The Flamingo Club was a jazz nightclub in Soho, London, between 1952 and 1969. It was located at 33–37 Wardour Street from 1957 onwards and played an important role in the development of British rhythm and blues and modern jazz. During the 1960s, the Flamingo was one of the first clubs to employ fully amplified stage sound and it used sound systems provided by ska musicians from the Caribbean.[1] The club had a wide social appeal and was a favourite haunt for musicians, including The Who.[2]
No 37 Wardour Street was previously the address of the Shim Sham Club, which opened in 1935 and was known as "London's miniature Harlem".[3]
^Val Wilmer (18 June 2007). "Rik Gunnell obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
^"Rik Gunnell obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 22 June 2007. Archived from the original on 23 October 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
^Cite error: The named reference shim was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
TheFlamingoClub has been the name of several notable places of entertainment: FlamingoClub (London) in the UK Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada...
Flamingo Las Vegas (formerly theFlamingo Hilton) is a casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment...
with a minor role in the film. In the summer of 1963, Jeffrey Willis joins some friends for a day of gin rummy at El FlamingoClub, a private beach resort...
Sua Flamingoes FC are a football club from Sowa, Botswana, currently playing in the Botswana Premier League. They were promoted to the top division of...
Sullivan's The Wag Club (on the site of the earlier TheFlamingoClub), a cultural revolution swept around the world; first in Chicago at the Warehouse and...
owned theFlamingoClub in Soho, London, established the independent record label Ember Records, and set up the music business conglomerate TKO (The Kruger...
During the group's three-year residency at TheFlamingoClub, Fame heard the latest jazz and blues from America, and it was Booker T. & the M.G.'s recording...
flamingos are a common lawn ornament in the United States. The American artist Don Featherstone designed the pink lawn flamingo in 1957, naming the first...
TheFlamingos are an American doo-wop group formed in Chicago in 1953. The band became popular in mid-to-late 1950s and are known for their 1959 cover...
Rhythm and Blues at theFlamingo is a live rhythm and blues album recorded by Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames at theFlamingoClub in September 1963 and...
at theFlamingoClub in Wardour Street in October 1962. Gordon required 17 stitches after Edgecombe slit his face with a knife. He later posted the 17...
Scott's. It was also popular for its nightclubs, and was the original location of theFlamingoClub. Coventry Street is one-way for motor traffic, running...
Ryan Flamingo (born 31 December 2002) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Eredivisie club Utrecht, on loan from...
Flamingo Crossings, also known as Flamingo Crossings Town Center or Flamingo Crossings Village, is an outdoor shopping, dining, residential, and entertainment...
England. Opened in 1959, it has been owned and operated by The Gibb Family since 2023. Flamingo Land Resort was established in 1959 when a cinema entrepreneur...
Edgecombe confronted Gordon with a knife in theFlamingoClub on 27 October 1962, and Gordon required 17 stitches in the face. Edgecombe asked Keeler to help...
became the centre of the fledgling rock scene in London. Clubs included theFlamingoClub, a regular gig for Georgie Fame, Ronan O'Rahilly's The Scene...
Ladbroke Grove in England. In the early 1960s Fame and his band appeared regularly at TheFlamingoClub, a London "cool jazz" club, which Fame recalled as "full...
Morganna came across an ad in the window of theFlamingoClub for a "Cigarette Girl or Camera Girl. Must be 18". She told the owner she was 18, but he believed...
Morganna Roberts), former stripper and exotic dancer for theFlamingoClub in Baltimore, aka "Morganna the Kissing Bandit", known for her numerous stunts involving...
also a live one in order to capture the guitar solos performed by Clapton. A set was recorded at theFlamingoClub, with Jack Bruce (with whom Clapton...
Street. TheFlamingoClub was situated at numbers 33-37 from 1957 until 1967. The Vortex Club at 203 Wardour Street is mentioned in a song by the Jam, "A-Bomb...
beginning on April 14. In May the Peddlers were heading to the United States for a six-week engagement at theFlamingoClub in Las Vegas and then for two...
Global Information
Leicester Square; Piccadilly Circus