page_title: Wardour Street
section_title: 20th century
hierarchical_section_title: Wardour Street / 20th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Film House, 142 Wardour Street, London. Headquarters of HMV Group plc and former offices of Associated-British Pathé, the newsreel department of Associated British Picture Corporation. Photograph by User:Redvers originally from en:wikipedia, now transferred to Commons. Note that the photograph has been altered by the author since the original upload and that the licence status has changed from Own Work GDFL to the more explicitly free Own Work Public Domain All Rights Released.
context_page_description: Wardour Street is a street in Soho, City of Westminster, London. It is a one-way street that runs north from Leicester Square, through Chinatown, across Shaftesbury Avenue to Oxford Street. Throughout the 20th century the street became a centre for the British film industry and popular music scene.
context_section_description: During this period, it became a centre of the British film industry, with the big production and distribution companies having their headquarters in the street. By the end of the century most of the big film companies had moved elsewhere, leaving some smaller independent production houses and post-production companies still based in the area.
  The Flamingo Club was situated at number 33-37 from 1957 until 1967. The Vortex Club at 203 Wardour Street is mentioned in the song by the Jam, "A-Bomb in Wardour Street". Based in the discothèque Crackers, in 1977 the club hosted early concerts by punk bands such as Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Slits and Adam and the Ants.  Number 90 was the site of the Marquee Club from 1964 to 1988; Soho and Wardour Street are mentioned in the song "The London Boys" by David Bowie and The Marquee Club in the spoken introduction to Long John Baldry's "Don't Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll".  From the late 1960s to the present day, 159 Wardour Street has been the home of the St Moritz nightclub. In 1985, 90 Wardour Street was also the title of the first LP by New York-based garage-pop band Mod Fun. It is now home to a restaurant and bar called Floridita, above which is Soho Lofts, an exclusive block of flats. The Underworld song "Stagger" includes the lyric "I found you shopping in Europa on Wardour Street". A branch of the supermarket Europa was at number 178, which is now a branch of the Ryman stationers' chain. The Eric Gilder School of Music was at 195 Wardour Street (original building now demolished).
caption: Film House at 142 Wardour Street, formerly the headquarters of the Associated-British Pathé film company.
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