Named after but unaffiliated with a political gentlemen's club that existed from 1886 to the 1970s, the Cobden Club was a bar/restaurant that opened its doors in 1996 and closed in the 2010s.

Amy Winehouse had a regular weekly gig at the club singing jazz standards in the early 2000s.

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On July 23, 2011, ambulances arrived at the home of Amy Winehouse after a call from her bodyguard in an attempt to rescusitate her. She was pronounced dead at the scene, with a blood alcohol level more than five times the legal driving limit (0.416%). A coroner's inquest reached a verdict of misadventure. She was 27 years old.

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Actor Ralph Fiennes worked as a porter at this posh hotel before he started being in the pictures. He would reprise his previous career when he played the concierge, M. Gustave, in the Wes Anderson The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).

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Lead singer of Queen, Freddie Mercury, was cremated at Kensal Green Cemetery after his death from AIDS-related bronchial pneumonia on Nov. 24, 1991.

The placement of his ashes has remained a mystery, but a plaque was found in the cemetery in early 2013, causing speculation that they were scattered on location.

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Young John Baldwin (later John Paul Jones) studied music at this boarding school. By the time he was fourteen, Baldwin was choirmaster and organist at a local church. He purchased his first bass guitar that year, a Dallas Tuxedo, partly inspired to take up the instrument after listening to the bass part on the Phil Upchurch Combo's "You Can't Sit Down."

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