ham), 186 Granada (Tooting), 179 Granada (Walthamstow), 163 Granada (Woolwich), 183 Grosvenor House (ballroom), 33 Leyton Public Baths, 163 London Palladium, 4 Lyceum Ballroom, 79 Majestic Ballroom (Finsbury Park), 107 Odeon (Hammersmith), 139 Odeon (Lewisham), 183 Odeon (Romford), 188 Pigalle, 85 Prince Of Wales Theatre, 5 Royal Albert Hall, 127 Wimbledon Palais, 179

Music venues (others) (see also Night-clubs, discotheques)

All-Nighter, 18 Club Noreik (Tottenham), 162 Crawdaddy (Richmond), 151 Flamingo, 18 Ken Colyer, 70 Marquee, 18 Queen Elizabeth Hall, 156 Richmond Athletic Association Grounds, 151 Ronnie Scott’s, 7 Royal Albert Hall, 127 Royal Festival Hall, 156 Roundhouse, 104 Scene, 8 Studio 51, 70 2 i’s Coffee Bar, 10

Night-clubs, discotheques (see also Restaurants)

‘Ad Lav’, 4 Ad Lib, 9 Ambassadeurs, Les, 26, 192 Annabel’s, 20 Annie’s Room, 74 Bag O’Nails, 8–9 Blaises, 129 Blue Angel, 20 Brad’s, 82

‘Cercle, Le’, 192 Club Dell’ Aretusa, 117 Crazy Elephant, 83 Crockford’s, 81 Cromwellian, 115 Danny La Rue’s, 27 Dolly’s, 83 Empire Ballroom, 10 Establishment, 8 Garrison, The, 192 Gargoyle, 6 Pheasantry, 118 Pickwick (Pickwick Room, Downstairs At The Pickwick), 70 Pigalle, 85 Poor Millionaire, 157 Prince, Le, 21 Raymond Revuebar, 214 Revolution, 21 Saddle Room, 27 Scotch Of St James, 84–85 Sette e Mezzo, 39 Sibylla’s, 39, 232 Speakeasy, 47 Starlite, 52 Talk Of The Town, 6 UFO, 65 Valbonne, La, 9 Vesuvio, 65 White Elephant, 23 White Elephant On The River, 83 Winston’s, 21 Yellow Submarine, 133

Offices

Ansbacher & Co, Henry, 160 Apple Corps (1968), 41, 53; (1968–76), 34–37; (from 1994), 112 Apple Electronics, 42 Ardmore & Beechwood, 31 Beatles Fan Club, The, 72 Bryce Hanmer, Isherwood & Company, 20 Cardfont Publishers, 7 Dance News, 182 Decca Records (promotion dept), 7 Dick James Music (1961–64), 68; (from 1964), 73 Disc, 159 EMI Records, 43 Epstein, Brian (1963–64), 72; (1964–67), 3; (1965–67/68), 38

Fleetway House, 158 Goodman Derrick & Co, 157 Hoffmann, Dezo, 7 International Times, 65 Jacobs & Sons, M A, 85 Jonathan Cape, 55 Lazard Brothers & Co, 160 Melody Maker, 159 Nems Enterprises (1963–64), 72; (1964–67), 3 Northern Songs (1963–64), 68; (from 1964), 73 Radio London, 22 Radio Luxembourg, 28 RCA Records, 23 Record Mirror, 16 Shenson, Walter, 28 Stephenson, Harwood & Tatham, 159 Tony Calder Enterprises, 12

Rowing-boat, 152 Rupert Court, 15 Russell Square Gardens, 63–65 Sloane Square, 122–123 St Pancras Old Church and Gardens, 222–223 suburban houses (Highgate), 220 Tittenhurst (last photo session), 174–175 Victoria Embankment Gardens, 78 walking Martha, 89 Wapping Pier Head, 224–225 Washington Hotel (roof), 22

Photo studios, locations (interior)

