Walk down any street in central London and chances are you'll be within yards of some of the most hallowed ground in the history of rock and pop. From Chelsea to Kensington, Mayfair to Soho and Belgravia, Camden, Notting Hill and beyond, echoes of London’s staggeringly diverse rock and pop heritage can be found almost everywhere you look - on street corners, down narrow alleyways, in pubs, clubs, behind anonymous-looking doorways and extravagant Georgian facades. Here are the urban pastures frequented by the demigods of rock and pop - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Queen, the Sex Pistols, the Clash, Oasis – plus innumerable second-tier stars, eccentrics, wannabes and also-rans.

Move beyond the rock and pop terra sanctum of central London (a territory roughly bounded by London underground’s Circle Line), and rock and pop connections are inevitably spread more thinly. But even here there remain rich pickings for fans with time and shoe leather to burn, from red-brick suburban semis where stars-to-be took their first steps to country pubs where legends of rock supped ale with the locals and rambling Gothic hideaways where those whose fame was burning a little too brightly sought sanctuary.

True, many sites are not what they used to be and some have vanished altogether. But whether a location has been summarily bulldozed or remains miraculously intact, for the true believer just knowing, yes, this is where it happened can be enough.

You know who you are.