Virtual London Calling – The 1960s In Music
Walk Times
| Day | Walk Type | Start Time | End Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 February 2021 | Special | 7 pm | 8 pm | Winter |
London Calling! The 1960s In Music
A series of 6 Virtual Tours – Subscribe to the whole season for just £36
SIX virtual tours going out LIVE over six weeks
Season Membership includes access to recordings of the tours to watch at your leisure*
London Calling! The 1960s
Tour One Monday 15th February 7 pm:
Rock’n’Roll London
Tour Two Monday 22nd February 7 pm:
Bob Dylan In London
Tour Three Monday 1st March 7 pm:
Beatles & Rolling Stones
Tour Four Monday 8th March 7 pm:
Beatlemania!
Tour Five Monday 15th March 7 pm:
The Kinks
Tour Six Monday 22nd March 7 pm:
Pink Floyd
Wherever you are In the world, whatever the size of your group , no social distancing, no masks just great storytelling and music history from a qualified, award-winning tour guide.
Buy Season Membership for all 6 tours for just £36. Scroll down for more details.
Tickets for individual tours are also available at £10 each.
*Don’t worry if you miss an episode or two – with membership you can enjoy recordings of these virtual tours right up to the end of December 2020.
Tour One: Rock’n’Roll London
Monday 15th February 2021
Live 7 pm via Zoom
In the 1960s all roads lead to London… but why?
In this opening episode we’ll look at the archaeology of rock’n’roll in London – the social and political
A kaleidoscope of Skiffle, Jazz and Music Hall against a backdrop of Blitzed-out London, rationing, compulsory military service, the art schools and the long shadow of war.
Coffee shops, the old-school Tin Pan Alley showbiz regime of Denmark Street, the history of the theatre in the West End and the first tentative steps on the road to the Beatlemania and beyond.
The stars of Episode One of London Calling! will include: Lonnie Donegan, Cliff Richard, Chris Barber, Billy Fury, Leadbelly, Bill Haley and Elvis.
Tour Two: Bob Dylan
Monday 22nd February 2021
Live 7 pm via Zoom
Part Two of our series is a virtual tour in search of Bob Dylan in London 1962 – 1966 – a celebration of his life and work in words AND music.
We’ll look at how Dylan influenced the British artists of the day, and what he took away from his trips to London.
Along the way we will visit…
• The hotel where Dylan held court
• The pubs & coffee bars of Dylan’s first visit in ‘62
• The famous Troubadour Club in Earl’s Court
Music history, criticism, legend and lore.
Follow Me Down To… The Savoy Hotel, The Royal Festival Hall, The Royal Albert Hall as well as the long-gone locations… Dobell’s Music Shop and Bunjies Coffee Shop.
This is Bob Dylan’s London in the 1960s.
The stars of Episode Two of London Calling! will include: Marianne Faithfull, Joan Baez, the Animals, Allen Ginsberg and Donovan.
Tour Three: The Beatles & The Rolling Stones
Monday 1st March 2021
Live 7 pm via Zoom
The Beatles or The Rolling Stones? Who’s your favourite?
The biggest names in Rock’n’Roll. Made right here in London. Rivals? Enemies? Friends or foes?
Our tour visits their places, unravels the myths, looks at the music – and with each new anecdote we will see how the story of pop and rock advanced with their every move.
Crucially we will look back to the sounds of Black America – the music of the Mississippi Delta through the prism of Chicago, the electric music that charged a generation of suburban English kids from Dartford, Kent to Woolton, Lancashire.
In Richmond, Chelsea and Soho
The world was never the same again
Tour Four: Beatlemania! 1961-1965
Monday 8th March 2021
Live 7 pm via Zoom
From the freezing blue winter of ’61/’62 to the Day-Glo threshold of the Summer of Love via the White Hot Heat of political, social and artistic upheaval… this is the rise, rise and RISE of The Fab Four – the optimistic years.
There’s a place… Piccadilly Circus for the glamorous premiere of A Hard Day’s Night; The theatre where Beatlemania was born; The club where George & John to their first acid trip; The old HMV shop where a Brian Epstein chance encounter change the path of pop culture
The Period… The BBC and the pop music “ban”. The fall of a government under the weight of a sex scandal. The Ban The Bomb marches from Trafalgar Square.
Tour Five: The Kinks
Monday 15th March 2021
Live 7 pm via Zoom
We are the Fortis Green Preservation Society! How three Muswell Hillbilly Boys (and a would-be Stone who passed over the river from down Richmond way) became Well Respected Men. A virtual tour in search of The Kinks in their glory days.
Ready, Steady, Go… 5 years that changed the face of pop & rock 1964-69… 4 of the unlikeliest pop stars of all-time… 3 number one hits… 2 warring brothers… 1 unique story
Tour Six: Pink Floyd
Monday 22nd March 2021
Live 7.00 pm via Zoom
In search of the London locations of one of the world’s biggest bands. Pigs WILL fly as we hit Regent Street Polytechnic, Battersea, Tottenham Court Road, Covent Garden is search of the band’s 1960s genesis and early 1970s pomp.
When we’ve found Pink Floyd’s London our 1960s story draws to a close as the music goes off to bigger, and darker things…
Have a cigar, you’re gonna go far…
London Calling! Season Membership
Season membership is £36 – that’s £6 per tour as opposed to £10 per individual tour.
Tickets for individual tours are also available, subject to availability.
The tours will be recorded, membership will give you access to the recordings until the end of March 2020. So plenty of time to catch up if you can’t join in live. Or, if the time slots don’t suit you, buy membership and you can watch each tour at whatever time you like, they will be uploaded after each individual instalment has taken place.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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