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Welcome to The Who Location Guide, which as you've probably guessed is a guide to locations relevant to the history of The Who....recording studios, album cover photos, venues, nightclubs, homes, filming locations etc. etc. Being in blog format there's neither rhyme nor reason as to why or when a location is listed - though I will soon be placing all the entries in some kind of order. I

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Just a quick note for those of you who have emailed me asking when the next update will be. It's going to be a rather large entry, so it's taking a little while to get sorted, but sorted it will be. So thanks for your patience...it'll be along soon....

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The Speakeasy club in central London opened in 1966. Until the late 1970's it flourished as a hang-out and after-hours jamming venue for the city's Rock royalty, regularly attracting the likes of Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Rod Stewart, Elton John, Thin Lizzy...and of course, The Who. On March the 16th of 1967 the launch party

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In 1970 Keith Moon bought his own Hotel, The Crown And Cushion. It's located in the sleepy Cotswold village of Chipping Norton (population 5920), 75 miles from London....and 10 miles from John Entwistle's 'Quarwood' mansion. During Keith's tenure as Landlord celebrity friends would often pop into the Hotel's bar for a tipple or three. Who gold discs adorned the walls, but once the

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John Entwistle purchased this Victorian mansion in the mid 1970's, and for the following two decades it was his main place of residence. Built in the late 1800's, the mansion had 55 rooms and 46 acres of surrounding grounds (including 7 cottages). Soon after moving into 'Quarwood' John installed two recording studios - a small one on the upper floor for recording

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Lying to the South West of London, and just North of the small town of Shepperton, is the Shepperton Studios complex. The Studio's huge sound stages and highly experienced staff (who've spent the last couple of decades here working on Alien, Star Wars and James Bond movies) make it a highly desirable filming location for big budget productions. In 1974 Led Zeppelin

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White City is a namechecked on The Who's 'Dogs' single, and was later the title of a Pete Townshend solo album. It's not actually a city, but an area of London just North of Shepherd's Bush. It took its name from the whitewashed palaces and buildings constructed upon the site in 1908 to house the Franco-British exhibition, a showcase for British and French cultural and industrial

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Namechecked on a jingle on The Who's 1967 'Sell Out' album, the Bag O' Nails was a basement nightclub located less than a minutes stroll from Carnaby Street. The club was a popular hangout for Rock stars during the late 1960's, and was a favourite drinking spot of Keith Moon. The Beatles were regulars here, and in November 1966 the club was location for The Jimi Hendrix Experience's

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Located to the West of London, Bray Studios started life as a large mansion house. The property was purchased in the 1960's by the Hammer film company, purveyors of such classic cheesy horror movies as The Curse Of Frankenstein, The Evil Of Frankenstein, The Revenge Of Frankenstein, The Horror Of Frankenstein, The Bride Of Fran...well, I'm sure you get the idea!

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"Down at the Astoria the scene was changing, bingo and rock were pushing out X-rating" Located in North London's Finsbury Park, the Astoria immortalised in The Who's 'Long Live Rock' is not to be confused with the Astoria in central London. The venue originally opened as a cinema in 1930 (as pictured above), and by the 1960's had also begun putting on bands. In 1967 the stage

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The Keith Moon Bar is in The Astoria, central London. This Astoria is not to be confused with The Astoria namechecked in 'Long Live Rock'. That venue was in Finsbury Park, North London. The Astoria first opened it's doors in 1927 as a cinema. In 1976 it was converted into a theatre. Ten years later it was being used exclusively as a music venue. The Keith Moon Bar

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Leeds is a city located in the North of England. On February the 14th 1970 The Who played in the refectory of the city's University, an event immortalised upon the 'Live At Leeds' album. The refectory has a capacity of just under 2000. In 1970 The cost of hire for the venue was £16.10. The Student Union who organised the gig spent just £7.00 on publicity - a single advert in the

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In August of 1965 The Who attempted their first recordings of 'My Generation' at the historically obscure City Of London Studio. According to Pete Townshend these sessions were used by the band's Manager, Kit Lambert, to practise his production techniques. In his book about The Who, 'Anyway Anyhow Anywhere', Matt Kent locates the studio at 9 - 12 Osborn Street, in the Whitechapel area of London

