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elcome to Sixties : a place and time celebrated 02 V&A ‘Revolutions’ Shop, It also hosted veteran star bands including The Mothers of 11 , 135 in the latest major exhibition at the Victoria and 56a Invention, and (who referred to the club on In 1965, Beatles manager leased this former CHELSEA Albert Museum You Say You Want a Revolution: The V&A shop has taken up their album ‘The Who Sell Out’). threw a party for theatre as a venue for plays as well as rock and roll shows. The 01 Royal Court, WRecords and Rebels 1966–1970. Throughout the late sixties, , residence at 56a Carnaby Street, here during their 1967 visit to . Experience opened a set here on 4th June 1967 The regularly came into conflict with the Chelsea, and were hubs of creativity creating a temporary retail space with a cover of ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’, from Lord Chamberlain’s Office (official censor of the London stage) and revolutions in music, fashion, food, politics and sex. themed around the exhibition 07 Polytechnic, 309 Regent Street The Beatles album, released just three days earlier. A stunned throughout the 1960s. To evade censorship, the Royal Court In Soho, a thriving centre of the popular music industry You Say You Want a Revolution? Founding members of the revolutionary rock group Pink Floyd: Paul McCartney and looked on in the audience. declared itself a ‘private members club’ and staged socially- for over a hundred years, Carnaby Street showcased the latest Records and Rebels 1966–1970. Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, met and formed Other bands that performed here included: Cream, Procul progressive plays to great success, helping to bring about the groovy fashions. Denmark Street spearheaded the newest The shop, open until January 2017, the band whilst studying architecture here in the early sixties. Harum, , and the Incredible String Band. abolition of theatre censorship in the 1968 Theatres Act. sounds, and hosted the hippest clubs. sells tickets to the exhibition and merchandise including: Originally called ‘Sigma 6’, the band performed their first gigs in Chelsea’s King’s Road was the heart of alternative fashion psychedelic posters; iconic prints; vinyl; fashion celebrating the the polytechnic common room and at student parties. 12 Les Cousins, 49 02 Bazaar, Markham House, and design. Boutiques with psychedelic décor sold clothes era as well as the soundtrack to the exhibition. will This club was extremely popular during the mid-sixties folk 138a King’s Road designed by the likes of Mary Quant and Ossie Clark, serving also host a series of workshops and events themed around You 08 Radio 1, BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place music revival. It played an important part in the careers of many In 1955, Mary Quant opened Bazaar, Chelsea’s dandies, socialites, and rock stars. Say You Want a Revolution? including a series of talks from key BBC Radio 1 was established in 1967 after the Marine progressive folk and musicians, including , Nick a boutique hugely popular among Cheap housing in Ladbroke Grove and , provided protagonists of the late 1960s. Broadcasting Offences Act illegalised ‘pirate radio’ stations. The Drake and . Those artists, perhaps shunned by the the young due to its affordability an affordable hang-out for countercultural artists. The area was earliest disc jockeys at Radio 1: Tony Blackburn, Kenny Everett, more ‘purist’ traditional folk clubs, could be heard playing its and fresh designs. Quant not only home to the underground magazine (UK) Oz. The vibrant legacy of 03 The Bag O’Nails, 9 Kingly Street and Tommy Vance, moved from the popular Radio Caroline and all-night sessions in a décor that included fishing nets and a large popularised colourful tights and the era can still be felt in the sixties-founded Notting Hill Carnival. Opened in 1966, ‘The Bag’ was a popular club providing food and Radio London and gave the new radio station record audiences: wagon wheel. hotpants, but more importantly, So travel back, lose yourself and WALK THE REVOLUTION! drink as well as live music. The Jimi Hendrix Experience played sometimes over 10 million listeners per show. is credited with creating the mini an early UK gig here in December ’66. Famously, it was here that 13 ’s Club, 47 skirt, one of the defining fashions Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman met at a gig 09 UFO Club, Rock and roll clubs weren’t the only places to play host to the rock of the sixties. In 1966 she was CARNABY AND SOHO in 1967. 31 musicians of the sixties. This well-known jazz club saw The Who awarded an OBE, and wore a This short-lived, but influential premiere their rock opera Tommy in 1969 and the venue was the 01 Carnaby Street minidress to . 04 Headquarters, 3 Savile Row club was opened in December site of Jimi Hendrix’s last live performance in 1970. Numerous Carnaby Street has become Apple Corps Ltd. was founded in 1968 by The Beatles. It was on 1966 by photographer and political albums have since been recorded ‘Live at Ronnie Scott’s’. synonymous with the colourful clothes 03 The Pheasantry, 152 King’s Road the roof of its headquarters that The Beatles played their last live activist John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins and pop pyschedelia purveyed by its The ground floor and basement of this building were a , ‘performance’ on 30 January 1969. In an impromptu 42 minute and music producer . It 14 Trident Studios, fashionable boutiques during the with studios and flats above. Famous residents of the late set, The Beatles were heard playing nine takes of five songs, hosted multimedia happenings: 17 St. Anne’s Court . It came to epitomise 1960s included , (of Oz magazine) and including ‘’, before the intervened light shows, avant-garde films, and Trident Studios was the first the ‘Swinging London’ scene – the , who wrote The Female Eunuch here. Legend has and stopped the gig. dance troupes, all to the sound of recording studio to install 8-track term coined by Time magazine in 1966. it that Clapton avoided a drugs bust by escaping through the rear its house bands: Pink Floyd and Soft recording in the UK and it was Owing to the entrepreneurial flair of of the building. 05 Jimi Hendrix’s flat, Machine. A site for acid tripping there, with the aid of the studio’s John Stephen (His Clothes, His’n’Hers), 23 Brook Street and experimental music-making, 1898 Bechstein grand piano, that amongst others, it transformed into a 04 Quorum, 52 Radnor Walk In 1968, already a star in the UK all advertised by the psychedelic The Beatles recorded ‘’ corridor of chic attire for rock stars (The Fashion designer Alice Pollock opened this boutique in 1964. but not yet in his native USA, posters of Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, UFO was a amongst other tracks. Since then, a Who, Jimi Hendrix), actors (Terence The following year, fellow clothes designer Ossie Clark, and Jimi Hendrix moved in to the legendary countercultural haven for the London underground. host of iconic musicians have used Stamp, Julie Christie) and supermodels (Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton). fabric designer, Celia Birtwell joined the company. Here was the upstairs flat at this address with these studio facilities, including:

Victorian militaria and ’20s boating blazers could be bought from place to buy ruffled crepe shirts and gaze at the pop clientele –

his girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham. 10 Denmark Street , , , Kleptomania, whilst Lord John, on the corner with Ganton Street, Beatles and Stones – sampling the exotic snakeskin couture and 1966–1970 Here, he gave interviews, wrote Dubbed the British ‘’, and .

was famed for its eye-catching exterior mural. feathered garments.

new songs, and prepared for gigs. Denmark Street was an established

Today, Carnaby is still the thriving heart of a vibrant area LONDON OF TOUR WALKING A Minutes away from renowned music venues such as gathering place for songwriters and 15 Wardour Street

in Soho. It includes Newburgh Quarter, home to many iconic 05 Dandie Fashions, 161 King’s Road the Marquee and the Speakeasy, Hendrix spent many music publishers before the sixties, Wardour Street was a centre for music and fashion fashion brands; and Kingly Court, a three storey alfresco dining Founded in 1966 by fashion entrepreneurs Freddie Hornik, REVOLUTION evenings wandering this vibrant area, sampling gigs and and both and the New throughout the sixties. Clubs attracting a Mod clientele sprouted

hub with 21 of the best international and UK restaurants, Alan Holston, and Neil Winterbotham, fashion designer John

dazzling audiences. Musical Express were founded here. its length, including La Discotheque, The Flamingo Club, and

cafés, and bars. The louche environment of such as Crittle, and Guinness heir Tara Browne, this boutique clothed

The Rolling Stones recorded at The , which hosted the infamous ‘Spontaneous Murray’s, situated on Beak Street, and the Pinstripe in Kingly the emerging rock aristocracy, from Jimi Hendrix to David THE WALK 06 The Speakeasy Club, 48 Margaret Street Regent Sound Studio and David Underground’ happenings in late 1966, featuring the latest in Court, formed a backdrop to the notorious Profumo scandal of Bowie. It even attracted an investment from The Beatles after ‘The Speak’, inspired by the speakeasies of the American Bowie, Elton John and the Small ‘’ by an early Pink Floyd. the early sixties. the opening of their Apple Boutique on . The artist Prohibition era, was a hotspot for record industry executives Faces socialised at the Gioconda Café. Visit Carnaby.co.uk collective BEV painted the psychedelic mural on the frontage. scouting for emerging British rock bands from 1966 to 1978.