Austin Reed, 33–34 Boyfriend (Picture Story Publications), 9 ‘Butcher’ photo session, 123 Cavendish Avenue, 96, 225 Cecil Gee, 17 Photo locations (exterior) Cooper, Michael (Chelsea Manor Abbey Road (zebra-crossing), Studios), 116 92–94 City gents (Prospect Studios), Abbey Road Studios (alley, front 144–145 steps), 92 EMI House (offices, stairwell), BBC Paris Studio, 86–87 43–46 Berwick Street market, 16 Farringdon Studio (The Beatles’ Chiswick House (Nowhere Man Million Sellers cover), 160 cover), 148–150 Fleetway House, 158 City gents (mews house), 111 Gotlop, Philip, 126 Euston Road (Twist And Shout Harrison, George, ‘at home’ series, cover), 55–57 172 Flaxman Court, 17 Hoffmann, Dezo, 17 George with E-type Jaguar, 113 Hotel President (bedroom, hall Gloucester Terrace (Bela Zola), porters), 61–63 131, 134 Lennon, John, ‘at home’ series, 178 Goodge Place, 58 McBean, Angus, 69–70 Guilford Street, 59 Montgomery, David, 116 Hyde Park (Beatles For Sale cover Mercury Theatre, 220 and Serpentine Road), 132 Nissen, Oluf, 123 London Palladium (rooftop), 3 Royal Court Hotel (bench), Madingley Club, 152 121–122 Montague Place (parking meters), ‘Shishkebab’ photo, 61–63 60 National Union of Mineworkers, 57 Starr, Ringo, ‘at home’ series, 177 Swimming pool (ULU), 60 Old Street Underground station, Thomson House, 218–219 221 Twickenham Film Studios (Beatles Paul in street (21st birthday For Sale cover), 154 bumps), 98 Vogue Studios, 27 Paul in Charterhouse Street, 158 Washington Hotel, 22 Paul in Idol Lane, 159 West Hampstead Studios, 101 Ringo in Downing Street, 82

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

227

indexes Places of marriage

(see also Places of worship)

Caxton Hall (register office), 81 Chelsea Register Office, 119 Leatherhead and Esher Register Office, 172 Marylebone Register Office, 48

Places of worship

(see also Places of marriage)

Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair, 37 New London Synagogue, St John’s Wood, 95 St John’s Wood Church, 98 St Luke’s, Notting Hill Gate, 203 St Martin-In-The-Fields, 79 St Pancras Old Church, 222–223 St Sophia’s, Bayswater, 134

Police stations, court houses

Esher and Walton Magistrates’ Court, 176 Gerald Road police station, 110 Marylebone Lane police station, 47 Marylebone Magistrates’ Court, 48 Royal Courts of Justice, 78–79

Private homes, flats, lodgings

Allen, Colin, 138 Andrews, Bernie, 37 Angadi, Ayana Deva, 165 Asher, Richard, Margaret, Peter, Jane, Clare, 53 Aspinall, Neil (1965), 49; (1967–68), 112 Bart, Lionel (until 1964), 121; (1964–68), 140 Bassanini, Roberto, 129 Beatles, the (late 1963), 24–25 Black, Cilla, 51 Blake, Peter, 150 Bloom, John, 33 Boyd, Diana, 180 Boyd, Pattie (1964–65), 111, 113 Bratby, John, 182 Brown, Peter, 21 Browne, Tara, 110 Cargill, Patrick, 147 Chandler, Chas, 49 Cleave, Maureen, 99 Cogan, Alma, 128

