Fact #186029
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Short story:
The Rolling Stones play at The Station Hotel, Richmond, London, England, UK, Europe, also known as The Crawdaddy Club.
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Eric Clapton : The Crawdaddy Club was only on Sunday nights at the Richmond Station Hotel and, when I first went there, it was like a traditional jazz club that kinda leaned towards r'n'b. Giorgio Gomelsky was running it and I said to him, 'There's this little band that plays at The Marquee and the Ealing Club, called The Rolling Stones. You should get them in." He did.
Giorgio Gomelsky (rock entrepreneur) : There were a few tables in the joint, so I convinced my friend and assistant Hamish Grimes to get on one of the tables so everyone could see him and start waving his arms about while shouting, 'Yeah! Yeah!' and whistling as loudly as he could. There wasn't anything else you could do, the place was so crammed. So, during the last number of the first set, an extended version of a Bo Diddley song, Pretty Thing I think, Hamish gets up there and starts waving away. Everybody looks up and in a split-second they catch on and 200 pair of arms were undulating like crazy! Man, that was something.
Bill Wyman (bassist, Rolling Stones) : The Station Hotel took off in four weeks from nothing to about three or four hundred people.
Eric Clapton : They played The Crawdaddy for a year. They had no manager and, poor Giorgio, it went right by him that he could move in and clean up.
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Giorgio Gomelsky (rock entrepreneur) : There were a few tables in the joint, so I convinced my friend and assistant Hamish Grimes to get on one of the tables so everyone could see him and start waving his arms about while shouting, 'Yeah! Yeah!' and whistling as loudly as he could. There wasn't anything else you could do, the place was so crammed. So, during the last number of the first set, an extended version of a Bo Diddley song, Pretty Thing I think, Hamish gets up there and starts waving away. Everybody looks up and in a split-second they catch on and 200 pair of arms were undulating like crazy! Man, that was something.
Bill Wyman (bassist, Rolling Stones) : The Station Hotel took off in four weeks from nothing to about three or four hundred people.
Eric Clapton : They played The Crawdaddy for a year. They had no manager and, poor Giorgio, it went right by him that he could move in and clean up.