Hard Rock Cafe
Started in London by two American fellows Hard Rock Café is famous all around the world with its 138 locations in 42 countries. The memorabilia found in the Hard Rock Cafes is a collection of over 70,000 items that is by far the largest of it’s kind, but it all started with one guitar (a Fender Lead II) from Eric Clapton who was a regular at a hip café in London where the attitude was anything goes. He gave the guitar to the men to hang on the wall and the next week a Gibson Les Paul arrived from Pete Townsend with a note that stated “mine’s as good as his. Love, Pete.”