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Former nightclub. It opened in the 1970s, in the premises once occupied by the Flamingo Club. The name was adapted from the 'Whisky a Go Go' club in Hollywood.

2017: Following a comment from Kate Cackhanded Viscardi, who remembers being in the Whiskey-a-Go-Go in the 1960s (and her husband says he was there in Feb '63), we did some digging. We can’t find any site that gives a date when the Flamingo became the Whiskey but on eBay we found a mock British Passport (the old blue hardback with the window for the number) for the “Kingdom of Whisky a’GoGo”. The sales blurb includes: “From the research I have done it appears this "Passport" and the stamp inside saying "Students United Social Association" indicate that this club was attempting to get around the royalty laws in England at the time. Evidently, if the establishment was a school or associated with learning they didnt have to pay royalties to play the music on their jukeboxes in their clubs.   It is stamped {21} Jan 1965 and has the personal info of the individual on the inside. When closed it measures 2.5" X 3.75".

Confusingly the address of a Manchester club is printed on the back but inside the Wardour Street address is printed. Whatever the relationship between these two similarly-names clubs may have been this does seem to be evidence that the Wardour Street Whiskey-a-Go-Go existed in January 1965.