Where to Find the Blue Plaques of Musicians and Composers Who
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Where to find the BLUE blue plaques of PLAQUES musicians and TOUR composers who lived in London 1 Bob Marley 5 Al Bowlly 1945–81 1899–1941 Blue plaque Blue plaque 42 Oakley Street, Charing Cross Mansions, Chelsea, SW3 5HA 26 Charing Cross Road, Nearest tube WC2H 0DG Sloane Square Nearest tube Leicester Square 2 Benjamin Britten 1913–76 6 John Lennon 1940–80 Blue plaque 14 Lancaster Gate, Blue plaque Bayswater, W2 3LH 34 Montagu Square, Nearest tube Marylebone, W1H 2LJ Earl’s Court Nearest tube Baker Street 3 Clara Butt 1872–1936 7 Jimi Hendrix 1942–70 Blue plaque 7 Harley Road, Swiss Blue plaque Cottage, NW3 3BX 23 Brook Street, Mayfair, Nearest tube W1K 4HA St John’s Wood Nearest tube Bond Street 4 Ralph Vaughn Williams 8 Eric Coates 1872–1958 1886–1957 Blue plaque Blue plaque 10 Hanover Terrace, Chiltern Court, Regent’s Park, NW1 4RJ Baker Street, NW1 5SG Nearest tube Nearest tube Marylebone Baker Street Bob Marley Benjamin Britten Clara Butt Ralph Vaughan 1945–81 1913–1976 1872–1936 Williams 1872–1958 In 1977 Marley’s record label, Before becoming one of Sussex-born opera singer Island, relocated him first to Britain’s best-loved composers Clara Butt, who counted Composer Vaughan Williams King’s Road in Chelsea, and then to a four-storey Benjamin Britten lived on the top-floor rooms at Edward Elgar among her many admirers, lived at moved to 10 Hanover Terrace with his second terraced house at 42 Oakley Street, along with 173 Cromwell Road – then a boarding house – 7 Harley Road with her husband, baritone Robert wife Ursula Wood in 1953. his band The Wailers. with his sister Beth in September 1931. Rumford, and children, from 1901 to 1929. Blue plaque Blue plaque Blue plaque Blue plaque 10 Hanover Terrace, Regent’s Park, London, 42 Oakley Street, Chelsea, SW3 5HA 14 Lancaster Gate, Bayswater, W2 3LH 7 Harley Road, Swiss Cottage, London, NW3 3BX NW1 4RJ Al Bowlly John Lennon Jimi Hendrix Eric Coates 1899–1941 1940 –80 1942–70 1886–1957 In the 1930s, Bowlly was The Beatles guitarist lived in By the time Hendrix moved Coates created some of the Europe’s most popular singer. a flat at 34 Montagu Square into this flat in 1968, he was best-loved pieces of English He also toured the US and recorded a total of for five months in 1968, while the Fab Four were a bona fide rock god, having arrived in London only light orchestral music, including By the Sleepy Lagoon over 600 78rpm records between 1927 and 1941. recording The White Album. two years earlier as a barely known guitarist. – still the theme to Desert Island Discs. Blue plaque Blue plaque Blue plaque Blue plaque Charing Cross Mansions, 26 Charing Cross Road, 34 Montagu Square, Marylebone, London, 23 Brook Street, Mayfair, London, Chiltern Court, Baker Street, London, London, WC2H 0DG W1H 2LJ W1K 4HA NW1 5SG.