Wardour Street

On Wardour Street, a Toyota Prius is blasting, rather incongruously, “California Dreamin’ ”; a young man with face painted white, Marcel Marceau-style, is playing the Beatles’ “Michelle” to a nonexistent crowd on Archer Street; and bass reverberates around Great Pulteney Street, emanating from an event at the clothes store Daily Paper.

By the time we got to London, I Want Your Love was in the Top 5 and the queue to see us at the Marquee went right down Wardour Street.

Another punk club that sprung up like the Roxy in 1977, the Vortex is even mentioned in the lyrics of ‘A’ Bomb in Wardour Street by the Jam.

The edgy label, worn by Beyoncé and Alexa Chung, will open its first flagship store on the corner of Wardour Street and Brewer Street.

Another pub for Hendrix fans is The Ship on Wardour Street, close to where the Marquee Club once was.