The Secret Thames Island Where the Rolling Stones First Found Fame

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In the early 1960s, a young Mick Jagger stood on a cramped stage in a crumbling hotel ballroom and played to a crowd pressed together in the dark. The venue had no licence and barely any lighting. But the music was electric. And the island — tiny, private, sitting in the middle of the Thames — was about to become one of the most important addresses in British rock history.

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