Denmark Street, London's Tin Pan Alley, where the Sex Pistols met Pink Floyd and a luverly bunch of coconuts, by Peter Watts

As it emerges from the upheaval of Cross Rail, music historian Peter Watts looks at this densely-packed thoroughfare between Charing Cross Road and Covent Garden, which started off selling sheet music, grew into the place where many writers sold their tunes for a few quid while a wise minority hung on and made fortunes, a street that continues to provide a home for music businesses to this day. Includes....

...the Victorian "rookeries" of St Giles

...how a coal mining accident made the street's first big hit

...the true meaning of the Old Grey Whistle Test

...when every office boy played the piano

...how the Beatles changed music publishing 

...how the Rolling Stones made their first (and best ?) album

...how the Sex Pistols and the Stones made their first music yards from each other

...what exactly are they doing with Denmark Street today?

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