Thread by @NinaBrooke8

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💥The 2i's coffee house in Soho, London.
💥2 eyes
💥Cliff Richard and Tommy Steele...
💥'Home of the Stars'..
WHAT went on there?...🤔

1. Still from 2is set 'Absolute Beginners'...

2. There is a list of names!

3. Why did they rip out the staircase?

4.

5. recordcollectormag.com/articles/a-cel…

6. Owen Sainsbury...
Old Compton Street has an interesting history to say the least!

7. 2ii's
Studio 52 - Great Newport Street

8.

9. WHAT went on in the cellar? 🤔

10. BBC - Six - Five - Special Episode @ 2ii's
Tommy Steele

11. 2iscoffeebar5670.blogspot.com/?m=1

12.

13. recordcollectormag.com/articles/the-2…

14. Black ceiling.
Large stylised eyes.
Cubist shapes.

15. Westminster
Coffee Bars
Rock and Roll..

16. Auditions .. what was required?

17. Frances Bacon.

18. Frances Bacon - 2ii's

19. Illicit roulette wheel..
Lightfoot?
As in "Light in his loafers"? 🤔

20. 'Bacon was shy as a child and enjoyed dressing up. This, and his effeminate manner, angered his father. A story emerged in 1992 of his father having had Bacon horsewhipped by their grooms.'

21.

22. Mona Best - Alice

23. The Casbah Club and Menlove Avenue.

There's a name for a road!
Menlove!
Coffee shops attracted young boys.

24. The Casbah Coffee Club
Liverpool
Beatles
Mona Best - son Pete Best - Drummer

25. Leather goods Aspinal..
Luxury leather.
More kid leather?
aspinaloflondon.com/?gclid=9a5f5b8…

26. Postcards from Paradise.

27. popmatters.com/191143-ringo-s…

28. Pete Murray at the 2i's club in front of the wall of fame. 🤔

29. Pete Murray - dropped from BBC - Savile scandal etc atvtoday.co.uk/207520-ch5/

30. One Big Club..
Reminds me of Andrew at Epstein's house..

31. Waiters ..cleaners..
Lionel Bart //Tommy Steele

32. Mickie Most
MM

33. Peter Grant - Led Zeppelin's manager -
Reminds me of Brian Blessed ..🙄

34. Steaks
What kind of 'steaks' behind the bar of 2ii's? 🤔

35. Wally Whyton.
In 1956, while working in advertising, Whyton formed the Vipers Skiffle Group, which became the resident band at the 2i's Coffee Bar in Soho.

36. Has the entire music industry has been involved in all this?

Is it the same all over? Art, music politics, comedy, theatre, food - all connected? 🤔

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Research by Nina Brooke and David Howey.
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