This is a list of songs about London. 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 is simply name-checked along with various other cities (such as "New York, London, Paris, Munich", lyrics of "Pop Muzik" by M).

• "7.10 from Suburbia" by Jackie Trent
• "13 Chester Street" by The Pretty Things
• "22 Grand Job" by The Rakes
• "30 Minutes in London" by Antoine Dufour
• "59 Lyndhurst Grove" by Pulp
• "368" by Jamie T

• "'A' Bomb in Wardour Street" by The Jam
• "A13 Trunk Road to the Sea" by Billy Bragg(Wapping, Barking, Dagenham, Grays, Thurrock, Basildon)
• "Abhainn an t-Sluaigh" (The Crowded River) by Runrig
• "Absolutely Wrong" by Fred Chester and Tom Clare ('I'm Bertie Bright of Bond Street')
• "'Ackney Road" by Marie Lloyd
• "Across the River Thames" by Elton John
• "Acton Zulus" by Carbon/Silicon
• "A Cockney Christmas" by Dick Emery
• "A Day in the Life" by The Beatles ("now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall")
• "A Foggy Day in London Town" by George and Ira Gershwin
• "A London" by Petula Clark
• "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" by Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin and Jack Strachey.
• "Addington Shuffle" by the Drug Addix
• "Africa" by Madness (Holloway)
• "Aftermath" by R.E.M.
• "Alas Agnes" by Mystery Jets (The demo references King's Cross Station, though this was changed for the recorded version)
• "Albert and the 'Eadsman" by Marriott Edgar
• "Albion" by Babyshambles which namechecks various London districts
• "Alicia Quays" by Jamie T
• "All Change on the Bakerloo Line" by the Pyramids
• "All the Umbrellas in London" by The Magnetic Fields
• "All the Girls Love Alice" by Elton John (line "And who could you call your friends down in Soho?")
• "American Boy" by Estelle
• "Anarchy In Hackney" by Robb Johnson
• "And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" by Felix McGlennon ('There was once a country maiden came to London for a trip')
• "Always New Depths" by Bloc Party 'All the pennies in the Thames will not make it how it was'
• "The Angel, Highbury" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury
• "Angels Over Kilburn" by Hope of the States
• "Ann Boleyn" (The Bloody Tower) by R. P. Weston and Bert Lee
• "Anna the Auctioneer" by Noel Coward
• "Any Old Iron?" by Chas. Collins, E. A. Sheppard and Fred Terry
• "Apples" by Ian Dury
• "'Appy in 'Ampstead" by Albert Ketelbey
• "Archway People" by Saint Etienne
• "Archway Towers" by New Model Army
• "Argyle Square" by Orphans & Vandals
• "At the Chime of a City Clock" by Nick Drake
• "At the Palais de Dance" (from 'A Cockney Suite') by Albert Ketelbey
• "Autumngirlsoup" by Kirsty MacColl
• "A day on the town" by Madness

