2/4. Robert Elms tells the story of Britain's longest-surviving live-music venue-the 100 Club, so named because of its numerical position in London's Oxford Street. The club's walls have vibrated to the sounds of jitterbug, jazz, blues and punk. The Trad Boom
This edition rewinds to the 50s, when the club made headlines as the epicentre of UK tradjazz, with Humphrey Lyttelton at the helm. But new owner
Roger Horton and programmer
Chris Barberthen reinvented the venue to showcase American blues with artists like Muddy Waters,
Bo Diddley and Eddie Taylor. British blues and beat followed, with 60s acts the Kinks, the Animals, the Who and the Spencer Davis Group. Ray Davies , Humphrey Lyttelton , Roger Daltrey , Chris Barber and Ron Watts al I wax lyrical about those vital years.