Five of Us Riding Nowhere: It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But We Like It)

The original plan for today was to get up early in the morning to go to Stonehenge. Last night being Friday before the long Bank Holiday weekend meant that the hipsters in our Hoxton neighborhood had plans to stay up until early morning. It sounded like a Stone Roses concert outside, with screaming, bottles smashing and more. The kids didn’t go to sleep until late, and we woke up throughout the night. The noise was still strong as of 2:30am. We didn’t like that.

So the plans changed. We instead spent time visiting 221B Baker Street, the address of London’s most famous detective.

Abbey Road Studios, birthplace of some of the greatest rock ‘n roll in history, also came on the agenda. After recording, the Beatles used to walk over to Paul’s house at 7 Cavendish Avenue. We did too (casually trying not to appear too creepy since he still owns that house– fortunately there was another creepy guy doing the same which took attention away from us).

The lyrics to A Hard Day’s Night were written on the back of a birthday card Julian Lennon got on his first birthday. The card is at the British Library, our final stop for the day. Paul’s handwritten lyrics for Yesterday are also there (when it finally got upgraded from the working title of Scrambled Eggs), along with several others.

There’s some other rock ‘n roll there too: the Magna Carta, some of Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks, a Gutenberg Bible, a little Shakespeare, and ancient illuminated manuscripts. There are also originals from some other respected songwriters like Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Dinah met a security guard she really liked as well. Her reaction was like meeting the Beatles in 1965. She screamed uncontrollably when he winked at her.