London’s Tin Pan Alley – Denmark Street is Europe’s greatest music street. Filled with specialist music shops buzzing with people passionate about music. Everyone from The Beatles to The Stones, to Jimi Hendrix have visited here at some stage. Many of those guys recorded or jammed here in the basements. Situated on the cusp of London’s West End running off Charing Cross Road. It was once the home to music publishers, all of the major UK music magazine offices, recording & rehearsal studios and guitar shops on both sides of the street. Bernie Taupin and Elton John wrote “Your Song”, Elton’s first hit single, at No. 20 Denmark Street. Taupin wrote the lyrics while sitting on the roof (“I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss”) while waiting for Elton one morning. Every British band you can think of have bought and sold guitars here. The National steel acoustic resonator Travers is pictured playing was priced at £2,999 (A$5,800). A bargain compared to the price tags on the pre-owned by Iron Maiden, Joe Satriani & Stevie Ray Vaughan guitars downstairs in the cabinets. But their price tags were not even close to the Jimmy Page pre-owned Gibson Les Paul with the £60,000 (A$116,000) price tag. The answer is no. We didn’t buy any guitars.
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