OPINION - Dylan Jones: Plaques are great — but if only London had even more of them

Four years ago, the long and winding road finally ended up in Savile Row. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the final Beatles concert on the roof of No 3, my good friend David Rosen, of Pilcher Hershman (“space agent, not estate agent,” he’ll say, just in case you didn’t know), had successfully lobbied Westminster Council to erect a blue plaque. And so at 8am on April 5, myself, Bill Nighy, the filmmaker Mark Baxter and a bunch of other Beatles nuts turned up to see it installed. We hadn’t come to see the oracle at Delphi, but rather a bloke up a stepladder with a hammer, attaching bronze, stone and lead to brick.