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Big Al
There’s far too many. You’re better off googling it, quite honestly.
Regarding Cheyne Walk: is it a public road, or gated?
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Hyde Park
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Wembley Stadium (12 shows)
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Wembley Stadium (12 shows)
We're getting a bit archaeological here.
There's a site in Wembley. On it once stood the original Wembley Stadium (built in the 1920's) the venue for many Football finals and where England won the World Cup in the '60s. Also the Stadium where The Rolling Stones played many times (arguably their Home Pitch) and a stone's throw (pun intended) from where Charlie Watts (RIP) "The Wembley Whammer" was brought up. Also the venue for many many historic shows such as the Nelson Mandela concerts and Live Aid in 1985.
That Stadium was pulled down in 2003 and replaced.
I suspect that The Rolling Stones may not have played in the new Stadium.
So, why visit the re-developed location?
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Wembley Stadium (12 shows)
We're getting a bit archaeological here.
There's a site in Wembley. On it once stood the original Wembley Stadium (built in the 1920's) the venue for many Football finals and where England won the World Cup in the '60s. Also the Stadium where The Rolling Stones played many times (arguably their Home Pitch) and a stone's throw (pun intended) from where Charlie Watts (RIP) "The Wembley Whammer" was brought up. Also the venue for many many historic shows such as the Nelson Mandela concerts and Live Aid in 1985.
That Stadium was pulled down in 2003 and replaced.
I suspect that The Rolling Stones may not have played in the new Stadium.
So, why visit the re-developed location?
At least you could visit Wembley Arena (the old Empire Pool) still standing at the same place where The Stones performed a few times in the 60s and of course did those legendary shows in 1973 + 2003.
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Topi
All you gotta do to access the Hot Stuff Archive is to wear fancy clothes, right?
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I do know that Wembley Stadium as of today is not the very same stadium as The Rolling Stones did perform their 12 shows in during 1982-1999. Still, anyone of the 12 x 70,000 fans,i.e. close to one million fans, who went to those shows, do have great memories from the area, arriving into Wembley Park Tube Station, or some of the others nearby, walking up to the stadium, and the shows 1982 (2), 1990 (5), 1995 (3), 1999 (2). Then packed up in an enormous queue back home the same way...
Ahead of the 2012 shows, after they did their rehearsals in Paris, and the club shows there, The Rolling Stones did their production rehearsals at Wembley Arena. Staying in the nearby Holiday Inn and IBIS, during Stones travels, walking to the nearby local pubs in off-show evenings, no tourists, locals drinking the same every night, sitting in the same places every evening, leaving at the same time, it's just a part of the local English pub culture.
For me Wembley will always be one of the key places with Stones memories, walking out of the shows back in 1982, as they played "Land of Hope and Glory", it is 42 years ago, but the memory is still giving me goosebumps, not to mention in 1990, when two of the shows were postponed into August that year, the two last shows with Bill Wyman as a permanent band member on stage.
Then do not forget Charlie Watts, nicknamed "The Wembley Whammer".
If I can, I always stay a night or two out in one of the low priced still great quality Wembley hotels during travels, the train is direct in 10 minutes from Wembley Central station to Marylebone Railway Station.
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Big Al: unfortunately the new Wembley Stadium is notorious for its horrendous sound. It has been reported time and time again. Echoes all over the place. Guardian critic Alexis Petridis wrote this: “the sound at Wembley tonight recreates the experience of trying to listen to Fleetwood Mac with your head submerged in a tureen of soup”
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One must during any London visit is of course:
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The Rolling Stones Museum in London
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