A BEATLE TOUR IN LONDON
with Dave Jones & Richard Porter
Thursday 27 August 1998
DAVE JONES from Cavern City Tours in Liverpool was our first excellent guide on this historical day, which ended with a visit at ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS.
Dave
Jones outside Indica Gallery
6 Masons Yard. This was the place of INDICA BOOKS & GALLERY. It was opened in Mars 1966 by Barry Miles, Peter Asher and John Dunbar. Even Paul McCarney invested £5000. They supported the underground literature and art scen in London in various ways. This is also the place where JOHN LENNON first met YOKO ONO. On 9 November 1966 John arrived here for a sneak preview of an art exhibition called "Unfinished Paintings and Objects". John Dunbar introduced him then to the artist - a Japanese woman called Yoko Ono.
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Piccadilly. The place of LONDON
PAVILION. Three Beatles films had their world premieres here. |
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London Pavilion |
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Prince Of Wales Theatre |
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3 Saville Row, ex Apple Corps |
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Savile Row was
the place for The Beatles' company APPLE CORPS 1968 - 1972. At lunchtime
on Thursday 30 January 1969 The Beatles had their last live
concert here on top of the roof - the legendary ROOFTOP CONCERT. Situated in the basement
was APPLE
STUDIOS,
where The Beatles recorded the album 'LET IT BE'.
When we stood there, the door was suddenly opened by a nice
gentleman . "Do you want to see the roof?" he asked.
Unfortunately we had to run further, since the last people of our
group just slipped around the corner and cried for us to come
after. What a pity!
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9 Kingly Street was the place for the nightclub BAG O' NAILS, one of The Beatles' favourite places 1967-68. It was here, on 15 May 1967, that PAUL McCARTNEY met the New Yorker LINDA EASTMAN for the first time. |
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Miranda Club, formerly Bag O' Nails |
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NEMS |
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London Palladium |
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Asprey's |
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Trident Studios |
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1 Soho Square is the place of Paul McCartney's headquarter MPL Communications Ltd. |
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MPL |
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Dick James Music and Nothern Songs |
And now it was time for a short lunch. Immediately we ran over to Helter Skelter music-book store in Denmark Street nearby.
In the afternoon we continued our London Beatle Tour with a new guide. Read about it here below.
We start in RUSSELL SQUARE GARDENS...
No, that picture is from 2 July 1964, actually! So they had to be satisfied with these:
"Try to look a little younger!", the naughty Frenchman Jean-Louis told us.
Being in Guilford Street, THE BEATLES were captured at the main entrance of HOTEL PRESIDENT by DEZO HOFFMANN on 2 July 1963, in a single lucky photograph - reproduced in countless publications all over the world.
57 Wimpole Street was the ASHER family's home. Here Paul McCartney's girlfriend JANE ASHER lived with her brother PETER , member of the popduo PETER AND GORDON. Paul lived here too, with the Ashers, between November 1963 till the beginning of 1966. In this house Paul wrote classics like 'Yesterday', 'And I Love Her', 'I'm Looking Through You' and 'Eleonor Rigby'. In Mrs Asher's music-room in the cellar, Paul and John wrote one of The Beatles' greatest hits, 'I Want To Hold Your Hand'.
94 Baker Street was the place of the famous APPLE SHOP 7 December 1967 - 31 July 1968. During its short eight-month tenure, the shop bore two markedly different exterior designs. The first, being a brightly coloured psychedelic mural conceived and painted by THE FOOL (a group of Dutch artists), was the subject of much complaint from local residents and shopkeepers and was duly painted over on 18 May 1968. It was replaced by a plain coat of white paint bearing the word Apple in black script.
34 Montague Square was RINGO STARR's house. He lived here in 1965 shortly before he married Maureen Cox. In July 1968 JOHN LENNON and YOKO ONO moved in. The naked photo for the TWO VIRGINS album was shot in the cellar. Also there , Paul McCartney recorded the demo version of 'Eleonor Rigby' in a demo-studio he had built . On 18 October 1968 John Lennon was busted by a drug squad, who found cannabis. John and Yoko was arrrested and John was convicted later.
Marylebone Station. Here many well-known scenes for the 'A HARD DAY'S NIGHT' movie were filmed on 5 April 1964.
All photos and text by Bengt Wärmlind
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