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SOHO: PIGALLE LONDON EXTRAVAGANZA

BySpicy Goldman November 16, 2021November 16, 2021
London Soho

We’re back in London’s swinging SOHO again, this time courtesy of Cabaret Queens Quarterly Vol 816 from Summer 1968, which gives us a glimpse into the club Pigalle. Named for the red light district in Paris, this was possibly the same Pigalle that was more of a supper club earlier in the decade and which hosted more mainstream fair, such as Shirley Bassey who recorded a live album there in 1965, and for one evening in the spring of 1963 a little group from Liverpool. According to TimeOut, “On April 21 1963, The Beatles went straight from playing to 10,000 people at Wembley Arena show to a second gig at the Pigalle Club in the West End. Because it was a Jewish charity event and the only advert for the gig had appeared in the Jewish Chronicle, the audience was almost entirely Jewish.” I wonder if any of the Fab Four ever made it back to the Pigalle later in the decade to see the revised floor show…

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