Updated 4th July Adam writes… Another two old friends hit the streets this month! Rock’n’Roll Pub Walk with LIVE Music From Your Guide and The Rock’n’Roll Pub Quiz Walk join the schedule.
The Rock’n’Roll London Pub Walk With LIVE Music From Your Guide is one of the most popular on the schedule and it has a new home. The tour will return to its traditional Wednesday night slot. There are only 4 outings this summer and each is certain to sell-out.
I’ve also added an EXTRA Bob Dylan tour. Since the release of the movie A Complete Unknown, this has been a hugely popular walk. Every outing in 2025 so far has sold out. Scroll down for the full July schedule.
The Pub Quiz Walks had their first outing way back in 2009 – it’s a walking tour AND a pub quiz, with prizes!
As usual, all tours can be booked as private tours subject to availability.
Don’t forget to scroll down past the schedule for some bonus content.
See you out there!
All best,
Adam
JULY 2025
⚠️SOLD OUTWednesday 2nd July – 6.30pm (1830) – The Rock’n’Roll Pub Walk With LIVE Music From Your GuideSOLD OUT⚠️
Saturday 5th July – 10am (1000) – The Great West End Record Store Crawl
Sunday 6th July – 10.45am (1045) – Musical Statues
Wednesday 9th July – 2pm (1400) – The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour With London Walks
⚠️SOLD OUTWednesday 9th July – 6.30pm (1830) – The Rock’n’Roll Pub Walk With LIVE Music From Your GuideSOLD OUT⚠️
Wednesday 16th July – 6.30pm (1830) – The Rock’n’Roll Pub Walk With LIVE Music From Your Guide
Friday 18th July – 9.30am (0930) – The Rock’n’Roll Explorer Day Barnes, Twickenham & Richmond
NEW! Monday 21st July – 7pm (1900) – The Great Rock’n’Roll Pub Quiz Walk – Soho Edition
⚠️SOLD OUT Friday 25th July– 10.45am – A Complete Unknown – Bob Dylan In 60s London SOLD OUT⚠️
❗️EXTRA WALK ADDED Friday 25th July– 2pm (1400) – A Complete Unknown – Bob Dylan In 60s London
Sunday 27th July – 10.45am (1045) – The Kinks In North London
Sunday 27th July – 2.30pm (1430) – London In the Swinging 60s
NEW! Monday 28th July – 7pm (1900) – The Great Rock’n’Roll Pub Quiz Walk – Covent Garden Edition
Wednesday 30th July – 6.30pm (1830) – The Rock’n’Roll Pub Walk With LIVE Music From Your Guide
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Plaque Of the Month
Singer Alma Cogan’s plaque can be found on High Street, Kensington…
The brightest British star of the pre-Beatles era, Alma Cogan enjoyed chart success with her breezy, traditional pop tunes from 1954 to 1960.
Her cheerful style (she was billed as “The Girl with the Laugh in her Voice”) took her to Number 1 with Dreamboat in 1955 and an appearance on the fabled Ed Sullivan Show in 1957.
Her Blue Plaque is on the apartment block where she lived and staged her legendary showbiz parties. On any given night at 44 Stafford Court, High Street Kensington one could run into Lionel Bart, Cary Grant, Michael Caine or Noel Coward.
Lennon and McCartney were no strangers to Alma’s famous parties – Alma and The Beatles first met at rehearsals for TV’s Sunday Night At the London Palladium in 1964. Lennon nicknamed her Sarah Sequin. Rumours persist that the two had an affair.
Alma was one of the first ports of call for McCartney when he composed what would become Yesterday. Beatle legend tells us that the song arrived to McCartney in a dream, and he wasn’t completely sure if the song was perhaps a “borrowed” melody from another, older tune. In checking it with Cogan – an expert in the field of showtunes and American Songbook – the singing star seems to have assumed that the Beatle was offering her exclusive recording rights to the song.
While she did go on to record the number (along with Ticket to Ride and Eight Days A Week) she was just one of many. It’s often said that Yesterday is the most recorded pop song of all time.
A Londoner through-and-through, she was born in Whitechapel as Alma Angela Cohen to Russian Jewish immigrant parents and lived in Kensington for fifteen years until her death, at the age of 36 from ovarian cancer, in 1966.
For an excellent general tour of the Kensington area, visit the famous London Walks company’s website HERE.
This Month’s Playlist
Something a little different this month, a little “light classical” with Phyllis Tate’s delightful London Fields…
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