The Ealing Club

ABOUT

The Ealing Club was a basement club at 42A The Broadway, opposite Ealing Broadway station. It began as a jazz club, and on 17 March 1962 Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies started a weekly rhythm and blues night there with their band, Blues Incorporated. The club closed in the late 1960s or early 1970s (accounts differ), and the basement is now The Red Room nightclub; a blue plaque outside marks 17 March 1962.

SIGNIFICANCE

Alexis Korner brought Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones together at the club in 1962, and the Rolling Stones played there through that year. The Who also played there; a 1965 photograph shows them with the club's manager, Fery Asgari.

MUSIC & CHARACTER

SOURCES

Details compiled from public sources. Run this venue? Get in touch to confirm or correct the listing.

1. http://www.ealingclub.com/ealing-club-whats-it-about/ (official website)Ealing Club CIC: Alexis Korner brought Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones together at the club in 1962.
2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41918726 (news article)BBC, 2017: the club began as a jazz club, held about 200 people, closed in 1971 by Fery Asgari's account and is now the Red Room; photo of The Who with Asgari in 1965.
3. https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/ealing-club (official website)Blue plaque: Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies began British rhythm and blues on this site on 17 March 1962.