| Tour meets at Covent Garden Tube | ||
| Guided by Adam |
| Selected Themes, Artists, Periods & Genres |
| Classical, music hall, opera, reggae, the history of recording and rock – Bob Dylan, Gilbert & Sullivan, Maria Callas, Pink Floyd, Thomas Arne, Noel Coward and more |
Musical Covent Garden
From the Opera House to the theatre where Bob Marley became a legend; via the oldest recording studio in Britain (1898) to the hotel where Bob Dylan held court in ’65; from Rule Britannia to On the Street Where You Live – this London Music Tour covers the musical waterfront from Arne to Zappa.
We’ll see…
The Savoy Hotel
The Savoy Theatre
The Gramophone Company’s recording studios 1898-1931
The Royal Opera House
St Paul’s Church as featured in My Fair Lady
The Lyceum Theatre
The Middle Earth Club where Pink Floyd played
From John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera to Bob Marley’s Exodus, there will be cameo appearances from Noel Coward, Alan Jay Lerner, Gilbert & Sullivan, Charlie Chaplin, The Smiths, U2 and – in the best tradition of greatest hits collections – many, many more.
An Eclectic Musical Journey
Adam adds…
I’m very excited about this June 2026 outing of my Musical Covent Garden walking tour – the first on the schedule since 2024.
The walk first went out in January 2020 and to accompany the locations I compiled a playlist.
Back then, before the walk had taken place, my concern was that the tour was, if anything, too eclectic in its scope.
Eclecticism is one thing. But a tour that goes from Dame Nellie Melba to The Smiths via Thomas Arne and Bob Marley is maybe a step too far?
I needn’t have worried – my guests were up for anything and we had fun swooping from Gilbert & Sullivan to John Lennon and on to Pink Floyd via Rule Britannia!
Here’s the Musical Covent Garden playlist. Enjoy…