Feature film documentary about the Ealing Club is set to be screened this weekend (Sunday, 1 December) at Acton's ActOne Cinema, followed by a live Q&A session with its director and producer.

The film, Suburban Steps To Rockland tells how a basement club opposite Ealing Broadway Station played a historic part in the development of rock and blues music when it opened in March 1962.

Suburban Steps To Rockland follows the recent induction of Alexis Korner, co-founder of the Ealing Club into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

The ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio featured pictures of Ealing, the Ealing Club blue plaque and the Ealing Broadway station sign.

Suburban Steps To Rockland producer Alistair Young said: "The event gave a major boost to the growing reputation of Ealing and west London as one of the world's major sources of music innovation.

"The international music opinion leaders at the Hall of Fame were reminded of Alexis Korner's championing in Ealing an electric guitar blues scene that shaped the Rolling Stones, The Who, Cream, Manfred Mann, Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Animals and many more."

At the induction event, Rolling Stone Keith Richard recalled how Korner had introduced him and Mick Jagger to Charlie Watts during an impromptu session at the Ealing Club and declared: "Alexis was the father of British rock and roll. If anyone deserves to be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame then it's him."

Top DJ Bob Harris added: "Alexis was this incredible father figure who was absolutely central to the development of British music as we know it today."

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Young said: "Suburban Steps To Rockland shows how it all happened."

Tickets for the screening: https://www.actonecinema.co.uk/movie/suburban-steps-to-rockland-the-story-of-the-ealing-club-live-qa/

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