Pop at the pictures: Wartime London dances to America's tune

Jon Savage trawls the archive of British Pathe newsreels to pick out forgotten cultural gems. Here he explains why Rainbow Corner, a club for US servicemen, held 40s London in full swingSituated at the Piccadilly end of Shaftesbury Avenue in London, in the old Lyons Corner House building on the corner of Denman Street, Rainbow Corner opened as the American Red Cross Club in November 1942 – eight months after the first GI landed on British soil. It became a youth culture hub during the second h...

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