The nearest stations to the Rugby Ground are (British Rail) Twickenham or Whitton (both about 20 mins walk). Twickenham isn't on the Underground - you'd have to get from Ealing Common to Richmond and then change. If you plan to come by public transport you might do better to try areas that are on the same British Rail lines as Twickenham/Whitton - line runs out of Waterloo through
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Or how about this idea?
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WOT = correct Cockney spelling of WHAT (as in WOT, NO PAINT IT BLACK THIS CONCERT?)
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Physically, there's not much left. Above link shows the Station Hotel when it had become the Bull & Bush - unfortunately the new owners have repainted it and obliterated the sign that used to be over the door giving some of its history. The "back room" where the Crawdaddy happened I think no longer exists. The Island Hotel burned down some time in the 70's (coi
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Well, the present day Eel Pie Club attracts a lot of people from that generation and I think someone there is researching for a history of Eel Pie Island and the music scene there in the 60's (don't know how far they've got yet). Last night I was certainly talking to a bloke who said he used to go to see "all those guys" on the Island. We were listening to Art Wood&#
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Around and Around Mother's Little Helper (Oi!) Playing with Fire How about using Not Fade Away instead of Satisfaction sometimes? Would make a great opener OR closer... The Spider and the Fly
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Can't place the exact quote, but when Keith was asked for the nth time about the Golden Age in the Stones' past, he said something like: Well, we'll never be there again. But that doesn't mean we won't be somewhere else... I for one am very happy for the Stones to carry on finding out where "somewhere else" is for as long as they like.
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It's a close call, but much as I love the recent stuff it's the early morning of their career that still reminds me most of why I love this band. Probably a BIG nostalgia factor involved (I had the undeserved good luck to be 13, in Richmond, in 1963) but there's not a lot I can do about that.
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Twickenham 22nd arrived this morning (Ticketmaster).
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