Becky is an amazing tour guide, with so mutch passion. Loved to hear the stories about Soho.
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What's Included
Includes
- A fantastic tour guide
Excludes
- Private transportation
- Public transportation
- Gratuities
Departure & Return
Departure Point
- The guide will be standing in the middle of Golden Square holding a red umbrella. The nearest stations are Piccadilly Circus or Oxford Circus
Return
- The tour usually finishes near Oxford Circus Underground Station, however, with enough notice, we can easily arrange to finish elsewhere should the group prefer!
Itinerary
Your tour starts here, in the quiet square right in the middle of Soho's chaos, the calm before the story begins.
Once the epicentre of Swinging Sixties fashion, where miniskirts and youth culture first took over the world. Great photo stop.
One of Britain's most famous stages, home to decades of legendary performances, from variety greats to rock royalty.
This grand Tudor-style building looks centuries old. It's actually less than 100 years old, and built from the salvaged timber of two decommissioned Royal Navy warships. One of Soho's best "wait, really?" facts.
Named after the doctor who traced a deadly cholera outbreak to the water pump right outside! One of Soho's strangest, most important stories.
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Reviews
Fantastic couple of hours. Guide very knowledgable with lots of varied stories & background.
The guide Becky was excellent to lead us very interesting spot in Soho and I thoroughly enjoyed the rock music history behind landmark. Customer decides fee after the tour which was very fair system. The tour last about two hours which is good length - not too long but quite packed. I enjoyed the tour every minutes and recommend anyone who loves 60s to 80s British rock music.
Really enjoyable tour of Rock ’n’ Roll Soho yesterday! Mark was knowledgeable and engaging, a great guide to discover Soho’s hidden stories. Would definitely recommend!
Excellent guided tour with knowledgeable, witty and enthusiastic guide!
I really enjoyed this tour. I learned a lot of things that I didn't know and significant music places. Interestingly, I've always been drawn to a particular street in London and I discovered that one of my heroes played in that street pretty close to a pub I have been to loads of times. I recommend this tour and I'm not giving away anything that you'll see. If you live in London it will also make you fall in love with Soho that little bit more. It made my day. Great guide too. He made me laugh a lot.
Great couple of hours. Kevin our guide was friendly and knowledgeable and brought the tour to life with interesting facts and humour. Deffo recommend!
We went on 3 tours in London. This one was THE BEST of all 3. Ben has a whole luggage of interesting facts and he is also an historian, so you can imagine how interesting the tour was! He told us various facts about the Soho and different buildings aside to rock and roll stories.
Big Ben tour guide was fantastic, full of fun facts and interesting stories. the 2 hours flew by so fast, highly recommend the tour
We took the free tour, the guide Ash was great! It’s a 2 hour tour, you walk soho all the way so in total it’s not a lot of miles. Had a wonderful time
Our guide Ben was incredible, best tour we’ve done and we’ve done a lot Informative, educational, humerous - it had the lot
The SOHO tour with Ash was amazing. It was interesting, funny, loved every minute of it
Thank you Kevin you are the best!
Rob was an excellent tour guide. Very knowledgeable and entertaining. Would definitely recommend this tour.
The singing was the cherry on top! Thanks Kevin
James was brilliant! Excellent, informative and fun. Highly recommend
Wonderful experience. The guide was so passionate and told us very interesting things about London
The tour was fun and informative. Colin was great. I think that it could be nice to play some of the music along the tour.
A lot of fun. Enjoyed the guide and all the sites
James was absolutely fantastic, kept us well informed. Even had a quick sing Thank you for a great two hours tour of lovely Soho
Great guide, clear knowledgeable and funny. Recommended
Becky was a great guide!!! I would highly recommend this tour. It took the full 2 hours, and we saw a lot of cool parts of Soho. Becky gave great history of London, Soho, rock and roll, and MORE! You have to take the tour to get the tea 😉
The tour was amazing and highly recommend to anybody interested in music and learning more about Soho. Pairing local pub recommendations with fun anecdotes, Ben created a wonderful tour that was exciting to follow.
Big Ben was good . Very informative. It was fun
The tour was really interesting and the guide, Kevin was excellent, a combination of history of the area and architecture and of course some great rock and roll stories with a bit of singing thrown in at no extra cost. The sites on the visit were really good and nice stories about them thank you kevin
We recently joined the Rock n Roll Free Walking Tour with Kevin, and it absolutely rocked from start to finish! Kevin was funny, full of stories, and somehow managed to make 2 hours feel like 20 minutes. From legendary music history to hidden Soho secrets, every stop had us enthralled. The tour was super easy to follow, relaxed, and accessible for everyone — no hardcore rock knowledge required! If you love music, London, or just a genuinely entertaining afternoon, I’d highly recommend it. We’re already talking about booking another tour in London.
