List of songs about London

List of songs

This is a list of songs about London by notable artists. Instrumental pieces are tagged with an uppercase "[I]", or a lowercase "[i]" for quasi-instrumental including non-lyrics voice samples.

Included are:

  • Songs titled after London, or a location or feature of the city.
  • Songs whose lyrics are set in London.

Excluded are:

  • Songs where London (or parts of London) are simply name-checked (e.g. "New York, London, Paris, Munich", lyrics of "Pop Muzik" by M).
This is a dynamic list of songs and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

0–9

  • "7Teen" by The Regents
  • "12 Hours In Brixton" by Lisa Lashes
  • "12 Strings on Carnaby Street" by Steve Morse
  • "13 Chester Street" by The Pretty Things[1]
  • "13 Dead" by Benjamin Zephaniah (about the 1981 New Cross fire)
  • "13 Dead (Nothing Said)" by Johnny Osbourne (about the 1981 New Cross fire)
  • "15 Minutes of Fame" by Sheep on Drugs
  • "18 Whitcomb Street" by Ian Whitcomb (Soho)
  • "186 Goldhawk Road" by Morwell Unlimited
  • "1617 Broadway" (from Mr. Wonderful (musical))
  • "1940 London" by Solitaire
  • "1st Transmission" by Earthling
  • "2007 FPS A London Conversation" by The Clarke & Ware Experiment
  • "22 Acacia Avenue" by Iron Maiden
  • "22 Grand Job" by The Rakes[2]
  • "24 Minutes from Tulse Hill" by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
  • "The 253" by Chris T-T
  • "29 Church Street" by Les Humphries Singers (Croydon)
  • "3AM Eternal" by The KLF (original "Pure Trance" version)
  • "30 Minutes in London" by Antoine Dufour
  • "368" by Jamie T
  • "The 4 Marys Go Go Dance All Night at the Groovy Cellar" by Captain Sensible
  • "4AM in Leicester Square" by Jaguar
  • "4.50 From Paddington" by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley
  • "5.52 From Victorloo (London Transport Suite)" by Melodi Light Orchestra Conducted By Ole Jensen (alias of Robert Farnon)
  • "5,6,7,8" by Shut Up and Dance (Hackney, Stoke Newington)
  • "59 Lyndhurst Grove" by Pulp (Peckham)
  • "6 Horsemen (The Brixtons)" by Sleaford Mods
  • "62 Brougham Road (Parts One And Two)" by The Apostles (Hackney)
  • "7.10 from Suburbia" by Jackie Trent[2]
  • "71–75 New Oxford Street" by Mr. Bloe
  • "85 Westbourne Terrace" [I] by Goldie & the Gingerbreads
  • "853-5937" by Squeeze