228

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

Cook, Peter, 102 Cowan, Nicholas, 139 Dawbarn, Bob, 102 Donovan, 97 Doran, Terry, 37 Dunbar, John (1965–66), 120; (1967), 42 Epstein, Brian (1963–65), 113; (1965–67), 109 Etchingham, Kathy, 138 Evans, Mal (1965), 49; (1967–68), 112 Faithfull, Marianne, 120 Fraser, Robert, 29 Freeman, Alan, 99 Freeman, Robert, 125 Gomelsky, Giorgio, 129 Goodman, Arnold, 82 Graves, James and Louisa, 188 Hall, Tony, 23 Hamilton, Richard, 103 Hanratty, James and Mary, 165 Harrison, George (1964–65), 113; (1965–69), 172 Haworth, Jann, 150 Hendrix, Jimi, 49 Hollingshead, Michael, 112 Howard, Dorothy, 82 Hutchins, Chris, 119 Isherwood, Jim, 176 Jagger, Mick (1963), 116; (1963–64), 101; (1964–65), 103; (1966), 42 James, Dick, 165 Jones, Brian (1963), 116; (1964), 115 King, Angie, 138 Kinn, Maurice, 111 Klein, Allen, 38 Koger, Marijke, 49 Lennon, John (1963–64), 125–126; (1964–68), 177–178; (1968), 49; (1969–71), 173–175 Lester, Richard, 151 Lockhart Smith, Judy (1960–66), 47 Lownes, Victor, 111 Mamas and the Papas, the, 42 Mardas, Alexis, 42 Martin, George (1964), 47; (1966–80s), 134 McCartney, Paul (1963–66), 53; (from 1966), 95–96 McEwan, Rory, 140

Michael X, 106 Miles, Barry, 65 Money, George Bruno ‘Zoot’, 138 Moody Blues, the, 147 Newell, Norman, 49 Noble, Peter, 95 O’Dell, Denis, 87 Oldham, Andrew Loog (1963–64), 101; (1965–66), 138 Ono, Yoko (1967), 88 Orton, Joe, 105 Pinter, Harold, 88 Posta, Sid, 52 Posthuma, Simon, 49 Powell, Lilian, 49 Proby, P J, 115 Richards, Keith (1963), 116; (1963–64), 101; (1964–65), 103 Riley, John, 134 Russell, Bertrand, 117 Sellers, Peter, 172 Smith, James, see Proby, P J Spinetti, Victor, 47 Starr, Ringo (1964–65), 113; (1965), 49; (1965–68), 176; (1968–69), 172; (1969–73), 103; (1973–88), 173 Stigwood, Robert, 166 Strach, Dr Walter, 176 Summers, Andy, 138 Taylor, Alistair, 49 Taylor, Derek (1964), 103; (1968), 181; (1968–77), 172 Vaughan, Ivan, 105 Voormann, Klaus, 102–103 Welch, Bruce, 165 Yolland, Peter, 116 Zec, Donald, 133

Star & Garter (Barnes), 146 Sun Inn (Barnes), 146 Turks Head (Twickenham), 199

Pubs

Alexander’s, 118 Alpino, 47 Angus Steak House, 32 Baghdad House, 117 Borshtch ’n’ Tears, 109 Boulestin, 77 Budapest, 8 Café Royal, 12 Chelsea Bridge coffee stall, 124 Chi-Chi Of St James, 87 Fu Tong, 128 Garner’s, 17 Genevieve, 52 Gennaro’s, 6

Anglers (Teddington Lock), 153 Blue Posts, 15 Clarence (Finsbury Park), 107 Cockney Pride, 83 Devonshire Arms, 43 Heroes Of Alma (St John’s Wood), 95 National Film Theatre bar, 156 Orange Tree, 55–57 Portland Arms (Notting Hill), 202 Queen’s Head (Pinner), 166 Sherlock Holmes, 74 Ship & Shovel, 74

Radio studios

BBC Aeolian Hall, 30 BBC Broadcasting House, 51, 232 BBC Maida Vale, 98 BBC Paris, 86 BBC Piccadilly Studios, 85 BBC Playhouse Theatre, 73 Radio Luxembourg, 28

Recording studios

Advision, 29 Apple, 35 Chappell, 28 Cine Tele Sound (CTS), 133 De Lane Lea Kingsway, 71 De Lane Lea Sound Centre, 7 Decca, 100 EMI Abbey Road, 90–94 EMI House, 43 HMV (Personal Recording), 31 IBC, 51–52 Kingsway, 71 Lansdowne, 136 Marquee, 12 Maximum Sound, 182 Morgan (Willesden Green), 168 Olympic, 42 Olympic (Barnes), 146 Pye, 43 Regent Sound, 66 Trident, 16 Wessex, 107

