Fans London started life as a punk shop in Charing Cross Road, London in 1979, selling bondage trousers, ripped t-shirts, punk badges and a wide array of punk clothing, soon after Seditionaries’ and Boy London started on the Kings Road in Chelsea. The stand-out feature of the shop was the volume of the ear-splintering punk music that was played all day. Eventually the developers knocked the building down, in about 1981.