Clapton has cited it as his favourite venue to play in the world.

The Palais Royale operates today as a special occasion hall and is a favourite venue for bands, including the Rolling Stones, who played a 2002 concert there, and has been the location for live recordings by Sloan and Downchild Blues Band.

It received 60 % of the votes when BBC Radio Five Live conducted a poll in 2002 to find the favourite sports venue in the United Kingdom.

In 2003 she achieved her best Grand Slam result at the unlikely venue of Wimbledon, home of her least favourite surface, losing to Kim Clijsters, 7 – 5, 0 – 6, 1 – 6 in the quarterfinals.

Hammond scored many runs at Sydney, and it was a favourite venue of his.

Audiences at the Fringe are encouraged to vote for their favourite shows from each venue ; the most popular troupes are allowed to remount their productions for one last show at the end of the festival.

The Mission is a favourite venue for weddings.

He was in poor form until the arrived at this favourite venue – the Adelaide Oval – where he made 51 and 69 in the MCC's 6 wicket win over South Australia.

The park was a favourite social venue of the Parsi community.

The gardens are a favourite picnic spot and provides a beautiful venue for theatre, dancing and festivals, particularly the Shodun or ' Yoghurt Festival ', at the beginning of August, with families camping in the grounds for days surrounded by colourful makeshift windbreaks of rugs and scarves and enjoying the height of summer weather.

It was a favourite venue for clandestine weddings in the early 18th century.

The venue has also been voted favourite live music venue by readers of the NME on several occasions.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

The able and forceful empress Euphrosyne tried in vain to sustain his credit and his court ; Vatatzes, the favourite instrument of her attempts at reform, was assassinated by the emperor's orders.

However, he was not, according to several sources, Dinis ' favourite son ; his half-brother, the illegitimate Afonso Sanches, enjoyed full royal favour.

Eggs and ambergris was reportedly Charles II's favourite dish.

On being ransomed he went to Constantinople, where was held the court of his cousin, the Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, with whom he was a great favourite.

There was little affection between her and the older children, but Anne, according to tradition, was her favourite.

" Anne, dear gentle Anne was quite different in appearance from the others, and she was her aunt's favourite.

He was such a favourite with the latter, that, when Greece was visited by a drought in consequence of a murder which had been committed, the oracle of Delphi declared that the calamity would not cease unless Aeacus prayed to the gods that it might.

This game was chosen by Bent Larsen as his favourite game in ' Learn from the Grandmasters '

Sydney was named as a tribute to one of Lara's favourite grounds, the Sydney Cricket Ground, where Lara scored his first Test century-the highly acclaimed 277 in the 1992 – 93 season.

The last book in this format was Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes in 1922, a collection of favourite rhymes.

Despite this campaign Chaplin was a favourite with the troops, and his popularity continued to grow worldwide.

Morrison was seen as the favourite by many, but was distrusted by many sections of the party, especially the left.

The stand on Stevenage Road celebrated its centenary in the 2005 – 2006 season and, following the death of Fulham FC's favourite son, former England captain Johnny Haynes, in a car accident in October 2005 the Stevenage Road Stand was renamed the Johnny Haynes Stand after the club sought the opinions of Fulham supporters.

May 2010 also saw the funeral of Coronation Street favourite Blanche Hunt, who was written out after the death of her portrayer Maggie Jones on 2 December 2009.

Prior, whose authority is great in the origin of popular names, says " It seems probably that the name was in the first place, foxes ' glew, or music, in reference to the favourite instrument of an earlier time, a ring of bells hung on an arched support, the tintinnabulum "... we cannot quite agree with Dr.

The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.

In 785 the principal architect of the new capital, and royal favourite, Fujiwara no Tanetsugu, was assassinated.

By the autumn of 1559 several foreign suitors were vying for Elizabeth's hand ; their impatient envoys engaged in ever more scandalous talk and reported that a marriage with her favourite was not welcome in England: " There is not a man who does not cry out on him and her with indignation ... she will marry none but the favoured Robert ".

Jambon de Paris is a wet-cured, boneless ham, which is served cold in thin slices and is a favourite of French families, especially children, to fix a quick meal.

She used predominantly the London fashion houses ; her favourite was Redfern's, but she shopped occasionally at Doucet and Fromont of Paris.

Jarvis, an AAU champion in the 100 y, was among the pre-race favourites for the 100 m at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, but the hot favourite was American Arthur Duffey, who won the British Championships just prior to the Games.