Restaurants, cafeteria, canteens

indexes Golden Egg, 10 Hanover Banqueting Rooms, 27 Harmony (Seed, Macrobiotic Restaurant), 134 Ivy, The, 79 J Lyons & Co, 5 Kay Restaurants, 95 Kontact café, 17 London Transport canteen, 212 Maisonette, La, 65 Manzi’s, 10 Mapleton, 5 Mr Chow, 110 Nick’s Diner, 138 Nucleus Coffee House, 72 Old Vienna, 29–30 Osteria San Lorenzo, 109 Parkes, 108 ‘Rajahama’, 208 Romanella Pizzaexpress, 17 Star Steak House, 77 Tiddy Dols Eating House, 28 Top Of The Tower, 59 Trattoria Terrazza, 13 2 i’s Coffee Bar, 10 White Elephant, 23 Zoo cafeteria (Regent’s Park), 88

Quorum (Alice Pollock), 120 Simpsons, 86 Sound City, 16 Star Shirt Makers, 18 Times Bookshop, The, 52 Westminster Photographic, 10 Woollands, 110

Shops

Adelphi, 77 Donmar, 69 Duke Of York’s, 74–75 Garrick, 68 Jeanetta Cochrane, 65 Mercury, 220 New Arts, 70 Old Vic, 156 Palace (Watford), 166 Playhouse, 73–74 Queen’s, 15 Royal Court, 122 Saville, 75–76 Scala, 193 Shaftesbury, 77 Strand, 68 Theatre Royal (Stratford), 187 Wyndham’s, 68

Anello & Davide, 68 Apple, 41 Apple Tailoring (Civil and Theatrical), 118 Austin Reed, 33–34 Bazaar (Mary Quant), 118 Berman’s, 8 Cecil Gee, 15 Chelsea Antiques Market, 119 Dougie Millings and Son, 10 Drum City, 16 Foyle’s, 31 Gerrard & Co, 12 Granny Takes A Trip, 120 Harrods, 109 His Master’s Voice (HMV), 31 House Of Nutter, The, 37 Hung On You, 115 Indiacraft, 11 Indica Books & Gallery, 84 Juniper (Chelsea Antiques Market), 119 Mr Fish, 21 Portobello Road street market, 136

Television studios, rehearsal rooms, locations ABC Teddington, 153 Associated-Rediffusion Kingsway, 71 Associated-Rediffusion Wembley, 167–168 ATV Borehamwood, 165 BBC Lime Grove, 141 BBC Riverside, 137 BBC Television Centre, 142 BBC Television Theatre, 141–142 Granville Theatre, 137 Hall Of Remembrance, 117 InterTel (VTR Services), 168 St James’s Church Hall, 131 Wimbledon Common, 180

Theatres

(see also Music venues)

Train stations

Acton, 143 Euston, 55 Gatwick (disused), 197 Marylebone, 191 Old Street, 221

Paddington, 131 Victoria, 112 West Ealing, 143 Westbourne Park, 136

Miscellaneous

Asian Music Circle, 165 Australia House, 78 Black Centre, The, 106 Buckingham Palace, 83–84 ‘Buckingham Palace’, 209 Brydor Cars, 169 car accident (George), 139 car accident (Tara Browne), 139 Coe & Sons, W E, 120 Curwen Prints, 66 Enfield Town Driving Test Centre, 162 Fallon, J P (coachworks), 171 International Society for Krishna Consciousness, 55 Italian Cultural Institute, 109 Keystone Photo Library, 160 Leonard, 39 London Press Exchange, 75, 232 Post Office Tower, 59 Regent’s Park Zoo, 88–89 Seven Dials, 73 speeding incident (John), 153 Spiritual Regeneration Movement, 110 Weybridge Driving Test Centre, 176 World Psychedelic Centre, 112

Street index

Abbey Road, NW8, 90–95 Abbotsbury Road, W14, 32 Acanthus Road, SW11, 213 Adam Street, WC2, 77 Adam’s Row, W1, 21 Ailsa Avenue, St Margaret’s, Twickenham, 205 Albemarle Street, W1, 20 Albert Place, W4, 32 Aldwych, WC2, 68 Alexandra Court, W9, 97 Alexandra Park, N22, 162 Allsop Place, NW1, 212 Alma Square, NW8, 95 Alpha Place, SW3, 117 Angel Lane, E15, 187 Anson Road, NW2, 165

