
Friday is Rock'n'Roll London Day! Join the Rock'n'Roll London walk this (and every Friday) afternoon at 2:00p.m meeting at Tottenham Court Road Station
Elsewhere in Rock'n'Roll London…
Adam writes… The swinging 60's didn't ever swing as far as the Holloway Road in North London. Yet some of the most pioneering records of the early 60s were made there, in a flat above a leather goods store at no. 304 by the maverick producer Joe Meek.
His story is both a Rock'n'Roll London tale and a London Gothic grand guignol shocker: Meek murdered his landlady and then took his own life in February 1967 in the flat where all his hits had been made.
Here's a tribute on Holloway Road…
I discussed Meek on the London Walks Podcast. Listen here…
And his greatest hits can be found on the soundtrack to the excellent biopic Telstar…
Here's the trailer for that movie…
And here's the trailer for the Rock'n'Roll London Walk…











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