Rock group. Lead singer was Freddie Mercury. The band, including Freddie and Brian May, played their first public performance under the name Queen at Imperial College, though Wikipedia says: "On 2 July 1971, Queen played their first show in the classic line-up of Mercury, May, Deacon and Taylor at a Surrey college outside London." 1975 recorded their most successful track - Bohemian Rhapsody. 2014: albums are still being announced.
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Queen
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Queen's first gig
Queen, first public performance in London here, 18 July 1970. PRS for Musical...
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Argyll Rooms Concert Hall
The 'Argyll Rooms' venue opened in 1806. A new building was designed, as part of the Regent Street redevelopment, by John Nash himself, to provide a concert hall, other public rooms and shop space...
1 memorial
Albert William Ashmore
Salvationist and Christmas carol concert founder. Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has discovered that the year of his death on the memorial plaque attached to the Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon ...
1 memorial
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...
2 memorials
Roxy Club
Nightclub in which the British punk music scene flourished. Groups such as The Stranglers, The Buzzcocks and Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Clash, The Damned, Generation X, The Slits, Adam & th...
1 memorial
Reverend Augustus M Toplady
Cleric and hymn writer. Born Augustus Montague Toplady in Farnham, Surrey. His family moved to Ireland, and he attended Trinity College, Dublin. He was a follower of John Wesley and converted to Me...
1 memorial
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