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Rock ’n’ Roll Soho

A Guided Walk, Hosted by Peter Watts, author of “Denmark Street: London's Street of Sound” (lasts approx. 90-minutes)

0	LONDON: Meet outside Rough Trade
P	Sunday 1st June, 2025
N	2:20pm

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Discover the intertwined history of music and Soho on this walk, hosted by the music journalist Peter Watts. He’ll take you from the earliest days of the music business on Tin Pan Alley through the rock and roll revolution of the 1950s and 1960s through heavy metal, punk, goth and dance to today. See the venues, offices, pubs and studios that made music history for everybody from Lionel Bart to Radiohead via David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Kate Bush and the Sex Pistols.

Peter Watts is the author of “Denmark Street: London’s Street of Sound”. He’s also written about music and all sorts of aspects of London for “Time Out”.