Argyle Road, W13, 143 Argyll Street, W1, 3–4 Arlington Road, St Margaret’s, Twickenham, 192 Ashley Gardens, SW1, 82 Ashley Park, Walton-on-Thames, 176 Audley Square, W1, 37 Avenue Road, NW8, 95 Avenue, The, W4, 150 Baker Street, W1, 41 Baker’s Mews, W1, 46 Barking Road, E6, 186 Barnes High Street, SW13, 144–145 Barnfield Gdns, Ham Common, 151 Barons, The, St Margaret’s, Twickenham, 154–155, 192, 205 Bath Road, Heathrow, 170 Beauchamp Place, SW1/SW3, 108–109 Bedford Square, WC1, 55 Beech Row, Ham Common, 151 Belgrave Square, SW1, 109 Bell Street, NW1, 42 Belvedere Road, SE1, 156 Bentinck Street, W1, 42 Berkeley Square, W1, 20 Berkeley Street, W1, 20 Bishop’s Bridge Road, W2, 134 Bishopsgate, EC2, 157 Blandford Street, W1, 208 Bloomfield Place, W1, 30 Boston Place, NW1, 42, 190 Bouverie Street, EC4, 157 Bramerton Street, SW3, 119 Brewer Street, W1, 14 Broadhurst Gardens, NW6, 100 Broadwick Street, W1, 4 Brompton Road, SW1, 109 Brook Street, W1, 20 Broom Road, Teddington Lock, 153 Bruton Place, W1, 21 Bryanston Mews East, W1, 42 Burlington Lane, W4, 148–150 Bury Place, WC1, 55 Bushy Park Road, Teddington, 153 Cale Street, SW3, 115 Carlos Place, W1, 21 Carlton House Terrace, SW1, 81 Carton Street, W1, 42 Cavendish Ave, NW8, 95–96, 225 Caxton Street, SW1, 81 Chalk Farm Road, NW1, 104 Chapel Street, SW1, 109

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

229

indexes Charing Cross Road, WC2, 68 Charlotte Mews, W1, 193 Charlotte Street, W1, 193 Charterhouse Street, EC1, 158 Chelsea Bridge, SW11, 124 Cheltenham Terrace, SW3, 115 Church Road, SW13, 146 Church Row, NW3, 102 City Road, EC1, 221 Claremont Drive, Esher, 172 Clarendon Road, W11, 201 Clarendon Road, Watford, 166 Clifford Street, W1, 21 Cliveden, Taplow, 209 Colville Mews, W11, 135 Compton Avenue, N6, 103 Compton Road, Stanmore, 166 Conduit Street, W1, 21 Courtfield Road, SW7, 115 Coventry Street, W1, 5 Cranbourn Street, W1, 6 Dean Street, W1, 6–7 Crisp Road, W6, 137 Cromwell Road, SW7, 115–116, 125 Cullum Street, E15, 187 Cumberland Gate, W2, 133 Curzon Street, W1, 21–23 Cut, The, SE1, 156 Cutmill Lane, Elstead, 172 Davies Street, W1, 20 Dean’s Yard, SW1, 81 Delaware Road, W9, 98 Denmark Hill, SE5, 183 Devonshire Place, W1, 42 Downing Street, SW1, 82 Drayton Gardens, SW10, 117 Drury Lane, WC2, 69 Duke Of York Street, SW1, 82 Duke Street, W1, 23, 43 Duke Street St James, SW1, 84 Dukes Road, Newdigate, 181 Earlham Street, WC2, 69 East Heath Street, NW3, 102 Eastbourne Terrace, W2, 131 Eaton Place, SW1, 32, 110 Eaton Road, Enfield Town, 162 Eaton Row, SW1, 110 Edith Grove, SW10, 116 Eldon Avenue, Borehamwood, 165 Embankment, The, SW15, 146 Emery Hill Street, SW1, 82 Emperors Gate, SW7, 125–126 Empire Way, Wembley, 166

