Lord John was a British men's fashion retailer, which opened its first store at 43

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, London, at the corner with

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, in 1963. The first Lord John boutique was opened by the brothers

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, Harold and David Gold in Carnaby Street in 1963, and the choice of name led to litigation from

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who already owned several fashion shops in the street. In 1967, the store had a three-storey high giant

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mural on the outside of the building, painted by the then largely unknown pop-art collective Doug Binder, Dudley Edwards and David Vaughan (BEV). Lord John was very popular with

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s, and regular customers included the pop groups

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, and

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. It appeared on the cover of the 1967 album ''This Is My Scene'' by the

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orchestra, and was also seen in the 1969 horror film ''

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''. Lord John had eight shops by 1970, and grew to about 30 in the early 1970s, before being acquired by the retail group Raybeck, who sold it to

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in the mid-1980s, when they became Next stores. Sponsored the lord john Cup in 1977 a chess tournament.

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{{Reflist Clothing retailers of the United Kingdom Shops in London Defunct retail companies of the United Kingdom Defunct companies based in London Retail companies established in 1963 1963 establishments in England 1960s in England