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40 years ago today, on March 13th 1964, the legendary Marquee club in London reopened at 90 Wardour Street in Soho.

The Marquee club is the known as the most important venue in the history of European rock music. The club was originally opened on April 1958 on 165 Oxford Street becoming an important place for the jazz and rhythm & blues scene where the Rolling Stones played their first gig ever in July 1962 and bands like The Yardbirds and Eric Burdon and the Animals would be regulars.

90 Wardour was it’s most famous location, right in the neuralgic center of the music city life. The opening night at Wardour street featured Long John Baldry and the Hoochie Coochie Men (feat. Rod Stewart).

The Marquee club became the most important venue for the emerging British scene and witnessed the birth and rise of some of the most important artists in the 60’s and 70’s such as Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Cream, Pink Floyd, Elton John, The Who, The Nice, Yes, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Moody Blues, and many others. In the late 70’s it was also one of the main clubs to host the British punk scene with bands such as The Clash, Ultravox, The Pretenders, The Police, The Cure, Joy Division, The Damned, Generation X, Siouxie and the Banshees, and The Sex Pistols.

In the 80’s, the club was relocated to 105 Charing Cross and the original building was demolished, which represented a terrible and irreplaceable loss for the history of the city and rock music . Today the Mezzo restaurant takes it’s place. the Marquee club was later relocated in different spots throughout the years.

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