square square address london ground floor basement flat leased beatles member mid-1960s location miles abbey road studios beatles recorded known people lived address including british member parliament daughter lady emily square named highly regarded london society late 18th century paul_mccartney recorded demo songs looking worked compositions including help converted flat studio avant garde label recording spoken word albums manager later lived whilst living composed wind cries mary months john_lennon rented flat taking photograph cover album police raided flat looking drugs landlord property sought injunction prevent illegal sold lease february unveiled blue marker plaque site making english heritage building historical interest history occupants designed built houses square named yorkshire born social reformer patron arts literary critic writer lived nearby death august square example regency terrace residential architecture popular 19th century communal garden located centre surrounded iron use limited residents built square tall buildings originally intended use family homes instead apartments victorian writer especially talking architecture square twin built economical modern builders dispose profit wish live near great banker lived father book local index list stock cited living according journals living house aged died address march 5th daughter royal blood english model actress girlfriend lived close 1960s lease leased flat shortly marriage consisted ground floor lower ground floor cellar basement original house entrance gained walking steps leading lower ground floor door door ground level ground floor suite bathroom pink bath sunk floor bedroom sitting room kitchen bathroom bedroom sitting room original fireplace resident square lord welcomed saying journalist distinguished square sure welcome distinguished gentleman lady located house place august embassy spokesperson complained beatles fans wall messages meant wall shall french took world war says language young people use worse heard trenches lived suggested group members houses near july bought retained lease flat rented flat fool employed apple painting london designing psychedelic clothes beatles cream rented flat asked install recording equipment including reel reel tape machines planning use demo studio recordings spoken word albums house far abbey road studio beatles recorded parents house street london living time recorded demo version looking square late march worked composition moved flat supposed studio defended stating times recorded apple label discouraged people interested believing working exclusively time recording friend visited apartment strange position playing host expensive apartment fixing drinks lean green silk sitting room later gave flat remained sub let december month today lived lower ground floor composed wind cries mary argument cooking skills months shared apartment bassist played psychedelic band unfortunately effects threw walls forcing lent flat pop stars friends years needed place stay london mother law stayed square home visited daughter started relationship wife son moved flat june living months returning preferred live square isolated lived square flat months white album recorded visitors remembered flat state dirty plates cups clothes newspapers magazines floor couple living diet champagne heroin experimental album recorded notorious nude cover photos taken square apple employee set camera photograph left pregnant stay heroin addiction october flat raided sgt remembered answered door female voice said message apple office opened door saw female men dressed plain clothes panicked closed door thinking beatles fans window person window holding search warrant read knowing point police officers raid consisted seven police officers police dogs played time refused open window later accused justice crime inside flat police searched room thoroughly supposed accompany whilst according law summoned pointed case asking replied shown grams case reporter told coming weeks believe cleaned house lived apartment stupid went damn house arrested pleading guilty possession long fined note november arrested conspiracy course justice alleged committed convicted sentenced years imprisonment raid landlord sought injunction february forbidding family live allowing music instruments played appealed compromise offered family member live flat finally settle case sold lease february legacy music label owner bought flat beating rival bid considered opening music museum decided rent instead week author miles contended square clearly candidate blue marker plaques buildings historical interest saturday october people unveiled blue plaque square john_lennon musician songwriter lived beatles biographer started unveiling ceremony group gathering said honoured blue plaque thank english heritage john way particular flat memories interesting history john year grateful commemorating john particular london life spawned great music great art davis commented think highly amusing plaque considering happened mentioned drugs bust plaque great
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