The stories, really, are as numerous as they are individually notable. Salman Rushdie rented the flat above in the summer of 1967 and describes the shop below as ‘a scary place’ on account of how intimidatingly hip it was (‘India, man? Far out!’ he remembers the clientele saying to him when he told them he was Indian). Legendary groupie Pamela Des Barres had her first... encounter with Mick Jagger while he was trying on clothes. A white limousine carrying John Lennon and Yoko Ono used to pull up regularly outside.
And if you have ever looked at a picture of Keith Richards or Jimi Hendrix on stage and thought, ‘Jesus, that’s a cool jacket’ (not just me, then?), chances are that jacket was acquired at Granny Takes A Trip.
