The story is simple enough: Chas (Fox), a London gangster, falls foul of his colleagues and seeks refuge in the house of fading rock legend Turner (Jagger).
I like then to stop, crouched, and press my back on a housing of actual rock, coldness which lives for a while on the skin.
Steinbeck bemoaned the coming of tourism: Today, Cabo San Lucas is home to luxury hotels and the houses of American rock stars, and many of the small villages have become suburbs of the larger towns of the Gulf, but people still visit, attempting to capture something of the spirit of the leisurely journey Steinbeck and Ricketts took around the Sea of Cortez.
Neil Brannan, a guide at Liverpool-based Cavern City Tours, called the house "probably the most important house in the history of rock and roll".
According to Spence D. of IGN, "Come Clean", remixed by Chris Cox exhibits elements of house music, while "Rock This World" displays "Kid Rock-meets-Aerosmith rock blitz".
A week later, then, I travel to Birmingham to see the back-to-back houses the Trust owns in the city centre, after which I will head to a place I've never been before: Kinver Edge, near Stourbridge in Staffordshire, to visit a collection of rock houses carved into the local red sandstone.
You couldn't describe Basement Jaxx's cocktail of house, punk rock, ragga and hysterical noise in a snappy phrase.
"I don't collect anything but rocks — my house is full of rocks," Humberto said.
The house, built on an outcrop of rock over a waterfall at Bear Run deep in the Pennsylvanian forest, was completed in 1939.
A mortar round hits the house next door, and shards of rock and a cloud of dust surge through the open door.
