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Didn't Wham! film one of their videos at The Marquee? "I'm Your Man," I believe. Please advise.

From 1964 to 1988 the Marquee Club was based at , 90 Wardour Street where almost every major rock band played.Other acts to regularly perform there included John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers, Eric Clapton, Cream,The Moody Blues, The Who, Yes, David Bowie, Jethro Tull, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Pink Floyd. , , Need I say more. This is the spiritual home of rock music and the number one pilgrimage site in the world, even more so than The Beatle's Cavern in Liverpool.

The Marquee club had such a wonderful atmosphere.I remember hearing Alan Price singing' I got a spell on you' not just once but twice in the same performance in around 1964/1965.This brilliant club where rock and roll people loved to play symbolised the swinging 60's.There is a new marquee in islington but that soho club was simply the very best.

The club moved in 1964 from Oxford Street to the site in Wardour Street. Its first opening night saw Sonny Boy Williamson, Long John Baldry and rod Stewart as well as the Yardbirds with Eric Clapton take to the stage. Resident bands included The Who, Pink Floyd, Spencer Davis and on Sunday afternoons something called the 'The David Bowie Showboat' where a young artist would try out new material to family and friends.

Phil Collins was a regular who harboured dreams to play on stage and whose dreams eventually came true with Genesis when he played after playing to stadium audiences. Other acts to take to the stage included Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones, Mott the Hoople, The Police, Fleetwood Mac. At its other site in Charing Cross Road (Now a Weatherspoons 'The Moon under Water'), u2, Simple Minds, Bryan Adams, Billy Idol, Queen as well as many others graced its stage.

The Marquee Club, the cramped and sweat-drenched Soho dive that launched the careers of the Rolling Stones, the Who, and the Small Faces. After opening in 1958 as a jazz club, then introducing rhythm and blues to London, the club attracted a who's who of rock and roll - including the Yardbirds, the Sex Pistols, David Bowie, and later REM and U2. Sadly the club closed in 1996.