I didn't really intend to but I took a walk down Carnaby Street this afternoon, you see as I was wandering down Great Marlborough Street I heard the most amazing piano music. so I followed my ears till I got to the top of Carnaby street and found this chap here playing on one of London's street pianos
He had attracted quite a crowd and rightly so as he was brilliant. If only all the people giving the ivorys a tinkle were that good. There are quite a few of these pianos dotted around the centre of town and I think they are a great way to brighten up the day.
Anyhow Carnaby Street was the centre of swinging London in the 60s and even in the 1980s still had loads of great little shops selling fab gear, like the tiger stripe jacket that I'm now too big for.
Right at the lower end of the Street there is a plaque commemorating John Stephen the tailor who opened Carnaby street's first clothes shop in 1958 and he was soon joined by Mary Quant and many others as London became the hippest place to be. Today its full of chain stores selling stuff you can get anywhere else, but venture off it into Ganton Street and you will find one of the old street's survivors, The Great Frog
This is the place for the coolest silver jewelry around, customers include Lemmy, Pete Docherty, Iron Maiden and Metalicca.
and so to finish off here is the great Ray Davies and the Kinks (who are from my original neck of the woods) with a highly appropriate song
