51 years ago yesterday The Beatles played their famous rooftop concert atop their record company's headquarters at 3 Savile Row, which is now a children's Abercrombie & Fitch:
The Beatles purchased 3 Savile Row in 1968 as the headquarters for Apple Corps. They constructed a studio in the basement, which they used to record the second half of their Get Back/Let It Be sessions. Harry Nilsson, Badfinger, Marc Bolan and others also recorded there before Apple sold the building in 1976. It changed hands a number of times over the years until it was purchased by Abercrombie & Fitch in 2012. A children’s clothing store currently resides in the building’s ground floor — throwing London tailors, historians and Beatle fans into an uproar.
"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from
those soap commercials (RIP), “didn't you go to the building in 2015?"
Sigh. Of COURSE I've been to the building, motherscratchers!
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