A friend asked me why I return to Marylebone. I couldn’t really answer her, but now that I’ve spent some time in Marylebone, I know the answer. First of all it’s a posh neighborhood, that is wide streets, well dressed people, clean and safe. It is also centrally located close to Baker St. and Marylebone stations.

There is some significant musical history too! The Beatles used to live here. Zak Starsky was born on Montagu Place. Jimi Hendrix lived there. John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived there. John Lennon was arrested there on trumped up charges of drugs later a cop was fired for planting drugs on Lennon. I want to hold your hand was written in the basement flat in Marylebone, the first song top hit, heralded in British Invasion.

At Marylebone City Hall, Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman, Ringo Starr married the Bond girl Barbara Bach, (uniting all 3 Beatles) and Paul McCartney married his recent wife Barbara Walters niece on the day of Lennon’s assassination. Apple was started on Baker Street. Guy Richie & Madonna used to have a home here as well.

Grow old with me is the closest you can come to a Beatles reunion: in 2019 Ringo Starr sings and plays the drums, Paul McCartney plays bass and sings on a song that John Lennon wrote.

No Beatles Tour is complete without Visiting Abbey Rd., Studios and the famous crosswalk of the album cover Abbey Road!