Crawdaddy Club

The Crawdaddy Club was a local event in Richmond, Surrey, England. He was in the Station Hotel, across from the Richmond Station. It was founded at the beginning of the 1960s by Giorgio Gomelsky (a secret hero of British Rocks ), a filmmaker and blues enthusiasts. It was named after Bo Diddley 's " Doin 'the Crawdad ", a number that regularly played the Rolling Stones as the end of their gigs.

The first house band of the club was the Dave Hunt R & B band, with whom also briefly Ray Davies, who later founded the Kinks occurred. In rock history, the club went but a fact that in its rooms in February 1963 The Rolling Stones made ​​their first appearance. They played for a fee of one pound per member and a share of the ticket prices. Soon they had so many fans that people were up on the road and so the club had to move into a larger space, the Richmond Athletic Ground, where they found space in a room under the grandstand. This place took three times as many visitors as the old space. The Stones had two performances a week and ended up at this time also her first chart hit Come on. After the Stones were too large for the small club and went on tour, The Yardbirds took the place of the house band at the Crawdaddy Club. This took there in 1963 their first album, a live album in which she acted as backing Sonny Boy Williamson II. At the time, Eric Clapton was with the Yardbirds and it was his first recording. Other artists who appeared here were, inter alia, Led Zeppelin, Long John Baldry, Elton John and Rod Stewart.

The Crawdaddy Club can rightly claim that he, together with the Cavern 's Club in Liverpool, one of the birthplaces of rock music in the UK. Besides, he was the namesake of the American rock magazine Crawdaddy.