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Songs about London
Henry Irving
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Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks (might as well start with the best London song ever)
White Man in Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
In the City - The Jam
London Pride - Noel Coward
Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - Old people in the pub during the War
White Man in Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
In the City - The Jam
London Pride - Noel Coward
Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - Old people in the pub during the War
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The Lambeth Walk - Various
The Red Red Robin - Billy Cotton (well I think it's about SE London :o) )0 -
Streets of London Ralph McTell0
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London Calling - The Clash
Misty Morning, Albert Bridge - The Pogues
London you're a Lady - The Pogues
Pentonville - Babyshambles
London Bridge - Big Audio Dynamite
London Bye Ta Ta - David Bowie0 -
Lon-don City - Caspa0
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Up the Junction - Squeeze
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Only living boy in New Cross - Carter USM
London - The Smiths0 -
A Rainy Night in Soho - The Pogues
Mile End - Pulp
Guns of Brixton - The Clash0 -
The Taking Of Peckham 123 - Carter USM
Twenty four minutes from Tulse Hill - Carter USM
The Only Living Boy in New Cross - Carter USM
London Girls - Chas and Dave0 -
going on the song titles
Rainy Night In Soho - Pogues
London - Smiths
London Can You Wait - Gene
In To The Valley - The Skids
London Bridge - Dogs
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
London's Burning - The Clash
Victoria - The Kinks / The Fall
Squalor Victoria - The National
Whippin' Picadilly - Gomez
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam
LDN - Lilly Allen
Chelsea Dagger - Fratellis
(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea - Elvis C.
A13, Trunk Road To THe Sea - Billy Bragg0 -
London Boys - T Rex
London Boys - David Bowie
Werewolves of London - Warran Zevon0 -
Forgot - A nightingale sang in Berkely Square.
Showing my age with that one.....0 - Sponsored links:
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Waterloo sunset - The Kinks. If London ever has a "national" anthem, this must surely be it.0
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A Bomb in Wardour Street - The Jam
Soho Strut - can't remember who did it though0 -
From a Vauxhall Velox - Billy Bragg
Plaistow Patricia - Ian Dury and the Blockheads0 -
chelsea girl -simple minds.0
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For tomorrow - Blur
Up in heaven (not only here) - The Clash
SE8 - Cinimo
He's dead - Suede0 -
Up the Junction - Squeeze
Edit sorry stonemuse beat me to it. Toon never the less.0 -
There's a certain theme running which links the following 'songs': see if you can spot it.
'Good Old Arsenal' ; Arsenal 1st. Team Squad
'Ossie's Dream' (Spurs Are On Their way To Wembley) : Tottenham F.A Cup Squad
Tottenham, Tottenham' : another Tottenham F.A Cup Squad
'Viva El Fulham' : Tony Rees and the Cottagers
'Chelsea' :Stamford Bridge
That's right, they're all on an LP I bought March Jr. years ago at a car boot sale, Cool, eh?0 -
5 Minutes- Stranglers (about Nottin Hill)
London Lady- Stranglers0 -
Finchley Central - The Temperance Seven
Angel - Rod Stewart0 -
The Bounds Green Grass of Home
East End Girls and Theydon Bois
Wherever I Lay My Hatton Cross
Sexual Ealing
(I Cant Get No) SatisfACTON
The Only Way is Upminster
Baker Street
Black is Blackwall
Nothing Compares to Euston
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London Town- Bucks Fizz (serious, I've got the 12").0
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Revo-luton Rock
The Ghosts of Cable Street - The Men They Couldn't Hang
Electric Avenue - Eddie Grant0 -
None of you ever heard The London Song by Ray Davies? Came out in the late 90's, it was pretty much his idea of a Waterloo Sunset for modern times. I recently got it off ITunes.0
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Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
Mile End - Pulp
London Is The Place For Me - Lord Kitchener
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces0 -
A Bomb in Wardour Street - The Jam
The battle of Epping Forest - Genesis
Chelsea Monday - Marillion
Croydon - Captain Sensible
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant0 -
Worked on a compilation cd of songs about London for Uncut a few months ago.
The CD was given away with the May issue of the mag and this was the tracklisting we evedntually came up with :
CHRIS DFFORD Up The Juction (new version by Chris, solo and acoustic)
NOEL COWARD London Pride
MADNESS NW5
MARY LOU LORD Cold Kilburn Rain
LORD KITCHENER London Is The Place For Me
MEN THEY COULDN'T HANG Ghosts of Cable Street
BILLIE HOLIDAY Foggy Day (In London Town)
CHRIS T-T London Aquarium
JESSE MALIN Hotel Columbia
MAGNETIC FIELDS Swinging London
CARBON/SILICON Acton Zulus
PERALFISHERS London's In Love
ROBYN HITCHCOCK Trams of Old London (my fave - glorious song)
ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE Streets of London
JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS Willesden to Cricklewood0 -
This is London - Akala0
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Nothing Compares to Kew - Sinead O'Connor.
Stone Penge - Spinal Tap.0 -
And God Created Brixton - Carter USM
London - The Smiths
Lullaby of London - The Pogues
London Loves - Blur
Londons Burning - The Clash
Valley Floyd Road - The Covered End Choir
Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellis
(I don't want to go to) Chelsea - Elvis Costello
Chelsea's Teardrop - Black Daniel0 -
Eastbourne Ladies, Kevin Coyne...London if you travel by Ryanair or easyjet, or are American, or organising the 2012 Olympics.0
