About Rock Tours of London

My name is Lee and ever since, aged 5, I heard Alan Price’s Simon Smith & his Amazing Dancing Bear in 1967, music has been central to my life; and the ten years that I had my own record shop – Wood Music in Islington – really was my dream come true.

After my shop closed in 2004, I tried my hand at music journalism, but after a couple of years spent staring out of the window, and the occasional published piece, the money ran out and I had to get a proper job.
Then a friend called me to say that a friend of his was bringing her 14 year old, Beatles/Stones-obsessed, son over from Los Angeles, and that she wanted to impress him by taking a walk around London’s famous music locations. Did I fancy showing them around?

That’s how all this started.

Join me, and take a passport back to a time when Elton John served customers in a record shop even though his single “Your Song” was high in the charts, when Bob Dylan accidentally invented the music video and when David Bowie lived in a converted ambulance parked on Denmark Street.
I’ll show you the exact* bit of pavement where Andrew Loog Oldham convinced John Lennon and Paul McCartney to hand over “I Wanna Be Your Man” to his Rolling Stones, where Jimi Hendrix bought his Hussar military jackets and where Mick Jagger bought his white Hyde Park dress.

*It might not be the exact bit of pavement, but, like, really close.