Kensington Market was a three-story indoor market at 49/53 Kensington High Street, in the Kensington area of London, England. It opened in 1967.
In the 1960s and 1970s, it catered to hippie and bohemian culture. From the 1980s to the end of the 1990s, it catered to punks, new romantics, metal heads, ravers, and goths, as well as other sub-cultures of contemporary music, fashion, hair stylists, body arts, and crafts and accessories.
In 1969, before the band Queen had formed, Roger Taylor ran a stall at the market, also enlisting Freddie Mercury to work on it. [1] [2] In a 2006 interview, Lemmy, the founder of Motörhead, stated he sold dope at the market during the 1960's. [3]
Hyper Hyper was a unit that provided stall space for many new designers, including Fiona Cartledge (Sign of the Times), [4] [5] [6] [7] Pam Hogg, [8] Rachel Auburn and Leigh Bowery, [9] before moving to its own premises across the road in October 1996. [10]
The market finally closed on 29 January 2000. [11] The building was left derelict following its closure, and was demolished in 2001.
Ian Fraser Kilmister, better known as Lemmy Kilmister or simply Lemmy, was a British musician. He was the founder, lead singer, bassist and primary songwriter of the rock band Motörhead, of which he was the only continuous member, and a member of Hawkwind from 1971 to 1975.
Motörhead were an English rock band formed in London in 1975 by bassist and lead vocalist Lemmy Kilmister, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox. Lemmy was also the primary songwriter and only constant member. The band are often considered a precursor to the new wave of British heavy metal, which re-energised heavy metal in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Though several guitarists and drummers have played in Motörhead, most of their best-selling albums and singles feature drummer Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor and guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke. From 1995 until the band's break-up in 2015, the group consisted of Lemmy, guitarist Phil Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee.
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Then I became a drug dealer in Kensington Market. It was a great place to sell dope, to pull chicks, get clothes you didn't get anywhere else, really cool.