Archinect - News 2024-04-28T03:51:58-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149935964/sex-pistols-graffiti-secures-famous-tin-pan-alley-building-grade-2-listed-status Sex Pistols graffiti secures famous Tin Pan Alley building Grade 2* listed status Ellen Hancock 2016-03-22T13:23:00-04:00 >2016-03-22T13:55:54-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/s0/s039x94z6f19bxpy.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The cartoon drawings and graffiti scrawled all over the 1970s hangout of the Sex Pistols - a former silversmith&rsquo;s workshop attached to a townhouse in London&rsquo;s Denmark Street &ndash; have helped the building be awarded Grade 2* Listed Status. The decision by the Department of Culture, Media &amp; Sport, on advice from Historic England, is a major victory in the campaign to maintain Denmark Street, known as &ldquo;Tin Pan Alley&rdquo;, which is widely seen as a spiritual home for British popular music.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>