@Chi-Chief The song was recorded in 1965. From 1960-63, the Kray twins (the notorious London gangsters) ran a fashionable club-cum-casino in Wilton Place, Knightsbridge, called Esmeralda's Barn. When it closed, the action shifted to their Kentucky Club at 108 Mile End Road, Stepney, East London. Could be coincidence, but I see it as a nod to the Krays: ...now she gets her kicks in Stepney, not in Knightsbridge anymore.
@Chi-Chief The song was recorded in 1965. From 1960-63, the Kray twins (the notorious London gangsters) ran a fashionable club-cum-casino in Wilton Place, Knightsbridge, called Esmeralda's Barn. When it closed, the action shifted to their Kentucky Club at 108 Mile End Road, Stepney, East London. Could be coincidence, but I see it as a nod to the Krays: ...now she gets her kicks in Stepney, not in Knightsbridge anymore.
@Chi-Chief I was thrilled when I heard "Stepney" - the borough I lived in when the song came out. It was a poor, unfashionable neighborhood - the opposite of Knightsbridge... So I assumed it meant she enjoyed slumming, maybe having rough sex, perhaps buying drugs...
@Chi-Chief I was thrilled when I heard "Stepney" - the borough I lived in when the song came out. It was a poor, unfashionable neighborhood - the opposite of Knightsbridge... So I assumed it meant she enjoyed slumming, maybe having rough sex, perhaps buying drugs...
No one could ever explain this cryptic lyric ... \n"Now she gets her kicks in Stepney;\nNot in Knightsbridge anymore."
@Chi-Chief The song was recorded in 1965. From 1960-63, the Kray twins (the notorious London gangsters) ran a fashionable club-cum-casino in Wilton Place, Knightsbridge, called Esmeralda's Barn. When it closed, the action shifted to their Kentucky Club at 108 Mile End Road, Stepney, East London. Could be coincidence, but I see it as a nod to the Krays: ...now she gets her kicks in Stepney, not in Knightsbridge anymore.
@Chi-Chief The song was recorded in 1965. From 1960-63, the Kray twins (the notorious London gangsters) ran a fashionable club-cum-casino in Wilton Place, Knightsbridge, called Esmeralda's Barn. When it closed, the action shifted to their Kentucky Club at 108 Mile End Road, Stepney, East London. Could be coincidence, but I see it as a nod to the Krays: ...now she gets her kicks in Stepney, not in Knightsbridge anymore.
@Chi-Chief I was thrilled when I heard "Stepney" - the borough I lived in when the song came out. It was a poor, unfashionable neighborhood - the opposite of Knightsbridge... So I assumed it meant she enjoyed slumming, maybe having rough sex, perhaps buying drugs...
@Chi-Chief I was thrilled when I heard "Stepney" - the borough I lived in when the song came out. It was a poor, unfashionable neighborhood - the opposite of Knightsbridge... So I assumed it meant she enjoyed slumming, maybe having rough sex, perhaps buying drugs...