CHELSEA CONTINUED SOUTH KENSINGTON 02 75 Pottery Lane 06 Notting Hill Carnival 02 Studios, 06 The 1966 British-Italian film Blow (memorials to Claudia Jones 3 Abbey Road In 1968 bought 3 Cheyne Walk and lived here Up was a major success on both & Rhaune Laslett-O’Brien on Formerly known as EMI Studios, 01 Victoria and Albert Museum, with his girlfriend Anita Pallenberg. Soon after, Jagger (who sides of the Atlantic. In it, David the corner of / this site was renamed Abbey Road starred alongside Pallenberg in Performance, filmed the same Hemmings stars as a young fashion Tavistock Square, W10) Studios in 1970 after the success You Say You Want a Revolution? year) bought the house at number 48 and had it redecorated photographer and 39 Pottery Lane The annual Notting Hill Carnival is of The Beatles’ 1969 album Abbey Records and Rebels 1966–1970, is by designer Christopher Gibbs in a Moroccan style. Marianne (in reality, number 75), is his studio. a culmination of the visions of two Road. The band recorded the the V&A’s landmark exhibition Faithfull, and later, Bianca Jagger, also resided at no. 48, which The film was supposedly inspired community activists: Claudia Jones, majority of their music here from (10 September 2016 – 26 February was busted by the Chelsea Drugs Squad in a 1969 raid. by the life of David Bailey, who a Trinidad-born journalist, who held 1962–70 under the watchful eye of 2017). The exhibition explores photographed many of the faces the first indoor carnival in 1959 in their producer , but the era-defining significance and 07 , of Swinging London throughout St Pancras Town Hall to celebrate the studios also played host to Pink impact of the late 1960s, expressed 488 King’s Road the sixties. Caribbean culture in the UK; and Floyd, who recorded four albums through some of the greatest These walking tours of London have been Nigel Waymouth (one half of the social worker Rhaune Laslett, who organised a vibrant street here in the late 1960s. music and performance of the created to coincide with a major exhibition graphic design duo Hapshash 03 Princedale Road party and Bank Holiday parade for locals of all nationalities in 20th century alongside fashion, at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Coloured Coat) opened a In contrast to today, Princedale Road was a faded area in Notting Hill in 1965. 03 Zebra crossing outside Abbey film, design, and political activism. From global civil rights, psychedelic boutique here in 1966 the sixties, notable for hosting the HQs of two major Road Studios, 3 Abbey Road multiculturalism, environmentalism, consumerism, computing, with Sheila Cohen and John Pearse. underground institutions of the . The offices 07 I Was Lord Kitchener’s Valet, The setting for one of the most communality to neoliberalist politics, the exhibition uncovers With marble-patterned paper on of psychedelic magazine Oz, which earned notoriety for its 293 Portobello Road iconic (and re-staged) album covers the finished and unfinished revolutions of the time that changed the walls, beaded glass curtains obscenity trial in 1971, were at number 52. Next door, at number Specialising in Victorian of all time: The Beatles’ Abbey Road, the way we live today and think about the future. hung over doorways and an Art 50, was ’s “underground welfare service” , military wear (a mid-sixties photographed by Iain Macmillan Deco Wurlitzer blasting out music, offering 24-hour advice on drugs and the law. anti-establishment trend most outside the studios where the band 02 , the shop was much-loved among famously modelled on the Beatles’ created so much of their music. The On 11 June 1965, this world-famous concert hall staged the the fashionable counterculture 04 Lansdowne Road Studios, Lansdowne Road Sgt Pepper album cover), I Was concept was based on a sketch by International Poetry Incarnation: a formative event in the In partnership with Sound experience by crowd and paved the way for the After Lonnie Donegan recorded ‘Cumberland Gap’ in 1957, a craze Lord Kitchener’s Valet opened on Paul McCartney and the photoshoot took less than 10 minutes to emergence of London’s counterculture. On the bill were many designer boutiques that followed. for (a blues/folk-inspired music genre using homemade Portobello Road in 1966. Among complete. The crossing acquired Grade-II listed status in 2010. seventeen poets, from Allen Ginsberg to Adrian Mitchell, and instruments) spread around Britain. This early chart hit was the boutique’s customers were Eric flowers were handed out to a (partly stoned) nascent 08 Gandalf’s Garden, 1 Dartrey Terrace recorded at the newly-founded Lansdowne Studios (established Clapton, , Jimi Hendrix 04 Decca Studios, 165 Broadhurst audience. The ‘happening’ was captured on Peter Whitehead’s (behind the intersection of Edith Grove and King’s Road) in the basement of a Victorian artists’ studios) and had a and , with fashionable Gardens, 