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Can anyone think of songs about streets in London...
Obvious ones are
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
56 Lyndurst grove - Pulp
A Bomb in Wardour Street - The Jam
Albion - The Libertines
Belsize Blues - Blur
The list goes on, check ou this app which has loads London Music Mapp
Obvious ones are
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
56 Lyndurst grove - Pulp
A Bomb in Wardour Street - The Jam
Albion - The Libertines
Belsize Blues - Blur
The list goes on, check ou this app which has loads London Music Mapp
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Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
Others:-
Sunny Goodge Street - Donovan
Les Bicyclettes De Belsize - Engelbert Humperdinck
Lambeth Walk - Some act from the 1930's
Piccadilly Palare - Morrissey
Liberty Of Norton Folgate - Madness (plenty by Madness)
Electric Avenue- Eddy Grant
White Man In Hammersmith Palais - London Boys
London Town ~ Buck's Fizz
Camden Town ~ Suggs
Croydon ~ Captain Sensible
Some songs mention areas of London, 6 examples being:
Kayleigh ~ Marillion (Belsize Park)
In the Kitchen at Parties ~ Jona Lewie (Palmers Green)
Driving in My Car ~ Madness (Muswell Hill)
A Taste of Aggro ~ Barron Knights (Catford; another Barron Knights song mentions Walthamstow)
Up the Junction ~ Squeeze (Clapham)
Glory Glory Man United ~ Man United (Wembley)
Also I can't resist sharing this. Digital Spy have a member called x_hayes_x, and there are two areas of Greater London called Hayes!
London Talking ~ Ian Dury
Upminster Kid ~ Ian Dury
Tottenham Tottenham ~ Chas & Dave
London Girls ~ Chas & Dave
Hot Shot Tottenham! ~ Chas & Dave
... mentions Regent Street and Leicester Square, and also indirectly mentions Carnaby Street.
Play With Fire - The Rolling Stones
... mentions St. John's Wood, Stepney and Knightsbridge.
Chelsea Morning - Joni Mitchell
The Chelsea in this song is actually the one in New York City, but let's pretend it's the one in London.
'England swings like a pendulum do
Bobbies on bicycles, two by two
Westminster Abbey, the tower of Big Ben
The rosy red cheeks of the little children'
Wotcher (Knocked 'Em In The Old Kent Road) - Albert Chevalier
Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner - Hubert Gregg
London Pride - Noel Coward
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square - Vera Lynn
We are London - madness