The Ramons

In the late 60s, when the Beatles were getting back to basics, Paul suggested to the others that they should play some small club gigs incognito, wearing hoods and using pseudonyms. He would be Paul Ramon (a stage name he had used earlier in The Silver Beetles), and the others would adopt similar guises.

They never got round to doing it, although early Wings did a similar thing, turning up unannounced in a van at universities and colleges to play gigs. Paul later made the album Ram including a track called Ram On, and in the 80s George and his famous friends all used pseudonyms with the Wilbury surname. Not forgetting of course that the Ramones borrowed the idea almost wholesale, just adding the extra 'e'.

This mural is on the corner of Museum Street and New Oxford Street.