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PRS for Music

Categories: Music / songs

Previously known as the Performing Rights Society. They have also erected plaques to Squeeze, Jethro Tull and Blur.

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PRS for Music

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Dire Straits first gig

PRS for Music Dire Straits first gigged here, 1977. Presented to Farrer House...

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Faithless

Faithless first gigged here 5 March 1996, Jazz Cafe. PRS for Music Heritage A...

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Madness

Unveiled by Madness, including Suggs, that Londonphile.

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Marc Bolan shrine - PRS

In Respectful memory of Marc Bolan, 30th September 1947 - 16th September 1977...

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Orbital

Orbital first performed here, 18 March 1990, The Garage (formerly Town & ...

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Other Subjects

Haroon Shamsher

Haroon Shamsher

Musician. Born in Bradford. His father was a Bangladeshi immigrant who ran a traditional tape shop in London’s East End. Haroon and his younger brother Farook, started the Joi Bangla Sound System i...

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
Blur

Blur

Rock band. The group originally comprised Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree, and were central to the so-called 'Britpop' music genre. They broke up in 2003 and reformed in 2008.

Group, Music / songs, Seriously Famous

1 memorial
Dave Davies

Dave Davies

Guitarist, singer and songwriter. Born at 6 Denmark Terrace, Fortis Green, Muswell Hill. One of the founder members of the rock group The Kinks.

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
Maurice Gibb

Maurice Gibb

One of the three Bee Gees.

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
Sir George Grove

Sir George Grove

Writer on music. Born at Thurlow Lodge, 74 Thurlow Terrace, Clapham. Although originally a civil engineer (he supervised the erection of the first lighthouse in Jamaica), his love of music drew him...

Person, Music / songs, Caribbean Islands

2 memorials

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Carina Rafling

Carina Rafling

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Adam, Hood, Galsworthy, Barrie, etc.

Adam, Hood, Galsworthy, Barrie, etc.

WC2, Robert Street

We understand the "here" on the plaque to refer to the whole of Adelphi Terrace. Barrie lived at number 3 from his divorce in 1909 until ...

5 subjects commemorated
Jimmy Jewel

Jimmy Jewel

Comedy actor. Born James Arthur Thomas Marsh in Sheffield to a couple of music-hall entertainers.  When Jimmy's successful double act became old fashioned he restarted his career in television in t...

Person, Humour, Theatre, TV & Radio

2 memorials
The Kinks

The Kinks

Rock group formed in Muswell Hill. Their numerous hits include: 'You Really Got Me', 'Waterloo Sunset' and 'Sunny Afternoon'. Founding members were the brothers Ray & Dave Davies and Pete Quaife.

Group, Music / songs, Seriously Famous

2 memorials
Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy

Actor. Born Jessie Alice Tandy in Upper Clapton. She appeared in over 100 stage productions and more than 60 roles in film and TV. In 1940, on the break-up of her marriage to actor Jack Hawkins, sh...

Person, Cinema, Theatre, TV & Radio, USA

1 memorial