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st. peter’s chruch
from the beatles, “eleanor rigby” posted in music by elvis_crabs
On July 6, 1957, John Lennon and his band, the Quarrymen, were playing the annual garden party at this church. In between sets, John's friend, Ivan Vaughan, introduced him to a 15-year-old Paul McCartney. Paul was asked to join the band shortly after that.
Also notable about this church is that the churchyard at St. Peter's contains the grave of Eleanor Rigby, a possible source of the 1966 Beatles song.
John used to be in this congregation with his aunt and uncle, George Toogood Smith, who is also buried in the churchyard. John was in the youth group here and used to sing in the choir occasionally.
view full location details...napoleone pizza house
from tom waits posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
Tom Waits worked the graveyard shift here in the mid-sixties when he was fourteen. In the song "The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House)" he sings "And the early dawn cracks out a carpet of diamond across a cash crop car lot filled with twilight Coupe Devilles," a reference to the Mile of Cars, the historic stretch of National City Boulevard currently home to twenty-one car franchises.
view full location details...linden boulevard
from a tribe called quest posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
"Back in the days on the boulevard of Linden..."
Both Phife and Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest grew up in St. Albans, Queens, New York near Linden Boulevard. Here they are performing on the rooftop of Nu-Clear Drive-In Cleaners in their video for Check the Rhime.
The Low End Theory is one of the top ten hip-hop albums of all time according to me and I'm a hip-hop scholar.
view full location details...johnie’s broiler
from the game posted in movies by mb
Michael Douglas wanders in here disheveled in his once white suit after being buried alive (oops... spoiler... maybe) near the end of David Fincher's The Game. Apparently, this style of building is called Googie architecture, some sort of offset of a futurist style (parabolas and neon and steel) that was popular during the '50s and '60s.
Johnie's Broiler was a restaurant from 1958 until 2001, then a car dealership, then the building was demolished and then later rebuilt in its original style. Now it's a Bob's Big Boy. The Game isn't too bad if you suspend absolutely all disbelief.
view full location details...roundhouse
from the ramones posted in music by donkeyoti
On July 4, 1976, the Ramones played a show at Camden's Roundhouse in London. The Ramones first album had become an underground hit in London, and the show was packed with an enthusiastic crowd.
In the film "End of the Century", Joe Strummer recalls how members of the Clash and the Sex Pistols were helped in through a window by Johnny Ramone. The show had a profound effect on the burgeoning UK punk scene.