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  • "I Am A Man From Lewisham" by Billy Jenkins (musician)
  • "Ici Londres" by Chiara Mastroianni
  • "I Dig Everything" by David Bowie ("I feed the lions in Trafalgar Square")
  • "I Do The Rock" by Tim Curry (Moscow Road)
  • "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" by Elvis Costello
  • "I Fell in Love With a Female Plumber From Harlesden NW10" by Splodgenessabounds
  • "I Giardini Di Kensington" by Patty Pravo
  • "I.K.B. – R.I.P." by Frank Tovey (Westway, Isle of Dogs, Millwall docks)
  • "I Like London" by Lionel Monckton and Arthur Wimperis (from The Arcadians, 1909)
  • "I Like London in the Rain" by Blossom Dearie
  • "I Live in Camberwell" by Basement Jaxx
  • "I Live in Style in Maida Vale" by The Hammersmith Gorillas
  • "I Live in Trafalgar Square" by Clarence Wainwright Murphy
  • "I Love Lambeth" by The Monochrome Set
  • "I Love London" by Crystal Fighters[2]
  • "I Love London" by Lorraine Bowen
  • "I Love London" by Tommy Page
  • "I Luv U" by Dizzee Rascal
  • "I Might Be Lyin'" by Eddie & The Hot Rods ('The Strand')
  • "I Was There (At the Coronation)" by Young Tiger[2]
  • "I'd Like to go on a London Spree ... Then come with me! ..." from The Spring Chicken
  • "I'd Never Know" by Noël Coward ("Why is the Springtime giving London this lovely glow?")
  • "Idiot Child" by Madness ("Spunky little kid from North West Five")
  • "If I Can't Get to London" by David Craig Simpson
  • "If I Could" by David Essex ("Canning Town" etc.)
  • "If I Left London" by Christopher Curtis (from Chaplin)
  • "If I Ruled The World" by Kurtis Blow
  • "If It Wasn't for the 'ouses in Between" by Edgar Bateman and George Le Brunn (1894, sung by Gus Elen – "With a ladder and some glasses you can see to Hackney Marshes")
  • "If London Were Venice" by The Venetians
  • "If You're Anxious For To Shine" from Patience (opera) ("If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your mediaeval hand")
  • "Il Pleut Sur Londres" by Sylvie Vartan
  • "Ill Manors" by Plan B[2]
  • "Illegal Gunshot" by Ragga Twins
  • "Ilya Kuryakin Looked at Me" from Cleaners from Venus (Wardour Street)
  • "I'm a Waterloo House Young Man" from Patience (opera)
  • "I'm Alright Jack" by Tom Robinson Band (Hampstead)
  • "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" by Cockney Rejects ('West Ham')
  • "I'm Goin' To Settle Down Outside Of London Town" by Irving Kaufman (singer)
  • "I'm Going to Get Lit Up When the Lights Go Up in London" by Hubert Gregg (end of the WW2 blackout)
  • "I'm In London Again" (from Baker Street (musical))
  • "I'm Old Fashioned" by Noël Coward and Johnny Mercer ("Those nightingales in Berkeley Square")
  • "I'm the Face" by The High Numbers
  • "I'm Riffin' (English Rasta)" by MC Duke
  • "I'm Trying to Make London My Home" by Sonny Boy Williamson[2]
  • "I must leave London" by Piano Magic
  • "Impressions of London" by Ronald Binge
  • "In A Golden Coach" by Billy Cotton
  • "In A London Cab (Before The Rain)" by Anastasia
  • "In Aallen Kneipen Von Soho" by Caterina Valente
  • "In Bedlam" by Creed Taylor Orchestra
  • "In Bond Street" by The Young Idea (featuring Tony Cox (record producer))
  • "In Brixton" by Matumbi
  • "In Der Carnaby Street" by Peggy March
  • "In Foggy Old London" by Burl Ives
  • "In Gay Mayfair" (from the musical comedy The Belle of Mayfair)
  • "In Gunnersbury Park" by The Hit Parade
  • "In Iverna Gardens" by The Lilac Time
  • "In London" by Iain Matthews
  • "In London" by Johnny Logan
  • "In London" by Vangelis & Neuronium
  • "In Old Kent Road" by Arthur Seldon
  • "In Soho Late At Night" by Barb Jungr & Michael Parker
  • "In The City" by The Jam[1]
  • "In The City" by Madness
  • "In The Country" by Skepta
  • "In The Streets of London" by The Business
  • "Incident At Mudchute" by The Recedents (featuring Mike Cooper (musician))
  • "Inelegantly Wasted in Papa's Penthouse Pad in Belgravia" by The Weekenders
  • "Inner City Rap" by Ti2bs (Haringey)
  • "Inner London Violence" by Bad Manners
  • "Innocence" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins (in Angel Passage about William Blake's life in London)[6]
  • "Initials BB" by Serge Gainsbourg[8]
  • "Inspirations Of London" by Ambros Seelos
  • "Interlude – London Massive" by Aphrodite
  • "Into Orbit" by Adamski (a reference to the M25 (London Orbital) Acid House scene in 1988/1989)
  • "Into The Heart Of Dalston" by Snowpony
  • "Isabel Makes Love Upon National Monuments" by Jake Thackray ("With style and enthusiasm and anyone at all, Isabel makes love in the Royal Albert Hall")
  • "Isle of Clerkenwell" by Harry H. Corbett
  • "The Islington Ballroom" by Richard Digance
  • "Itchycoo Park" by Small Faces[2]
  • "It Ain't Necessarily Bird Avenue (Byrd Avenue)" by Spanky and Our Gang
  • "It Could Be You" by Blur
  • "It's Fun Finding Out About London Town" by Billie Anthony
  • "It Gets Me Talked About" by Albert Chevalier and Alfred H. West ("Playin' 'ind legs of the helephant in East End pantomime")
  • "It's Grim Up North London" by The KLF
  • "It's Fun Finding Out About London Town" by Billie Anthony
  • "It's a Great Big Shame" by Gus Elen
  • "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" by Jack Judge and Harry Williams
  • "It's A Long Way To Wembley But Less Than 7 Days To Saturday Afternoon" by Robb Johnson
  • "It's Lovely To Be Back in London" by Judy Garland
  • "It's Nice to go Trav'ling" by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen
  • "It's Only Me" by Noël Coward ("Once I knew a kid, she used to live down Poplar way")
  • "I've Brought you Over and set you Down in the Last Edition of London Town..." by Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin (from the musical comedy The New Aladdin)

