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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

Dame Myra Hess

Dame Myra Hess

Pianist. Born Julia Myra Hess in South Hampstead. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. During WW2, when concert halls were blacked out at night, she organise...

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
Lilian Harvey

Lilian Harvey

Film actor and singer. Born Helene Lilian Muriel Pape in Hornsey. Her father, a German businessman moved the family to Magdeburg. She studied at the dance and voice school of the Berlin Opera, taki...

Person, Cinema, Music / songs, France, Germany

1 memorial
Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Trumpeter. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Nicknamed 'Satchmo' (short for satchel mouth). Brought up in extreme poverty, his musical career started when he learned to play the cornet. He went on to...

Person, Music / songs, USA

1 memorial
Siddy Ranks

Siddy Ranks

Real name: Cyrenius Green. Born Jamaica. His sound is inevitably compared to that of the late Gregory Isaacs, although he is versatile and sings across the Reggae sub-genres. He also performed unde...

Person, Music / songs, Jamaica

1 memorial
Jackie Free

Jackie Free

Trombonist. Born Pearcroft Road, Leytonstone. He learnt to play in the local Boys Brigade band, and during his national service in the R.A.F. he played with many service bands. A high spot for him ...

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial

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West India Docks

West India Docks

A series of three docks on the Isle of Dogs. Their construction was largely the responsibility of Robert Milligan, who had managed his family's Jamaica sugar plantations. He became outraged at loss...

Place, Commerce

1 memorial