The thigh’s the limit for Lady Gaga’s boots, to be displayed at the new Hard Rock Cafe “Steve’s installing Lady Gaga’s boots right now,” says Gio Taliaferro, Hard Rock’s director of memorabilia design, as we watch a man in a hard hat grappling with a pair of thigh-high boots that she wore at a gig in Newcastle in 2014. But even if you don’t, you might be persuaded to pop in for a 24-Karat Gold Leaf Steak Burger™ when you hear about the wealth of rock memorabilia on display.ĭavid Bowie, Lady Gaga, Freddie Mercury… and Jessie J The red and blue neon, the Union Jacks on the ceiling and floor, the lurid video screens and dozens of speakers (“Two thousand watts of power”, murmurs a company rep) marks the Hard Rock Cafe out as the kind of place you’d definitely want to visit if you liked that kind of thing. Roger Taylor and Rita Gilligan at the Old Park Lane branch of Hard Rock Cafe (John Phillips/Getty Images) She’s here today for this sneak preview of the new venue, having become the brand’s “cultural attaché”, roving the globe to promote the company ethos of “Love All, Serve All” (the latter presumably being easier to accomplish than the former). One of the first members of that family was Rita Gilligan, who took a job at the original Hard Rock Cafe on Old Park Lane the day it opened – 14 June 1971. Love all, serve all is the Hard Rock Cafe motto Whether this prospect is as cool as the Hard Rock Cafe believes is an eternally debatable question, but it’s evidently doing something right: this flagship venue, opening next month in London’s Piccadilly Circus, is the 185th, and the “Rock Stars” they seek to employ will be joining a global family of around 36,000 staff. Inside, the “vibe” (which is definitely a word they’d use in the Hard Rock Cafe) is completely on-brand: if you want your food, drink, service and surroundings imbued with the ever-youthful spirit of rock ‘n’ roll, you’ve come to the right place. New Freddie Mercury track ‘Time Waits For No One’ features unheard vocal performance from Queen star
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