Vintage photos of The Sex Pistols, Tom Jones and Paul Weller feature in Carnaby Echoes exhibition

Previously unseen pictures celebrating the musical heritage of Carnaby Street go on display
THE SEX PISTOLS IN CARNABY STREET - 1976 - Ray Stevens - Rex Features.jpeg
Carnaby Echoes/ LucyHarrison

Tom Jones walking down a London street stroking a cheetah? Now, that is unusual. The Welsh crooner is with actress Christine Spooner near Carnaby Street in a photograph from a collection of previously unseen images of the area’s Sixties heyday.

Tom Jones Singer with Actress Christine Spooner to open a shop in Carnaby Street
Carnaby Echoes/ Lucy Harrison

The pictures also include Cat Stevens leap-frogging a bollard, the Sex Pistols leering in the street and a more recent image of Boy George revisiting former workplaces The Foundry and Street Theatre as part of a project by artist Lucy Harrison called Carnaby Echoes, which celebrates the musical and cultural history of Carnaby Street.

PAUL WELLER IN CARNABY - 1977-Ray Stevens - Rex Features.jpeg
Ray Stevens/ Rex Features/ Carnaby Echoes /LucyHarrison

A mobile phone app has also been created that will give users a walking tour and includes interviews with famous faces about their memories of the street.

24th January 1967: Pop singer Cat Stevens (born Stephen Georgiou, later Yusuf Islam) leaps a bollard in Carnaby Street, London.
John Pratt/Getty Images/ Carnaby echoes/ Lucy Harrison

The app aims to bring stories, sounds and performances from the street’s history vividly back to life. A series of plaques have been placed at key locations, such as the site of jazz club Murray’s in Beak Street which kicked off the music scene in 1913.

THE SMALL FACES IN CARNABY - 1966 - Tony Gale
Tony Gale/ Carnaby Echoes/ Lucy Harrison
THE SMALL FACES IN CARNABY - 1966
Tony Gale /Alamy/ Carnaby Echoes/ Lucy Harrison

There will also be an exhibition at 20 Foubert’s Place which will feature original clothing from The Foundry. It will run from September 5 to October 6, while the app will be available from the Carnaby Echoes site, the App Store or Google Play from September 2.

Boy George in Newburgh Street where he revisited his fomer workplaces The Foundry and Street Theatre as part of the Carnaby Echoes project
Photo by Ken Russell - February/March 1956 Rock with your hands - Dancers in the Cat's Whisker, a popular coffee bar in London's West End, devised a means of dancing using hand gestures only as there was no space to manoeuvre.
TopFoto / Ken Russell/ Carnaby Echoes/Lucy Harrison

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