The Great Wen

I am incredibly fortunate to get to meet and write about people and places that have always fascinated me.

BBC Archive recently posted a fantastic video about Time Out magazine in 1978.

It doesn’t happen that often, but every now and then I read a description of London that makes me sit up – finally somebody sees London in the same way that I do!

When I completed Up In Smoke, my history of Battersea Power Station, in early 2016, the power station was still a derelict shell in the centre of a huge building site.

I am not usually the type of person who can summon a quote off the top of their head but one came to mind as I looked around the Rock And Roll Public Library in St Giles.

I have a talk coming up with the Sohemian Society on Thursday December 5, where I will be in conversation with writer and musician Max Décharné about Denmark Street: London’s Street Of Sound.

When I wrote my history of Denmark Street – Denmark Street: London’s Street Of Sound – I delivered what some felt was an overly optimistic conclusion.

I am doing a talk next Thursday (July 11) at the new Meanwhile space, which is just round the corner from Denmark Street, backing on to No 4, where the Rolling Stones recorded their debut album.

Flitcroft Street is the short street at the east end of Denmark Street.

No 4 Denmark Street could be the most important single address on Tin Pan Alley.