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stonehearted
Another look at the interior of The Red Room - Ealing Club, May 2012.
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In the right-hand side of the photo below, you will notice the letters ABC--for the Aerated Bread Company tea shop. Ealing Jazz Club was located in the basement of the ABC building.
Ealing Broadway Station opposite the Ealing Jazz Club.
Doorway of Ealing Jazz Club.
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stonehearted
In the right-hand side of the photo below, you will notice the letters ABC--for the Aerated Bread Company tea shop. Ealing Jazz Club was located in the basement of the ABC building.
Ealing Broadway Station opposite the Ealing Jazz Club.
Doorway of Ealing Jazz Club.
You've mixed up buildings, it wasn't the basement of the ABC tea shop building.
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Entrance to alleyway leading to the site of Ealing Jazz Club, now The Red Room nightclub.
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As Keith has pointed out, the true 50th anniversary of The Rolling Stones is marked by the first time Charlie joined the band onstage to round out the classic lineup at Ealing Jazz Club on Saturday 12 January 1963.
Works for me.
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If January 12, 1963 is going to be Keith's 50 years then January 11th, 2013 is the celebratory day of 50 years. In two more days it will be exactly 50 years since Charlie played his first gig as a Rollin' Stone.
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If January 12, 1963 is going to be Keith's 50 years then January 11th, 2013 is the celebratory day of 50 years. In two more days it will be exactly 50 years since Charlie played his first gig as a Rollin' Stone.
So when did they become The Rolling Stones? I don't remember that one.
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If January 12, 1963 is going to be Keith's 50 years then January 11th, 2013 is the celebratory day of 50 years. In two more days it will be exactly 50 years since Charlie played his first gig as a Rollin' Stone.
So is New Year's Day really DEC 31?
And New Year's Eve DEC 30?
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If January 12, 1963 is going to be Keith's 50 years then January 11th, 2013 is the celebratory day of 50 years. In two more days it will be exactly 50 years since Charlie played his first gig as a Rollin' Stone.
So when did they become The Rolling Stones? I don't remember that one.
Friday 11 January 1963 is the date of the last gig that Tony Chapman played with The Rolling Stones at the Ricky Tick in Windsor. By the way, the days of the week in 2013 are the same as they were in 1963--Friday 11 January now was also Friday 11 January then.
To answer your question about the "g" in Rolling, most sources agree that this change seems to have come about at the same time Keith Richards had the "s" dropped from his surname--that is, at the behest of Andrew Loog Oldham as soon as he took the reigns of manager in May 1963. Here's an overview from an online source:
The Rolling Stones Cut a Record Deal
In 1963, the Rollin’ Stones signed with a manager named Andrew Oldham, who had been helping to promote the Beatles. Oldham saw the Rollin’ Stones as the “anti-Beatles” and decided to promote their bad-boy image to the press. Oldham also changed the spelling of the band’s name by adding a “g,” making it “Rolling Stones” and changed Richards’ last name to Richard (which Richard later changed back to Richards).
Taken from: history1900s.about.com/od/people/a/Rolling-Stones.htm
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Entrance to alleyway leading to the site of Ealing Jazz Club, now The Red Room nightclub.
The plaque is on the building(jeweller/solicitor/auctioneer) to the left at the top of the alley/stairway. The Ealing club is at the bottom of the stairwell on the left underneath the same building.
Maybe the ABC was in that building in 1962/63, but it's further up the road on the right in that black and white photo.
Dunno why they choose to say it was in the basement of the ABC. According to the black and white pic, The ABC would have been where the 8 Treasures is in this modern day photo...
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Green Lady
It's Hetherington and Secrett who were Estate Agents, Auctioneers, Surveyors and Valuers - several bits of that row of shops seem to belong to them, and they might be one of the business ancestors of the present-day Haart, just as the solicitors Lambert Hale and Proctor on the floor above are now part of Montague Lambert & Co - whose website mentions that they started business in Ealing Broadway. Hetherington & Secrett have a board up over the entrance to the alley in that old picture - I wonder if the Ealing Club's premises began life as their basement?
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Entrance to alleyway leading to the site of Ealing Jazz Club, now The Red Room nightclub.
The plaque is on the building(jeweller/solicitor/auctioneer) to the left at the top of the alley/stairway. The Ealing club is at the bottom of the stairwell on the left underneath the same building.
Maybe the ABC was in that building in 1962/63, but it's further up the road on the right in that black and white photo.
Dunno why they choose to say it was in the basement of the ABC. According to the black and white pic, The ABC would have been where the 8 Treasures is in this modern day photo...
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Green Lady
The present-day 42 is Haart, and (not being an Ealing resident) I'd say there isn't any evidence that the ABC was ever in that building (unless, of course, somebody out there knows different).
Maybe the point is that the ABC were a well-known national chain of tea-shops with a big clear shop sign, so therefore much easier to give as a landmark in directions than the unfamiliar Hetherington and Whatsit.
PS: paulywaul seems to have been a customer of the Ealing ABC...
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the upcoming gigs running from the 14th-16th of February should be great.