During a recent visit to London, I was keen to seek out some Beatles hot-spots - after all they were the ones who kept London swinging and everything in the 60s, right?
Apart from the obligatory Abbey Road zebra cossing / studios etc. I also stopped in front of 3, Savile Row, home of the Beatles' Apple Corps (geddit?) offices from around 1968, and also the Apple Studios in the basement. The famous rooftop concert was also perfomed and filmed there on a bitter cold January day in 1969.
Sadly there is nothing to commemorate this outside the building which could only be noted by the Beatle-related graffitti around the doorway. However, as I was there (Aug 31st) scaffolding was being erected on the front of the building so hopefully some kind of restoration is underway in order to bring it up to the standard of surrounding establishments (a well posh area of Regent Street/Mayfair) and to mark that this was the spot where so many great things happened during Apple's permanence in the building. Don't let me down..
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