You can't always get what you want...

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For the next in our shrines series we stir up that old rivalry, moving from Abbey Road and the Beatles to Kings Road and the Stones.

The Chelsea Drugstore, opened in 1968, shocked Royal Avenue residents not only with its modern glass and aluminium facade but even more so with it's clientele.
Noted in the famous Rolling Stones song, it was also used as a location in the controversial Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange.

“I went down to the Chelsea Drug Store,”

“To get your prescription filled…”

The Rolling Stones, You Can’t always Get What You Want, 1969

SAVE OUR ABBEY?

One of the biggest pieces of music related news around the Western half of London recently was the rumour EMI were to sell their Abbey Road Studio for property developers to turn into luxury flats. This attracted outrage across the media spectrum and the Government rushed through a Grade II protected status on the studios in popular response. But should the studios be protected in their current state?