The Kinks song come to life:

""As long as I gaze on Waterloo Sunset, I am in paradise.

Every day I look at the world from my window

Chilly chilly is the evening time, Waterloo sunset's fine.""

The song was released as a single on 5 May 1967, and reached number 2 on the UK charts.

Queen Elizabeth Hall, which is part of the Southbank Centre, was originally opened by Queen Elizabeth in 1967.

Pink Floyd were the first rock act to play here, on 12 May 1967.

Tim Buckley's live album 'Dream Letter: Live in London 1968', featuring Danny Thompson, was recorded here on 7 October 1968.

Nick Drake played a gig here with John and Beverley Martyn on 21 February 1970.

Folk great Martin Carthy's 70th anniversary birthday concert was held here in May 2011.

After being closed for almost three years for renovations, it reopened in April 2018.

It has a 900 capacity auditorium and a smaller venue named the Purcell Room.

The Royal Festival Hall, a 2,700-seat venue within the Southbank Centre, was opened in May 1951 as part of King George VI's inauguration of the Festival of Britain.

Count Basie and his Orchestra played here on their first UK tour in April 1957, later returning with Frank Sinatra.

Bob Dylan played the Royal Festival Hall in May 1964, where he played Mr. Tambourine Man for the first time live, the first of over nine hundred times he has performed it. Dave Gilmour, later of Pink Floyd, was apparently in the crowd.

In 1969, George and Pattie Harrison came here to see both Ravi Shankar and Ray Charles. Charles' organist, a certain Billy Preston, was then pressed into duty for the Beatles upcoming Get Back/Let It Be album.

Pink Floyd also played here in 1969 and Ringo Starr saw Frank Sinatra here in 1970.

Laura Nyro made her first UK appearance here in February 1971, when she was supported by her boyfriend at the time, Jackson Browne. Neil Young also played here that month.

Brian Wilson premiered 'Smile' here on 20 February 2004.

Bert Jansch made his last public performance here, with his original Pentangle colleagues, on 1 August 2011, just two months before his death. Pentangle had played their first major concert here in 1967. 'A Celebration of Bert Jansch' was later held here on 3 December 2013, to coincide with what would have been his 70th birthday.

The Southbank Centre is home to the annual Meltdown Festival, which has included performances at the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and The Hayward since 1993. It is curated by a different music legend each year, the list of past curators including Elvis Costello, Laurie Anderson, Scott Walker, John Peel, Robert Wyatt, David Bowie, Lee ""Scratch"" Perry, Morrissey, Patti Smith, Jarvis Cocker, Massive Attack, Ornette Coleman, Richard Thompson, Ray Davies, Yoko Ono, David Byrne, M.I.A., Robert Smith and Nile Rodgers.

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