Entertainment venue. Initially it hosted classical music concerts, but after ten years started to include pop and rock events.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Crystal Palace Bowl
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Bob Marley and the Wailers - SE19
The plaque has the Ethiopian/pan-African/Rastafari tri-colours around the edg...
Other Subjects
Elroy Bailey
Reggae artist, former bass player for Black Slate and session musician. Born Hackney. Died in 2018. From HCVS: "Elroy and his brother John Bailey (also a successful musician) set up the local comm...
1 memorial
Marie Kendall
Music hall artiste. Born Bethnal Green, as Mary Ann Florence Holyome. Successful as a male impersonator but also as a woman singing "I'm one of the girls". Toured America and Australia. Grandmoth...
1 memorial
Fitzroy "Bunny" Simpson
A member of the Jamaican harmony trio Mighty Diamonds (see Donald "Tabby" Shaw for more information). Simpson died, aged 71, of a combination of Covid-19 and diabetes just 3 days after Shaw had bee...
1 memorial
Steve Currie
Bass guitarist. Born Grimsby. Joined T-Rex in November 1970 and left late 1976. Went on to work as a session musician. Died in a car crash near his home in Portugal.
1 memorial
Island Records
Record company. Founded by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica. In 1989 it was sold to PolyGram, which was itself taken over by Universal Music Group. In the early days it ...
1 memorial
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