There is a tremendous amount of rock "n" roll history in London. this book takes the reader around London, street by street or suburb by suburb, and explains their place in the history of music.

The very first entry is for Oxford Street. This features a number times ranging from the Spencer Davis group playing its first London gig at Beat City 79 Oxford Street), through the Marquee then at 165 Oxford Street where the Rolling Stone played their first gig to Air Studios at 214 and the HMV shop at 353 where Cliff Richard and the Shadows (then the Drifters) cut their first ?0 demo disc. Just off Oxford Street is Great Cumberland Place where, at the Cumberland Hotel, Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose.

Baker Street has a number of mentions. First there is the Gerry Rafferty song and the cover shot for the Jam's Down in the Tube Station at Midnight but we should not forget the Apple Boutique at 94. Near Baker Street is Manchester Square, former home of EMI Records and it was here that the Beatles shot their LP cover for Please Please Me, a shot that was later remade in 1969 and featured on the double album 1967-1970.

The book also takes us out into the suburbs, to Richmond where the Stones and Yardbirds made their names at the Crawdaddy Club and to Ealing which is Who country.

The book is definitely a fun read and inexpensive too.