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Google Street View Magic! Introducing The Sixty-Second Rock and Roll Tour Across America

6/4/07, 6:09 pm EST

Like much of the nation, we can’t get enough of Google Map’s awesome new Street View feature – in fact, we look forward to never actually leaving the house again. Now, Rolling Stone has harnessed this new technology to deliver you some of our favorite rock landmarks, available in seconds. We hope this saves you from a long, sweaty pilgrimage to Graceland with that buddy you’ll lose touch with in five years.

beastie boys, google street view
Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique, Ludlow and Rivington Streets, New York, NY The cover of the Beastie Boys 1989 masterpiece Paul’s Boutique folds out to a near 360 view of the intersection of Ludlow and Rivington Street in New York’s East Village. The Paul’s Boutique was airbrushed in later, but a restaurant named Paul’s Boutique is currently in that building.

led zeppelin, physical graffiti, st marks place
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti Building, 94/96 St. Mark’s Place, New York, NY These two buildings that grace the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 double LP Physical Graffiti have changed little in the intervening twenty-seven years. It does, however, now house a clothing store called Physical Graffiti. Mick Jagger sits on one of the building’s stoops in the Rolling Stones video for “Waiting On A Friend.”

grateful dead, google street view, ashbury
Grateful Dead House, 710 Ashbury, San Francisco, CA (on the left) The Dead lived and wrote music in this communal home from 1966 until 1968. On October 2, 1967 eight narcotics officers broke the door down and arrested Pig Pen and Bob Weir on drug charges. “That’s what ya’ get for dealing the killer weed,” one of the officers told the group. The Dead moved out the following year. The house was in bad shape for a number of years, but the current owners have restored it to its former glory, according to Bob Weir.

tupac shakur, suge knight, google street view
Site of Tupac Shakur Murder, Intersection of Koval Lane and East Flamingo, Las Vegas, NV On September 7, 1996 Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight were on their way from a Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand to Club 662 when a vehicle pulled up next to them at this intersection and fired twelve bullets at Shakur. He died six days later at University Medical Center.

bob dylan, new york, google street viewBob Dylan’s First New York Apartment, 161 West 4th Street, NY, NY (building on the left, third floor) In mid 1962, tired of sleeping on friends couches, Dylan bought a studio apartment in this building. He lived there until late 1964. “It wasn’t much, just two rooms above Bruno’s spaghetti parlor, next door to the local record store and a furniture supply shop on the other side,” he wrote in Chronicles Volume 1. “The apartment had a tiny bedroom, more like a large closet, and a kitchenette, a living room with a fireplace and two windows that looked out over fire escapes and small courtyards. There was barely room enough for one person and the heat went.”


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dollyddagger | 6/11/2007, 3:48 pm EST

does anyone know where the the “da capo” cover from the love album ??

skydog8 | 6/10/2007, 3:24 pm EST

you forgot the “Big House” and
“Idlewild South”;Allman Bros. Band

skydog8 | 6/10/2007, 3:23 pm EST

you forgot the “Big House” and
“Idlewild South”;Allman Bros. Band

the jefe | 6/8/2007, 4:57 pm EST

The morrison hotel was in Los Angles and is now long gone.

Chris H | 6/8/2007, 3:15 pm EST

U2’s Joshua tree, “If they will tell us now where it is.” The band will not share that information

Anonymous | 6/8/2007, 12:44 pm EST

Whiskey a gogo… Fillmore east…Morrison hotel

Anonymous | 6/5/2007, 5:09 pm EST

Clapton’s 461 Ocean Blvd. please

Don Vito | 6/5/2007, 12:48 pm EST

My mom is a filthy pig.

Max Power | 6/5/2007, 12:40 pm EST

it must be for only specific address’s cuz i cant see my house

:(

Anonymous | 6/5/2007, 11:33 am EST

the place called Pauls Boutique is actually called something else now. though it never occured to me that the actual album cover was taken on that spot and it wasnt just named that because the album was cool.

Angus Young | 6/5/2007, 4:51 am EST

Yo, check this coool rock n roll tour out in Memphis…this guy’s great…Elvis, Johnny Ace, Aretha Franklin, Big Star, Johnny Cash….www.memphisrocktour.co m

suber | 6/5/2007, 3:38 am EST

Site of John Lennon’s death (archway facing north):
18 W 72nd St new york, ny

CBGB’s (so sad)
314 Bowery new york, ny(facing east white awning behind UPS truck

Max’s kansas City (east-brown awning):
213 Park Avenue South new york, ny

Chelsea hotel (southside)
238 W 23rd St new york, ny

Don Vito | 6/4/2007, 11:53 pm EST

Show me the house on the cover of 1978’s classic album, Yer Mom’s Breath Smells Like Rotten Smegma!

BOO-YA!

PWNED AGAIN, R0LL1NG D0RkS!

JR | 6/4/2007, 11:10 pm EST

This was a worthy post. Y’all have been struggling lately but this was legitimate

farrah | 6/4/2007, 9:51 pm EST

creative. but i was hoping for the ziggy stardust cover.

expand this article.

Andre Ricciardi | 6/4/2007, 9:32 pm EST

The Fillmore:
http://tinyurl.com/2 tkf4s

the Fillmore East:

http://tinyurl.com/3dy2 js

hyde street studios:

http://tinyurl.com/3 xdcfn

where tons of classics albums were recorded, click here to see which ones:

http://www.hydestreet.c om/clients.html

mars | 6/4/2007, 9:10 pm EST

Big Pink was 2188 Stoll Rd in West Saugerties.

Morrison Hotel was 1246 Hope Street in LA

Spencer | 6/4/2007, 8:25 pm EST

big pink, anyone?

jason | 6/4/2007, 8:17 pm EST

where is Morrison Hotel?

jason | 6/4/2007, 8:17 pm EST

where is Morrison Hotel?

graham | 6/4/2007, 7:15 pm EST

Do that building on the Allman Brothers At Fillmore East cover.

Anonymous | 6/4/2007, 6:44 pm EST

pretty cool, rs. pretty cool.

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