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 – film Wholly Communion, and the hall went on to host landmark Named after the wizard in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy significant impact on sixties British pop. With its top-of-the- crowds following en masse. In 1967 Whilst some of the sixties’ most 26 FEBRUARY 2017 psychedelic rock gigs by Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, and Cream. range EMI recording equipment and supervision by legendary two new branches opened: one in evocative singles such as The (a key text in the countercultural zeitgeist), this ‘tea shop and #RECORDSANDREBELS craft centre’ was home to a whole counter-cultural ‘mystic’ record producer Joe Meek, numerous well-known musicians Fouberts Place near Carnaby Street, Moody Blues’ ‘Nights in White community, founded by Muz Murray. The shop promoted a subsequently recorded albums here including , and another in Circus. Satin’ and The Zombies’ ‘She’s BOOK NOW: VAM.AC.UK/REVOLUTION peaceful ‘vibe’; homeless respite and free food; and hosted LADBROKE GROVE and Georgie Fame. Not There’ were recorded on this V&A MEMBERS GO FREE ‘spiritual meetings’ including popular mysticism, meditation, site, Decca Studios goes down in yoga and the occult. 01 The Westway (1970) 05 25 Powis Square DOTTED AROUND THE CITY history for a very different reason: a little-known group of four From 1964–70, a 2.5 mile elevated and Donald Cammell’s Liverpudlian lads auditioned here in 1962 for a record deal, and With thanks to 09 101 Cromwell Road motorway connecting cult film Performance starred failed. Decca turned The Beatles down. 01 Olympic Studios, 117–123 Church Road, Barnes It was in these flats that , Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon to (the A40) was Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg and 117–123 Church Road started life as a cinema, a theatre, and and their friends prided themselves on providing a safe place built to relieve congestion around James Fox, and was largely set at 05 Morgan Studios, 169–171 High Road, then TV studios, before becoming Olympic Sound Studios in in which to take LSD. In this psychedelic den, music, decor and Shepherd’s Bush. But with 47,000 81 Powis Square (number 25 in Well-visited by some of the key British bands of the 1960s, 1966. From ’s ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ to Led lighting were oriented specifically to enhance their visitors’ cars a day passing above thousands reality), the home of Jagger’s faded Morgan Studios (also known as Morgan Sound Studios) saw the Zeppelin’s debut album, bands that recorded here included Photo credits | Front cover: Che Guevara © Alberto Korda; Twiggy, 1967. Photo by Bert Stern. © Estate of acid trips. of homes, the Westway’s grand rock star character Turner Purple. likes of , Free, Donovan, Paul McCartney, , Bert Stern. Used with permission of Bert Stern Trust; Andy Warhol © Greg Gorman/Contour By Getty Images; The Beatles, The Who, The , The Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix © Joe Roberts Jr; John Lennon © Larry Smart; Allen Ginsberg, 11th June 1965, photograph by opening in 1970 was met with A kaleidoscopic tale of identity, and , all pass through its doors. John Hopkins © Estate of John Victor Lindsey Hopkins | Base map: © Maproom at www.maproom.net | Experience, and The Rolling Stones. Soho and Carnaby Street: 01. ‘60’s Carnaby Christmas’ ©Eric Wadsworth/Guardian/TopFoto.co.uk; protests from angered residents sex and the gangster underbelly 02. V&A ‘Revolutions’ shop (56a Carnaby Street) © Victoria and Albert Museum; 05. Jimi Hendrix © Barrie Wentzell; 09. Poster for The Crazy World of at UFO, 16 and 23 June, by Hapshash and the who’d seen neighbouring homes and streets demolished, of sixties London, it was filmed in Coloured Coat, 1967, London Michael English and Nigel Waymouth, Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, London; 10. The Rolling Stones, 1965 ©Iconic Images Terry O'Neill; 14. Trident Studios © Victoria and Albert and now lived in the noisy shadow of the longest stretch of 1968 and released in 1970. Museum | Chelsea: 02. Twiggy, Ronald Traeger, 1967 © Ronald Traeger; 07. Buy Granny Takes a Trip and Join the Brain Drain!, Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, 1968, Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, London | overhead motorway in Europe. South Kensington: 01. The Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington © Victoria and Albert Museum | Ladbroke Grove: 01. © Ling/ANL/REX/Shutterstock; 02. , 1966 © MGM THE KLOBAL COLLECTION; 05. © Braine/PYMCA/REX/Shutterstock; 06. © John Hannah/REX/Shutterstock; 07. © ANL/REX/Shutterstock | Dotted around the city: 02. © David Magnus/REX/Shutterstock; 03. © Mikael Buck/REX/Shutterstock; 04. The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics, ‘Revolution’ 1968 by Alan Aldridge © Iconic Images, Alan Aldridge

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