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Handel and Hendrix, neighbours in sound
Hidden among the boutiques and beautifying services in London’s Mayfair is a bright red door to an 18th-century townhouse. The surrounding hubbub would surprise its first famous occupant: when Handel arrived in 1723, Brook Street neighboured fields.
The now-busy thoroughfare was relatively peaceful, yet close to all Georgian amenities – an ideal base for the German-born composer, who became a naturalised British subject in 1727. A cosy