The Marquee was a music club first located at 165 Oxford Street, London, England when it opened in 1958 with a range of jazz and skiffle acts. It was also the location of the first ever live performance by The Rolling Stones on 12 July 1962.
The club moved to its best known venue in 1964 at 90 Wardour Street where all the great and good sweated on the tiny stage and almost every major rock band played over the next 25 years. Residencies during th...
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The Marquee was a music club first located at 165 Oxford Street, London, England when it opened in 1958 with a range of jazz and skiffle acts. It was also the location of the first ever live performance by The Rolling Stones on 12 July 1962.
The club moved to its best known venue in 1964 at 90 Wardour Street where all the great and good sweated on the tiny stage and almost every major rock band played over the next 25 years. Residencies during the late 1960s alone included Pink Floyd, The Who, Yes, Jethro Tull, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience who played on Sunday afternoons as part of the 'spontaneous underground'. To find out who was playing on any given night, you could just call in at the 'Ship' pub a few doors away. In 1964 Moody Blues manager/producer Alex Murray used a homemade studio in the garage at the back of the club to produce the classic 'Go Now' single which shot to #1 at Christmas 1964 and film the first ever UK pop video promo. The development of Marquee Studios was...
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