Great guided tour and very unique with the one and only Mr. BIG BEN.
Ben our tour guide was enthusiastic, passionate, knowledgeable and a really interesting guy. I thoroughly enjoyed the sex drugs rock and roll tour around soho. Will definitely book another London with a local tour guide walk 👍
Rob was an incredibly enthusiastic guide who was genuinely interested in the subject matter which made it that much more fascinating to learn about. I had no idea there was so much influential rock and roll history in such a small area in London. Walking around Soho and hearing the origin stories and venues that launched so many classic rock legends was captivating to say the least, and Rob’s authentic and gregarious personality only added to the charm of the tour. 10/10, highly recommend to anyone especially music lovers.
We had a great time with our Tour guide Colin who's knowlwdge of Soho was fantastic. The tour lasted a few hours with plenty of stops at interesting locations. I can throroughly recommend this tour!
It’s very interesting and Ben was great, highly recommended
This 2 hour walking tour around Soho was made perfect by our guide Ashley. He was very knowledgeable and his presentation was excellent. The tour itself is very informative e taking you to some very interesting historical musical sights. A must for those of us who grew up with the music of the 70's.
We had a great tour with NATHAN!
We enjoyed our 2hours Soho tour with Kevin. He did a great job in sharing a lot of interesting information in an entertaining way! Would definitely recommend it if you are interested in Soho and curious to get some background about music. You don't have to be a rock'n'roll enthusiast to like it!
Tour was very interesting and very well organized and executed.
What an amazing tour! 2 hours around Soho discovering the most epic places and facts of the London rock’n’roll history. And if you don’t like music the tour is equally enjoyable as full of anecdotes obout the city from its Roman ancestor to the Industrial Revolution. Our guide, Kevin, has been simply AMAZING! Can’t wait to discover more tours around London!
This was a brilliant & fascinating tour of Soho. Sam, our guide, was truly excellent -- very knowledgeable, clear, and enthusiastic. The tour included so much more history than simply rock and roll, from Henry VIII's hunting grounds to Blake's birthplace to the cholera epidemic to Marx's apartment -- but yes, there were also the Violet Door and Trident Studios. We 'donated' 15 pounds at the end and it was worth every pence!
Nathan, our guide was great, very kind and funny, the tour was very interesting and complete. We could know new artists and history of the street art in the Shoreditch neighbourhood of the last fifty years. It was a very nice experience.
Ash’s tour was a real highlight of my London trip. The tour was engaging, fun and educational. What more can you ask for? Thanks Ash
Big Ben gave us an amazing tour with a lot of interesting information! He was very passionate, kind and clever. I suggest for everyone this program!
Kevin was a seasoned professional; welcoming, knowledgeable and clearly still loving sharing the history, anecdotes and vibe of Soho. His singing wasn't bad either. A fantastic ambassafor for these tours. Highly recommended.
Kevin was an amazing guide. He told us about rock&roll in Soho with such great enthusiasm. Definitely recommend doing this tour. It was so much fun.
Kevin is a great guide with deep knowledge and a passion for his subject and he gave a thoroughly enjoyable walk. Would recommend and will look out for his other tours.
Really interesting tour of SOHO not totally about rock N roll but covering a few other interesting landmarks like the famous Windmill theatre. Very good value for 2 hours and you just make a money contribution at your discretion cash or card welcome.
Ash was really entertaining, knowledgeable and friendly and kept the tour engaging despite the horrible weather. Great experience
Ash was the BEST guide - fun and cheeky tour of Soho - highly recommend his tour. Not the typical tour filled with tidbits about dusty historical figures but a tour with current pop culture references.
An engaging and entertaining journey through Soho’s Rock & Roll history. Kevin is a knowledgable and fun tourist guide who loves his music!
It was our first guided tour in London ever, and ... what a blast ! Jamie, our guide, was real fun, with perfect anecdotes and comedic timing ! We HIGHLY recommend this tour as we discovered unsuspected high places of rock'n'roll that you wouldn't notice without him ! So THANK YOU ! And long lives rock'n'roll !
One of the best free walking tours we ever had. Becky was such an interesting guide, turning 2 hours into an awesome experience
Great tour and excellent guide. Very entertaining and informative. We will do more of these tours. Great value as you pay what you think it is worth.
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