230

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

Endell Street, WC2, 69 Euston Road, NW1, 55–57 Eversholt Street, NW1, 55 Farringdon Street, EC4, 158 Ferry Lane, Kew, 199 First Street, SW3, 116 Fitzalan Road, N3, 165 Fleet Street, EC4, 159 Flood Street, SW3, 116 Fulham Broadway, SW6, 137 Fulham Road, SW10, 117 Gatwick Airport South, near Crawley, 196, 204 George Street, Romford, 188 Gerald Road, SW1, 110 Gerrard Street, W1, 7 Gloucester Place, NW1, 48 Gloucester Terrace, W2, 131, 134 Goldhawk Road, W6, 138; W12, 200 Goodge Place, W1, 58 Gower Street, NW1, 55–57 Grafton Street, W1, 20 Grafton Way, WC1, 58 Gray’s Inn Road, WC1, 218–219 Great Central Street, NW1, 43, 191 Great Cumberland Place, W1, 43 Great Marlborough Street, W1, 7 Great Newport Street, WC2, 70 Great Smith Street, SW1, 82 Great Western Road, W11, 136 Great Windmill Street, W1, 8 Greek Street, W1, 8 Green Street, W1, 23–25 Grosvenor Road, SW1, 83 Grosvenor Square, W1, 26 Guildford Street, Chertsey, 171 Guilford Street, WC1, 58–59 Gunterstone Road, W14, 138 Gutter Lane, EC2, 159 Hamilton Place, W1, 26–27 Hanover Square, W1, 27 Hanover Street, W1, 27 Hanover Terrace, NW1, 88 Hanson Street, W1, 65 Hanworth Road, Hounslow, 169 Hardy Road, SE3, 182 Harrington Road, SW7, 129 Hasker Street, SW3, 117 Haymarket, SW1, 83 Headstone Ln, North Harrow, 165 Heath Street, NW3, 102–103 Heathfield Street, W11, 201

Heathrow Airport, 170 Henrietta Street, WC2, 77 Hersham Road, Walton-onThames, 176 Hertford Street, W1, 28 High Holborn, WC2, 71 High Road Leyton, E10, 163 High Road, Willesden Green, NW10, 168 High Street Merton, SW19, 179 High Street, Esher, 172 High Street, Hounslow, 169 High Street, Pinner, 166 High Street, West Malling, 212 Highbury New Park, N5, 107 Hoe Street, E17, 163 Holloway Road, N7, 106 Holly Hill, NW3, 103 Horn Lane, W3, 143 Horse Guards Road, SW1, 81 Hurlingham Road, SW6, 138 Hurst Road, N6, 103 Hyde Park, W2, 132 Idol Lane, EC3, 159 Ifield Road, SW10, 138 Ilchester Gardens, W2, 134 Irving Street, W1, 8 Jerdan Place, SW6, 137 Jermyn Street, SW1, 83 Kensington Church Street, W8, 126 Kensington Gardens, SW7, 127 Kensington Gardens Sq, W2, 133 Kensington Gore, SW7, 127–128 Kensington High Street, W8, 128–129 Kew Road, Richmond, 151 Kilburn High Road, NW6, 101 King’s Road, SW3, 117–120 Kingly Street, W1, 8–9 Kingsway, WC2, 71 Knightsbridge, SW1, 110 Knightsbridge Court, Sloane Street, SW1, 112 Knole Park, Sevenoaks, 184–185 Ladbroke Road, W11, 136, 220 Lakeside, Edgehill Road, W13, 200 Lancaster Road, W11, 197 Lancaster Terrace, W2, 133 Langham Street, W1, 51 Langton Street, SW3, 120 Lansdowne Road, W11, 136 Lavender Hill, SW11, 213 Leicester Place, W1, 9

