Rock and Roll Soho Free Tour

Starting at Golden Square, this tour reads Soho through its music rather than its restaurants. Denmark Street — London's old Tin Pan Alley — once packed a single block with instrument shops and songwriting offices, plus the studio just around the corner where David Bowie recorded Ziggy Stardust; Ronnie Scott's on Frith Street has hosted jazz legends since 1965 and still does, every night.

Your guide walks the streets where the Rolling Stones and The Who built reputations at the legendary Marquee Club on Wardour Street, and where the 100 Club on Oxford Street has survived punk, wartime rationing and property developers to keep its stage lit since 1942. Along the way: Soho's older reputation for vice and nightlife, and how a neighborhood Dickens once called a place of 'smoke and song' earned that title twice over.