I was going to pave it across and turn it into a music street, a real music-theme scene for the world. They’d park in Denmark Street – no yellow lines in those days – sleep in their vans overnight, and play the Marquee the next night.

Will it withstand the overzealous bashing of a toddler or younger user who won’t always handle it with care? For babies and toddlers, musical toys can provide a wonderful sensory experience, helping build motor skills, teach about cause and effect and introduce the concept of rhythm.He walks along, and he puts his hand up to where a guitar’s on the wall, lifts it, and goes, ‘I won’t take that one. Crispin’s understanding is that Laurence Kirschel, the owner of Consolidated Developments, wants to create a sort of music quarter.

It’s a difficult balancing act, running a business here, especially now – but trying to appeal to tourists, pro musicians, and beginners alike is a long tradition, and I’m honoured to be a part of it. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The next significant arrival was Top Gear, opened at number five by Craig and Rod Bradley in March 1969.Babies and toddlers will love watching the rainbow beads whirl around inside the ocean-themed drum, before dancing along to their favourite songs with their bells in tow. Brought this because my 5 year daughter was pestering me to have a go on my guitar (which was a present from a relative, therefore too sentimental to be broken). They battle daily with the redevelopment chaos, and at the time of writing there was also the uncertainty and restrictions of coronavirus to deal with.

A great introduction to piano and keyboard for children aged 5 and above without being limited to just a handful of keys; we love the inclusion of a headphone audio jack; allowing childre to practice to their heart’s content without inflicting the entire house to Frère Jacques on repeat. The inhabitants included old hands like Lawrence Wright (“You can’t go wrong with the Wright songs”) and Mills Music (where 17-year-old Elton John, still Reggie Dwight, once had a job making tea).We can’t even look at this junior-size guitar without wanting to break out into Coco’s Un Poco Loco. Design is generic enough to out live a child's fast changing trends and tastes, so should do until they leave primary school and then until they want to get serious with guitar playing. It has four unique play modes including ‘free play’, ‘solo jam’, ‘play with the band’ and ‘play any song’, the latter of which syncs via Bluetooth to a smart device or mobile phone. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.