Melody Maker Started out at number 19 in 1926. Next door at number 20 Sir Elton John, then simply plain old Reg Dwight, worked as the office boy for Mills Music and was paid £5 per week in 1965. Paul Simon walked in one day with two new songs, "The Sound of Silence" and "Homeward Bound", which was exactly where he was told to go when Mills turned him down.

At number 21 Marty Wilde, Adam Faith to name a few were always hanging around to see if song writer Lionel Bart working for publisher Peter Maurice Music had anything songs for them.

Number 22 in the basement The Small Faces, Manfred Mann recorded there in 1964, upstairs Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Pete Townsend brought their guitars from Rhodes Music, while Bob Dylan in Don't Look Back said. "Wow they don't have guitars in the States like that man."

Number 25 The Kinks, the Troggs and many other groups were working all day and all of the night recording for Denmark Productions.

Across the Street Embassy Sound Studios that made all the cheap Woolworth covers on the Embassy Records label. Cat Stevens local boy from over the road made his first record here for the Embassy label under his real name Steven Georgiou. The Rolling Stones recorded their first Album in this recording Studio for Decca Records.

Number 5 Where the New Musical Express began.

Number 6 The Sex Pistols lived above the shop in 1975. Next door to that was La Gioconda Restaurant where David Bowie, Stevie Marriott and The Small Faces would hangout.

So you can see how Tin Pan Alley become the street of Rock 'n Roll.

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