Leicester Square, WC2, 10 Leicester Street, WC2, 10 Lennox Gardens, SW1, 120 Lexham Gardens, W8, 129 Lime Grove, W12, 141 Loampit Vale, SE13, 183 Lombard Road, SW11, 124 London Road, Sunningdale, 172 London Road, Sunninghill, 173–175 London Road, West Croydon, 181 Lord North Street, SW1, 65 Lower Richmond Road, SW15, 146 Lowndes Square, SW1, 111 Lyall Mews, SW1, 111 Maddox Street, W1, 28 Maida Vale, W9, 97, 99 Maitland Court, Lancaster Terrace, W2, 133 Malet Street, WC1, 60 Mall, The, SW1, 83 Manchester Square, W1, 43 Manchester Street, W1, 47 Mapesbury Road, NW2, 101 Margaret Street, W1, 47, 52 Markham Square, SW3, 118 Marylebone High Street, W1, 47 Marylebone Lane, W1, 47 Marylebone Road, NW1, 47–48 Masons Yard, SW1, 84 Mays Court, WC2, 74 Mitcham Road, SW17, 179 Monmouth Street, WC2, 72 Montagu Mansions, W1, 49 Montagu Mews West, W1, 49 Montagu Place, W1, 49 Montagu Square, W1, 49 Montague Place, WC1, 60–61 Montpelier Square, SW7, 111 Mortimer Street, W1, 61 Moscow Road, W2, 134 Mount Street, W1, 29 Munster Road, SW6, 139 Nassau Street, W1, 61 New Bond Street, W1, 29–30, 207, 208 New King’s Road, SW6, 139 New Oxford Street, WC1, 73 Noble Street, EC2, 160 Noel Road, N1, 105 North End Way, NW3, 103 Northumberland Avenue, WC2, 73–74 Oatlands Close, Weybridge, 176

indexes Old Broad Street, EC3, 160 Old Brompton Road, SW7, 120 Old Compton Street, W1, 10–11 Old Kent Road, SE1, 182 Old Street, EC1, 221 Outer Circle (Regent’s Park), NW1, 88 Ovington Mews, SW3, 111 Oxford Street, W1, 11, 31–32 Pall Mall, SW1, 85 Palmer Street, SW1, 81 Pancras Road, NW1, 222–223 Panton Street, W1, 11 Park Lane, W1, 32–33 Park Lane, Croydon, 180 Park Road, NW1, 88 Park Road, East Twickenham, 152 Pembroke Gardens, W8, 129 Piccadilly, W1, 11, 85–86 Pitt’s Head Mews, W1, 32 Poland Street, W1, 12 Pont Street, SW1, 112, 147 Portland Place, W1, 51 Portland Road, W11, 202 Portobello Road, W11, 136 Powis Street, SE18, 183 Praed Street, W2, 131 Queen Caroline St, W6, 139, 194 Queen’s Gate, SW7, 129 Queens Road, Weybridge, 176 Radnor Walk, SW3, 120 Randolph Crescent, W9, 99 Red Lion Court, EC4, 160 Redcliffe Gardens, SW10, 139 Redcliffe Road, SW10, 139

Reece Mews, SW7, 121 Regent Street, W1, 12, 33, 52 Regent Street (Lower), W1, 86–87 Richmond Mews, W1, 12 Roedean Crescent, SW15, 147 Romilly Street, W1, 13 Rosslyn Road, St Margaret’s, Twickenham, 192 Rupert Court, W1, 13, 232 Rupert Street, W1, 14 Russell Square, WC1, 61–63 Russell Square Gardens, WC1, 63–65 Russell Street, WC2, 74 St Annes Court, W1, 14 St George’s Square, SW1, 87 St James’s Street, SW1, 87 St John’s Wood Road, NW8, 96 St Lukes Road, W11, 203 St Martin’s Lane, WC2, 74–75 St Martin’s Place, WC2, 79 Savile Row, W1, 34–37 Savoy Court, WC2, 78 Savoy Place, WC2, 75 Scala Street, W1, 193 Seven Sisters Road, N4, 107; N15, 162 Seymour Place, W1, 52 Seymour Walk, SW10, 140 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1, 15–16; WC2, 75–77 Sheen Lane, SW14, 147 Shepherd Street, W1, 37 Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12, 141 Sherriff Road, NW6, 101

