London Soho Music Walking Tour

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This 2-hour walking tour will take you on a musical adventure through London Rock Music history. What’s your genre?! Your talented London Rock Tour guide will tailor your tour to the ‘playlist’ of participants, a fun and knowledgeable musical journey of the capital’s Entertainment District, Soho. Your playlist highlights can include: Early Years — bebop, wartime, skiffle, jazz & blues roots…clubs, theatres, management offices, coffee houses…Flamingo, Cousins, Ronnie Scott’s, 2ii, Roundhouse Barrel & Blues… Classic Rock & Prog — Paul McCartney’s offices; where the Stones and ‘Ziggy Stardust’ ‘were born;’ early gig sites for many in venues like The Marquee…Beatles, Stones, Elton John, Alexis Corner, The Kinks, Led Zep, Georgie Fame, The Who, Paul Simon, The Animals, Jimi Hendrix, YES, Pink Floyd, Bowie, Iron Maiden, and many more; recording studio for Queen, Bowie, Beatles/Paul McCartney, Genesis, Black Sabbath, Kinks, Elton John and many more… Punk New Wave, 80s — Clubs like The Vortex, St Moritz, Le Kilt, Beat Route…The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Poly Styrene, and X-Ray Spex…Warren Zevon, Boy George & Culture Club, Tina Turner, George Michael & Wham!, Dire Straits, Duran Duran…Guns & Roses, Motley Crue; Goths & New Romantics… Today's Pop London – One of Taylor Swift’s End Game video locations; UK film premiere location for films of Beyonce, Taylor Swift & One Direction; a recording studio and hangouts for Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Rita Ora, Dua Lipa, Lady Gaga… Explore the heart of Soho, London’s Entertainment District, from ‘Tin Pan Alley,’ music publishers’ row, to the epicenter of the Swingin’ 60s Carnaby Street. Fashion and tunes. Here is a ‘French Quarter’ and ‘Little Italy’ of London; jazz nightclubs of the roaring 1920s; beatnik coffee houses, skiffle and jazz clubs of the 1950s; here are the ‘basement and attic’ venues for 60s folkies, R&B-ers, and bluesmen who became ‘classic rock’ icons; 70s punks; where New Wave bands started… This area has grown from plague pits to gin palaces to supper clubs to peep shows to posh boutiques. Heaps of musical heritage to uncover with your specialist rock tour guide. Even Londoners say, “I’ve walked by there so many times, but never knew…”.