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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

The Ealing Club

The Ealing Club

It originally opened in January 1959 as the 'Ealing Jazz Club', changing its name when it became London's first regular rhythm and blues venue. It was here that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were ...

Place, Music / songs

1 memorial
Frankie Vaughan

Frankie Vaughan

Singer. Born Frank Fruim Abelson at Liverpool Maternity Hospital. Known as 'Mr Moonlight' because of his signature tune 'Give Me The Moonlight'. He had some success with cover versions of American ...

Person, Cinema, Music / songs

1 memorial
Marie Lloyd

Marie Lloyd

Music hall artiste. Born Matilda Alice Victoria Wood at 36 Plumber Street, Hoxton. She made her debut at the Eagle Tavern in 1884, using the name Bella Delmere. The following year, she changed her ...

Person, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, Theatre

3 memorials
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
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Composer. Born as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart at 9 Getreidegasse, Salzburg in modern day Austria. (Amadeus was a sort of nickname). His father, Leopold was a prominent musici...

Person, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, Austria

7 memorials

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Willesden Urban District Council

Willesden Urban District Council

Former London borough. Municipal Borough of Willesden 1874 to 1965. In 1965 it was merged with Wembley to form the London Borough of Brent.

Group, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Greater London Council

Greater London Council

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...

Group, Politics & Administration

241 memorials
John Fox Burgoyne

John Fox Burgoyne

SW1, Waterloo Place

The quote is from Shakespeare's play Coriolanus.

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
Joseph William Comyns Carr

Joseph William Comyns Carr

Born 47 Devonshire Street. Author, gallery director and theatre manager. In 1877 he became co-director of the Grosvenor Gallery in Bond Street, which promoted the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brother...

Person, Art, Literature, Museums / Libraries, Theatre

1 memorial
German damage at St John's Lane

German damage at St John's Lane

EC1, St John's Lane, 28

This building was partly destroyed by German aircraft on the 18th December 1917. Restoration completed 1919.

1 subject commemorated