"The Eel Pie Island Hotel"
Tuesday 30 January 2007 13:30-14:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Repeated: Saturday 3 February 2007 15:30-16:00 (Radio 4 FM)

Lead singer with Manfred Mann, Paul Jones, looks back at the colourful history of The Eel Pie Island Hotel in Twickenham. In the late 1800s, Charles Dickens described the hotel as a 'place to dance to the music of the locomotive band'.

In the 1950s crowds flocked to the free jazz club that the hotel became, and in the '60s it became a regular haunt of R&B musicians, Rod Stewart, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, The Yardbirds, The Who, and many a barefooted hippy tempted over the bridge by the promise of a free party.

Demolished in a mysterious fire in 1971, the hotel's history is preserved in the stories, poems and songs of the old islanders and musicians who played there - like George Melly, Ian McLagan and Ronnie Wood.

Another great BBC documentary with loads of Stones related material -
Show here (25.9 MB at 128kbps), 28mins, 19 secs:
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Cheers.

Zagalo, you are a great post-man, i dont know if it means what i want to tell you.....now i have some space in my pc, im looking some 81/81 stuff. and i think you re one of the most hardcore fans, so, Hampton 81 second show, or MSG 81, lousville 81. any notice about these?

Thanks for the kind words but you do me too much credit... :-)
Just filling in the (small) gaps left by the mighty posters Cafaro, Urban Steel, etc. who do us all proud...

Sorry, don't have the concerts you mentioned...my next post is likely to be the early 60s stuff (Songbook, Reelin and Rockin) I have posted before but this time in FLAC format for those of us who love the lossless stuff when we are lucky enough to get it...

Cheers.

Many thanks