Rock group. Lead singer was Freddie Mercury. The band, including Freddie and Brian May, played their first public performance under the name Queen at Imperial College, though Wikipedia says: "On 2 July 1971, Queen played their first show in the classic line-up of Mercury, May, Deacon and Taylor at a Surrey college outside London." 1975 recorded their most successful track - Bohemian Rhapsody. 2014: albums are still being announced.
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Queen
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Queen's first gig
Queen, first public performance in London here, 18 July 1970. PRS for Musical...
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BBC Symphony Orchestra
Founded as a joint project between the BBC and Sir Adrian Boult. It is now the principal orchestra which plays at the Proms.
1 memorial
George Harrison
Musician and songwriter. Born Liverpool. One of the four Beatles. Died Los Angeles.
2 memorials
1 memorial
Samuel Wesley (musician)
Eminent musical composer and organist, second son of Charles and Sarah Wesley. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
3 memorials
The Cimarons
The UK's first self-contained indigenous reggae band. The original members (all from Jamaica) were session musicians backing various musicians. They emigrated to Britain and produced their first al...
1 memorial
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Jonathan Carr
Jonathan Thomas Carr. Founder of Bedford Park, the first garden suburb, in 1875. He lived in the suburb, first at Tower House, since replaced by St Catherine’s Court flats, which he left in 1904 to...
2 memorials
Keshava Raghuveer
Keshava Raghuveer was born in January 1947 and was a director of several companies including Harndale Shipmanagement Services Limited. Electoral registers from 2003 to 2006 show him listed together...
1 memorial
Sir Frank Brangwyn
Artist. Born Bruges, Belgium where his father was working as an architect/artist but his Anglo-Welsh family moved back to London in 1874. Largely self-taught he was skilled in various mediums and c...
1 memorial
Sir Thomas Beecham
Conductor and impresario. Born in Westfield Street, St Helens, grandson of the inventor of the eponymous digestive pills. He began his career as a conductor with the New Symphony Orchestra in 1906,...
2 memorials
Argyll Rooms Concert Hall
The 'Argyll Rooms' venue opened in 1806. A new building was designed, as part of the Regent Street redevelopment, by John Nash himself, to provide a concert hall, other public rooms and shop space...
1 memorial
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