List of songs about Manchester

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List of songs about Manchester, United Kingdom.

  • The Spinners - "Flowers of Manchester"
  • Shifty - "Manchester"
  • The Times - "Manchester"
  • Lionrock - "Snapshot on Pollard St."
  • Lionrock - "Wilmslow Rd."
  • Ian Brown - "Longsight M13"
  • Beautiful south - Manchester
  • Brian and Michael - "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs" (And parts of Ancoats where I used to play; about Manchester artist L. S. Lowry)
  • Doves - "Northenden"
  • Doves - "M62 Song"
  • Davy Jones - "Manchester Boy"
  • The Durutti Column - "28 Oldham" (The address of Factory Records' DryBar FAC201)
  • The Durutti Column - "Longsight Romance"
  • Eels - "Manchester Girl"
  • Elbow - "Station Approach"
  • Elbow - "Forget Myself"
  • Elbow - "Great Expectations" (About the 135 Bury-Manchester Bus Route)
  • Elbow - "Grounds for Divorce" (About The Temple, a bar in Manchester)
  • Inspiral Carpets - "Sackville" (About the red light district in Manchester)
  • The Fivepenny Piece - "City of Manchester"
  • Gomez - "Whippin' Piccadilly"
  • Marie Laforêt - "Manchester et Liverpool"
  • Mint Royale - "From Rusholme with Love"
  • Oasis - "Round Are Way"
  • Oasis - "Half The World Away"
  • Pomona (folksong) - Music hall song
  • The Fall - "Cheetham Hill"
  • The Fall - "City Hobgoblins" (Queen Victoria is a large black slug in Piccadilly Manchester)
  • The Fall - "Fit And Working Again" (Reception room, Victoria Station)
  • The Fall - "Bury"
  • The Freshies - "I'm in Love With the Girl on the Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk"
  • John Shuttleworth - "You're Like Manchester"
  • The Smiths - "Cemetery Gates" (about Southern Cemetery)
  • The Smiths - "Rusholme Ruffians"
  • The Smiths - "Miserable Lie" (What do we get for our trouble and pain but a rented room in Whalley Range?)
  • The Smiths - "Suffer Little Children" (Oh Manchester, so much to answer for; about the Moors murders)
  • The Smiths - "The Headmaster Ritual" (Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools)
  • Aidan Smith - "Song for Manchester"
  • The Stone Roses - "Mersey Paradise" (seeing as it runs through South Manchester)
  • The Stone Roses - "Daybreak" (from Atlanta, Georgia to Longsight, Manchester)
  • Joyce (singer) - "The Band on the Wall"
  • Ewan MacColl - "The Manchester Rambler"
  • Hair soundtrack - "Manchester"
  • Take That - "Mancunian Way"
  • The Courteeners - "Fallowfield Hillbilly"
  • The Courteeners - "The Opener"
  • Tractor - "Peterloo"
  • Tractor - "Drunken Angels and Sad Clowns aka- Manchester"
  • John Cooper Clarke - "Beasley Street"
  • Herman's Hermits - "It's Nice to be Out in the Morning"