Guitarist and songwriter. Born Washington, USA. View from the Mirror has done a wonderful job plotting Hendrix's London, with lots of pictures including ones we had not seen before taken on the day of his death. Died at the Hotel Samarkand, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, from a drug and alcohol overdose.
See Londonist for more on Hendrix's life in London.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Jimi Hendrix
The Bag o' Nails Club The Jimi Hendrix Experience first played here on the 25...
The web offers up a few Anna Kists but none with the prefix Lady.
Musician and promoter. Died aged 21 after taking the drug ketamine. The picture source provides a lot of information about Louise and about the dangers of ketamine.
An American rock band, previously billed as the Psychedelic Stooges, and also known as Iggy and the Stooges. This photo shows them at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2010. Iggy Pop and the Stooges playe...
Held weekly concerts over his coal merchant's shop in Jerusalem Passage, from 1678. Important composers such as Pepusch and, it is also rumoured, Handel, paid visits to his musical evenings.Popular...
Founded by Eliot Cohen, Ellis Elias and Leslie Grade this studio has recorded Bananarama, Duran Duran, Gloria Gaynor, Billy Ocean, Sinitta, Spandau Ballet, Tina Turner, Alison Moyet, Boney M, Goldf...
Paul Blake, better known as Frankie Paul, was a Jamaican dancehall reggae artist. Born blind, he has been dubbed by some 'The Jamaican Stevie Wonder'. Born and died Jamaica. Guardian obituary.
Anarchist activist and author. Born Italy died, with her baby, in childbirth, in London. We can’t discover when she came here or where she was in London, though she was involved with the Freedom ...
Queen (in her own right) of the Netherlands 1890 - 1948, the longest reign of any monarch of that country. From the Picture source website: "Following the Nazi occupation during the Second World Wa...
The quotation comes from Binyon's 1914 poem, ‘For the Fallen’. The memorial must have been renovated in 2010.
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
An information board near to the Fawcett house plaque gives: "Vauxhall Park was created by a special Act of Parliament in 1888 on land whose history can be traced back to the 11th Century. A group ...
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