50 Carnaby Street

50 Carnaby Street in London's Soho district was the site of several important music clubs in the 20th century.

James, the Trinidadian journalist George Padmore, the future president of Kenya Jomo Kenyatta, the Guyanese Pan-Africanist T. Ras Makonnen and the Ghanaian politician J.B.

In November 1946, Margaret Cook was shot dead outside the club[6][7] and it was said that guns had to be handed in at the door with coats.

[9] Also in 1946, Mrs Violet Boofty was found gassed in her flat the night after her birthday party at the Blue Lagoon.

Club Eleven had been founded at 44 Great Windmill Street in 1948 as a co-operative to promote bebop jazz.

It was named after the eleven founders who included business manager Harry Morris along with ten British bebop players: Lennie Bush, Leon Calvert, Tony Crombie, Bernie Fenton (1921-2001, piano), Laurie Morgan (1926-2020, drums), Joe Mudele, Johnny Rogers (1926-2016, saxophone), Tommy Pollard, piano and vibes), Ronnie Scott, and Hank Shaw.

[17] The Roaring Twenties opened on 4 July 1962,[18] Count Suckle (Wilbert Augustus Campbell) was the first DJ at the club and also the bouncer.

I was the only black guy there because I was the leading DJ at the time and they wanted a popular 'front' figure to pull in the crowds so I was hired".

[19] The doorman was Charles (Charlie) Brown, the boxer and Jamaican landlord of murderer John Christie at 10 Rillington Place.

[21] Malcolm McLaren thought the name was a reference to the U.S. television show The Roaring '20s which was popular in Britain at the time.

Bob Marley played in 1975 and the club featured an autographed picture of Peter Falk as the TV detective "Columbo" on its walls.

[23] The club was mentioned in the NME Guide to Rock & Roll London in 1978[24] and is thought to have closed in the early 1980s.