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Studio used by Hendrix, Bowie and the Stones to reopen after decades silent

September 20, 2025

The Regent Sounds recording studio on “Tin Pan Alley” in London was famously used by Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and the Rolling Stones between the 1960s and early 1980s. Now, having been walled up and lain silent for decades, it is being brought back to life through a multimillion-pound investment that will turn it into […]

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London’s lost venues – in pictures

May 30, 2020

The Stranglers onstage at the Nashville Rooms in 1977. The pub was one of the high spots of the London punk and new-wave circuit. Photograph: Ray Stevenson/REX/Shutterstock AC/DC on stage at the Nashville Rooms, which were on North End Road in Kensington, on 27 May 1976. Live music stopped in 1980 and the venue is […]

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