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In the summer of 1965 following a small number of recording sessions at the City Of London Studio, The Who booked into Lansdowne Studios. Shel Talmy had recently agreed to produce the band at IBC studios, but in an effort to best replicate their live sound on tape, Who Manager Kit Lambert felt they needed to rehearse their material further before the Talmy sessions began. So they booked

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The Magic Bus is obviously not a location as such, but is an oddity worthy of inclusion here. There have been 3 'magic buses'. The first of these was the bus used to promote the release of the Magic Bus single, outside the BBC's Lime Grove Studios (pictured below) in Shepherds Bush on October 2nd 1968. The band, accompanied by assorted circus performers, animals and models, took

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The Isle of Wight lies just a 45 minute ferry journey from the Southern coast of England. It measures approximately 23 miles by 14 miles, and as a holiday destination attracts almost 3 million visitors per year. The Who first played here on 10th of July 1965. The venue was the Ventnor Winter Gardens, pictured below. It's likely the band's set included Anyway Anyhow Anywhere, Daddy

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Measuring just 600 feet in length and home to roughly 120 people, Eel Pie Island lies in the centre of the River Thames at Twickenham, just outside London. Pete Townshend borrowed it's name for his publishing company and a recording studio. During London's R&B boom of the early 1960's the island's Eel Pie Hotel was a musical focal point. The Detours, the band later to become The Who,

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Since the 1940's London's 100 Club has been a pivotal venue in the history of every musical genre from Jazz to Punk. However it is rarely mentioned in the same sentence as The Who. But for a brief moment in 1964 this small basement club was the scene for a slice of Who history. It was here on April 27th that The Who's original drummer Doug Sandom played his final gig with

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Above, Manager Steve Strange on the door of Club For Heroes. In the early 1980's Pete Townshend had taken to hanging around the New Romantic scene, a youth sub-culture where posing was de rigueur, clothing was foppish to an outlandish extreme, and extravagant make-up the norm for both sexes. Within this enviroment 'Club For Heroes' was THE place to be seen...and it was here in

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The New Carlton Club was a small Shepherds Bush venue from the Who's history that most fans are probably unaware of. In the summer of 1964 The Who (as The High Numbers) played an audition here for Andrew Loog Oldham, then Manager of the Rolling Stones. They performed a mixture of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Motown material. Loog Oldham liked what he heard, but knowing that Kit

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The UFO was Britain's first psychedelic 'underground' club. It was located in the Blarney ballroom beneath the Berkeley Cinema on London's Tottenham Court Road. It opened in December 1966, and was far more than just a music venue. Attractions also featured hippy stalls, poetry readings, performance art displays and showings of experimental films. It was a psychedelic social centre. Members

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Above, looking down Denmark Street toward Charing Cross Road. Now an unassuming guitar shop at the bottom end of London's Denmark Street, Regent Sound Studios saw the cream of 1960's British rock pass through it's door. The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Jimi Hendrix Experience all recorded there...as of course did The Who, during 1966. The studio itself

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RAK studios opened in 1976, converted from a Victorian schoolhouse. In 1978 The Who attempted some recording and mixing here for the 'Who Are You' album. It was following one of these sessions that Keith Moon was warned he could be sacked from the band. The threat came in the wake of an eventful day spent working on '905'. The session got off to a bad start when co-producer John

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Above, the studio site today, 'Aviation House'. In the late 1960's De Lane Lea studios were located in London's Kingsway. The Who recorded much of the 'Sell Out' album there, and some of their 'BBC sessions' material. The advertising jingles used on 'Sell Out' were concocted between recording sessions by Moon and Entwistle in a nearby pub. There are a number of pubs close to

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In January 1965, having finally obtained a recording contract with Brunswick Records, The Who entered IBC (Independant Broadcasting Corporation) studios. Here they worked with Kinks Producer Shel Talmy, recording their first single 'I Can't Explain'. The band returned to IBC later that same year, again with Shel Talmy, to record their next couple of singles and their debut album 'My

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