The royal commissions continued during the 1820s, including one for a portrait of the king's sister Sophia, and one of Sir Walter Scott ( along with Jane Austen, one of Lawrence's favourite authors ), as well as one to paint King Charles X of France for the Waterloo series, for which Lawrence made a trip to Paris, taking Herman Wolff with him.

The work was repeatedly revised between 1831 and 1845 and subsequently became a favourite in Paris.

Throughout the bidding process and leading up to the vote at the 117th IOC Session, Paris was widely seen as the favourite, particularly as its bid was the city's third in recent history ( previous bids being for 1992 and 2008 ).

They released two studio albums ( Go in 1976 and Go Too in 1977 ) and one live album (" Live from Paris " recorded in 1976 and released in ' 77 ) which went on to become a cult favourite.

In London society, and in Paris during his occasional visits, he was a recognized favourite for his genial wisdom and his great conversational power.

She died at Craig-y-Nos and eight months later was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris to be close to her favourite composer Rossini in accordance with the wishes in her will.

She arrived in France from Scotland in 1548 aged six, via the French King's favourite palace at Saint Germain en Laye near Paris, and remained in France until 1561, when she returned to her homeland-sailing up the Firth of Forth to Scotlands Capital, Edinburgh, on 15 August that year.

Born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, Pierre Rode traveled to Paris at the age of 13 and soon became a favourite pupil of the great Giovanni Battista Viotti who found the boy so talented that he charged him no fee for the lessons.

His favourite lover, the Countess of Buffon, however, would not go with him, so he decided to remain in Paris.

Concino Concini ( Florence, 1575 – Paris, 24 April 1617 ), was an Italian politician, best known for being a minister of Louis XIII of France, as the favourite of his mother.

Many of these however moved on to France, Paris being the favourite destination for Russian émigrés.

Betterton, besides being a public favourite, was held in high esteem by Charles II, who sent him to Paris to examine stage improvements there.

There have been over a hundred artists featured from Europe, South America, USA, and Canada, including Real McCoy ( twice-1997 and 2009 ), Culture Beat ( twice-1993 and 2004 ) Cascada ( three times-2004, 2006, 2008 ), DHT, B4-4 ( a crowd favourite ), Joee, Sarina Paris, Len, Boomtang Boys, Snap !, Waldo's People, Do ( singing DJ Sammy's " Heaven "), Haiducci, DC Project, Jam & Spoon, Elissa, Stevie B, Ian Van Dahl, Sash !, Rupee, Kevin Lyttle, Jesse McCartney, JoJo, Elise Estrada, Basshunter and Daddy Yankee.

At the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris, Tysoe was a favourite in the 800 m, having just two weeks before the games broken the world record by running the 800 yd in 1 minute 57. 8 seconds.

Elisabeth Charlotte had apartments at Versailles, use of the Palais-Royal in Paris, and her favourite residence, the beautiful Château de Saint-Cloud on the outskirts of Paris, which was the couple's main residence when not at the Palace of Versailles.

3 / 5 " Serenade " ( Janáček Quartet ); Benjamin Britten, Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings ( soloist Peter Pears, Dennis Brain ; Boyd Neel String Orchestra, conductor Benjamin Britten ); Henry Purcell, " When I am laid in earth " (" Dido's Lament "), from Dido and Aeneas ( soloist Victoria de los Ángeles ; English Chamber Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli ); Joseph Haydn, " She never told her love " ( Canzonetta ) ( soloist Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten )-picked as Grigson's favourite ; Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in D major ( Tátrai Quartet ); Georges Bizet, Jeux d ' enfants ( Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon ); Benjamin Britten, " Death be not proud " ( from The Holy Sonnets of John Donne ), soloist Peter Pears, Zorian String Quartet, conductor Benjamin Britten ; Giuseppe Verdi, " Va, pensiero, sull ' ali dorate " ( Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves ) from Nabucco ( La Scala Chorus and Orchestra ).

The high level of both personnel and facilities at Salto di Quirra made it the favourite launching base of ESRO until 1972, following an agreement signed in Paris in 1967 by ESRO's CEO, Pierre Auger.

The city beat the favourite Paris 54 to 50 on the fourth and final ballot.

Paris is one of this favourite cities.

The King and Paris are enchanted by her, dressed as she is in a wonderful gown, and the King renames her Cressida and makes her a favourite at court.