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  • "XR2" by MIA[1]

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  • "Ya Ga Ya Ga A Tramp" by Trinity
  • "Ye Citizens of London" from Doris (opera)
  • "The Year She Spent in England" by Weddings Parties Anything ("And the treasures found in Camden..")
  • "The Yeomen of the Guard Overture" [I] by Arthur Sullivan
  • "Yo Go Monarchs" by London Monarchs
  • "Yonatan Sa HaBaita" by Oshik Levi (Hebrew: יונתן סע הביתה, translation: "Yonatan, Go Home")
  • "You Broke My Heart In 17 Places" by Tracey Ullman (Shepherd's Bush)
  • "You Can Judge A Book By Its Cover" by Saint Etienne (SW14, Hanover Square etc.)
  • "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by The Rolling Stones (Chelsea drug store)
  • "You Can't Do It in London" by Overlord X
  • "You From London" by Sault
  • "You Lift Me Up" by Everything but the Girl ("And the trains run late, I'm stuck at Notting Hill Gate..")
  • "You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties" by Jona Lewie ("This was at some do in Palmers Green..")
  • "The Young and the Old" by Madness "All the old songs, the cockney routines.."
  • "Young London" by Angels & Airwaves
  • "Youth of Eglington" by Black Uhuru ("youth of Brixton..")
  • "You're In A Bad Way" by Saint Etienne "A man could lose himself in London.."
  • "You're So London" by Julie Andrews And Carol Burnett
  • "You're The One For Me, Fatty" by Morrissey ("All over Battersea, some hope and some despair..")
  • "You've Got Her London" by Pierce Turner

See also

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References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "35 songs about London". NME. 8 May 2017. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch "The 100 best London songs". Time Out. 18 February 2015. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g McAlpine, Fraser. "The Brit List: Summer of London – 10 Great London Songs". BBC America. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017.
  4. ^ Stokes, Niall (2005). Into The Heart: The Stories Behind Every U2 Song (Third ed.). Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 1-56025-765-2.
  5. ^ Cooper, Goolistan (28 September 2016). "Tributes to Fulham singer & Faith Brothers frontman Billy Franks". Getwestlondon.co.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  6. ^ a b c d "nthposition online magazine: 'Angel passage' by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins". 24 November 2004. Archived from the original on 24 November 2004. Retrieved 20 May 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. ^ "Alan Moore Fan Site – Bibliography". Archived from the original on 11 November 2004. Retrieved 20 May 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  8. ^ The lyric states: "Une nuit que j'tais a me morfondre, dans quelque pub anglais du coeur de Londres"
  9. ^ "'London Calling', Repurposed as a Tourism Jingle : The Record". NPR. 30 July 2011. Archived from the original on 25 December 2020.
  10. ^ Clugston, Harriet (13 November 2016). "20 Songs About London From The Punk And New Wave Era". Theculturetrip.com. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  11. ^ "Al Stewart – Past, Present and Future". The Strange Brew. Archived from the original on 20 November 2020.

External links

  • Readers recommend: songs about London, The Guardian, 7 July 2006
  • Songs about Regent's Park and Primrose Hill
  • Songs about London and Europe
  • The London Nobody Sings