3 Savile Row (site of Beatles' final live performance), London

3 Savile Row—once the buzzing nerve center of Apple Records, and now a backdrop for selfie-seekers outside a clothing store. Back on January 30, 1969, this unassuming rooftop became the stage for one of the most legendary mic drops in music history: The Beatles’ final live performance.

It was lunchtime. London’s suits were munching their sandwiches when—boom—four scruffy icons, plus Billy Preston on keys, started blasting through a 42-minute, 5-song set that would later land on the Let It Be album. The band was in full groove mode while the winds whipped their hair, and baffled office workers peered out windows like confused meerkats. And yes, the basement glimpsed in the Let It Be film was right below all that magic.

Of course, no good rock 'n' roll moment goes uninterrupted. Enter the local police—stationed just a few doors down, no less—who showed up after noise complaints from thoroughly unimpressed nearby office dwellers. The show was cut short, but not before John Lennon gave the world one last wink with his legendary send-off: “I hope we passed the audition.” Classic Lennon.

Today, there’s no concert, no amps, no rooftop jam. Just a discreet plaque halfway up the building and an uncanny feeling that the ghost of Beatlemania is still lingering in the bricks. The police station’s still there, too—just in case someone else gets the idea to plug in a Marshall stack and go full rooftop rebel.