Sloane Square, SW1, 121–123 Sloane Street, SW1, 112 Somers Crescent, W2, 134 South Audley Street, W1, 37 South Road, St George’s Hill Estate, Weybridge, 176 South Street, W1, 38 South Street, Romford, 188 South Western Road, St Margaret’s, Twickenham, 206 Southampton Row, WC1, 65 Southampton Street, WC2, 77 Southwark Street, SE1, 182 Stafford Street, W1, 38 Stanborough Road, Isleworth, 195 Strand, WC2, 77–78 Strand-On-The-Green, W4, 211 Stratford Place, W1, 52 Strathearn Place, W2, 134 Strathmore Road, SW19, 180 Stratton Street, W1, 38 Stroud Green Road, N4, 107 Swain’s Lane, N6, 103, 220 Swallow Street, W1, 39 Sycamore Grove, NW9, 165 Terminus Place, SW1, 112 Thames towpath, Kew, 199 Thayer Street, W1, 52 Theobalds Road, WC1, 65 Tilney Street, W1, 32 Torrington Place, WC1, 60 Tottenham Court Road, W1, 65–66 Tottenham Street, W1, 193 Trafalgar Square, WC2, 79 Tregunter Road, SW10, 140

Twickenham Road, Richmond, 151 Upper Berkeley Street, W1, 47 Upper Grosvenor Street, W1, 39 Vale, The, SW3, 123 Village, The, North End Way, NW3, 103 Walker’s Court, W1, 214 Wapping High Street, E1, 224 Wardour Street, W1, 17–18 Warwick Road, SW5, 140 Wellesley Court, W9, 99 Wellington Road, NW8, 96 Wellington Street, WC2, 79 Wembley Park Drive, Wembley, 167 West End Lane, NW6, 101 West Smithfield, EC1, 160 West Street, WC2, 79 Westbourne Terrace, W2, 134 Western Avenue, Northolt, 166 White Horse Street, W1, 39 Wigmore Street, W1, 52–53 William Mews, SW1, 113 Willoughby Road, East Twickenham, 152 Wimbledon Common, Wimbledon, SW19, 180 Wimpole Street, W1, 53 Winchester Road, St Margaret’s, Twickenham, 199, 207 Woburn Place, WC1, 66 Wood Lane, W12, 142 Wood Lane, St George’s Hill Estate, Weybridge, 177–178 Wycombe Road, Stonebridge Park, Wembley, 168

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

231

SC h RE uD ERS

lEWiS oh N

about the awfuls Based in the Netherlands since 1951, Piet Schreuders first visited London in 1965 and likes to return as often as possible. A graphic designer by profession, he has also written about American paperback cover art, film background music, photo locations and cats. He wrote a book about cover illustrator James Avati and, with the Beau Hunks Orchestra) reconstructed and revived the music of the Hal Roach comedies. His first Beatles London “discovery” was Rupert Court (front cover and p 13).

He is married and has two adult children.

Having viewed London through blue suburban eyes since 1958 Mark Lewisohn is regularly in the capital and occasionally dwells there. He worked for a while in Broadcasting House (p 51) but for the longest time has earned his crust as a freelance writer – he is presently authoring a concise history of the Beatles and their times in three hefty volumes. Researching their links to London’s streets and buildings is an occupational delight, and yet, oddly, Mark chooses to live in Hertfordshire, one of the few counties in which the Beatles didn’t play. He has two maturing children and is happily hitched.

SMiTh CollECTio N

An on-and-off Londoner since 1961, Adam Smith watches its 1960s bits disappearing with

232

T H E B E AT L E S’ LO N D O N

a mixture of sorrow and relief. He began his Beatles’ London archaeology in 1986 by enlisting Bill Harry’s help to find Sibylla’s (p 39) and finds it hard to stop. He works for a media company, GroupM, in an office overlooking Seifert’s fine 1966 office block in St Martin’s Lane (p 75) opposite the former Coliseum Cinerama and next door to what was London Press Exchange (ibid). He has two young children and really ought to be married by now.

For their help with this edition, the authors wish to thank: Tom Bromley Malcolm Croft Aaron Bremner Jeff Jones Bruce A Karsh Simon Donoghue Julian Carr Andy Neill Simon Wells John McEwen Ron McNeil Paul van den Bos Allan Kozinn Brian Kehew Kevin Ryan Chip Madinger