Tag: “The Beatles”

It was (….gulp) 60 years ago today that the Beatles came to London to play

The Beatles were invited down to London for a recording test at Decca Studios sixty years ago today, on New Years Day 1962. (In those days New Years…

London juxtapositions…

I’ve been re-reading Mark Lewisohn’s majestic biography of the Beatles (or at least the first volume thereof; we fans are still waiting for him to release the second…

A London night out for £4

Sometimes London just thrills me. And it can be the smallest of things. There I am wandering through my life in this city and then I turn a…

A wander in St Pancras Gardens

I had an hour to spare before catching a train from King’s Cross and headed north past St Pancras Station in the direction of the Regent’s Canal I…

London Pubs by Alan Reeve-Jones

I came across this book in a second hand bookshop. Alan Reeve-Jones visits and reviews the best London pubs of his day. Its very much of its time….

The Beatle’s lair

Macca’s business premises in Soho Square. I worked 4 doors up for a couple of years.