The floor is worn flooring and fairly tatty, the decor spartan, giving little indication just how groundbreaking this room was in the annals of music history.

I’m alone with my thoughts and my memories of 60s’ discotheques, radio’s Pick of the Pops and TV’s Top of the Pops.

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