April 2016 is Music Month on The Daily Constitutional!
A London commemorative plaque for every day in 2016.
The plaques are selected from all walks of life, and all points of the London compass – and I'm taking requests too!
DROP ME A LINE or leave a comment below if you'd like to nominate a plaque for inclusion in the series
Rock and Roll is Here to Stay! Commemorating The Two I’s Coffee Bar on Old Compton Street W1
As The Cavern is to Liverpool, so the Two I’s Coffee Bar is to London. Billed, quite rightly, as The Birthplace of British Rock’n’Roll, the Two I’s Coffee Bar rode the skiffle boom of the late 1950s, providing a stage for the fledgling rockers of the day.
The list of stars “discovered” here reads like a who’s who of pre-Beatles music: Tommy Steele, Cliff Richard, Hank Marvin (of the Shadows), Wee Willie Harris, Joe Brown, Screaming Lord Sutch and Tony Sheridan – who was backed by The Beatles on the fabled Polydor recording of My Bonnie, cut in Hamburg.
Old Compton Street is here…
Here's the great Wee Willie Harris and his Rockin' At the 2 I's (1957)…
To mark the occasion, April is Music Month on The Daily Constitutional!
A month of plaques, locations, facts, reviews and more lies ahead. And I'm compiling the Ultimate London Playlist – get in touch with your favorite London song or piece!
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