• "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" by Anonymous
• "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty
• "Baker Street Muse" by Jethro Tull
• "Bakerloo" (I) by King of Woolworths
• "Ballad of Barking Creek" by the Barrow Poets
• "Ballad of Bethnal Green" by Paddy Roberts
• "Ballad of the Woggler's Mooly" by Kenneth Williams ('But the Bow Street Runners caught him, and the judge said "He will swing"')
• "Ballad of Torrens Street" by Killing Miranda
• "Bands From London Are Shit" by MJ Hibbett
• "Bank Holiday (Appy 'ampstead')" by Albert Ketelbey
• "Bar Italia" by Pulp
• "Barbados" by Typically Tropical ('far away from London Town')
• "Barking Park Lane" by Riff Raff
• "Barmy London Army" by Charley Harper
• "The Barrow Boy Song" by Art Noel, Frank Walsh, Joe Burley and Harry Bull
• "Bathtime in Clerkenwell" by The Real Tuesday Weld
• "Battersea Bardot" by The Pearlfishers
• "Battersea Boys" by Chris Difford
• "Battersea Fair" by Chords 5
• "The Battle of Epping Forest" by Genesis, Selling England by the Pound. Although Epping Forest is (just) outside London, the battle was between two East End gangs, and the lyrics reference several London place-names (especially prisons).
• "The Bay of Battersea" by George Grossmith
• "Beckton Dumps" by Steve Marriott - Humble Pie (Eat It) album
• "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" by The Beatles (references Bishopsgate but the song is about a true event in 19th century Rochdale, Lancashire)
• "Belgravia" by Ikara Colt
• "The Belle of Barking Creek" by Paddy Roberts
• "Belsize Blues" by Al Stewart
• "Berkeley Mews" by the Kinks
• "Berlington Bertie" by Vesta Tilley
• "Berlington Bertie from Bow" by Ella Shields
• "Bertha from Balham" by Noel Coward
• "Best Days" by Blur
• "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize" by Engelbert Humperdinck
• "Big Ben Blues" by David Owen Norris
• "Big Black Smoke" by The Kinks
• "Billy Bentley" by Kilburn and the High Roads
• "Bingo" by Madness
• "Birdman of EC1" by Saint Etienne
• "[Birds (Kate Nash song)|Birds]]" by Kate Nash
• "Bitter Fingers" by Elton John (about the Denmark Street music publishing trade)
• "Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos" by Public Enemy ('Bass for your face London')
• "Black Boy Lane" by Babyshambles
• "The Black Grunger of Hounslow" by Kenneth Williams
• "Blackwall Reach" by Saint Etienne
• "Blessed" by Simon and Garfunkel ^[1]
• "Blind Eye" by Hunters & Collectors
• "Blue Day" by Suggs and Chelsea FC
• "Blue Is The Colour" by Chelsea FC ('Chelsea')
• "Blue Jeans" by Blur mentions Portobello Road
• "Blue Piccadilly" by The Feeling
• "Blue Room In Archway" by The Boo Radleys
• "Blue Skies Over Battersea" by Martin Ansell
• "Bollywood to Battersea" by Babyshambles
• "The Bond Street Beau" by F. W. Green and Alfred Lee
• "Born Slippy" by Underworld
• "Born to Be a Dancer" by Kaiser Chiefs
• "Bow E3" by Wiley
• "The Boy I Love Is up in the Gallery" by George Ware ('Johnny is a tradesman and he works in the Borough')
• "The Boy Looked at Johnny" by The Libertines
• "The Boys from Highbury" by Arsenal First Team Squad
• "Bright Young People" by Noel Coward ('We casually strive to keep London alive from Chelsea to Bloomsbury Square')
• "Bring Back The Routemaster" by Rukaiya Russell

• "British Grenadiers" - traditional march
• "Brixton" by UK Subs
• "Brixton Briefcase" by Chase and Status
• "Brompton Oratory" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• "Bubbles" by the Cockney Rejects ('West Ham')
• "Buckingham Palace" by A. A. Milne
• "Burberry Blue Eyes" by Razorlight
• "Burning The Boats" by Madness ( "The Government have announced that London Bridge is to be sold...")
• "Busdriver" by Kitto about taking the 73 bus from Euston to Stoke Newington
• "The Burchells of Battersea Rise" by Noel Coward
• "Burlington Bertie from Bow" by William Hargreaves
• "Bus Driver's Prayer" by Ian Dury (traditional)
• "Bus' It (Time To Get Busy )" by Blapps Posse
• "Business Girls" by Madeleine Dring
• "By Piccadilly Station I Sat Down and Wept" by Tracey Thorn
• "By The Sea" by Suede
• "Billericay Dickie" by Ian Dury & The Blockheads

• "Camberwell Skies" by Basement Jaxx
• "Camden Town" by Suggs
• "Camden Town Rain" by Mary Lou Lord
• "The Camera Eye" by Rush (which is also in the NYC list)
• "Can't Stop The Pirates" by Dica & Ben Intellect(about 'Hackney, East London')
• "Capital Radio" by The Clash
• "Carnaby Street" by Booker T. & The MG's
• "Carnaby Street" by The Jam
• "Casualty" by Visage (references The Tube)
• "Carrion" by British Sea Power
• "Cemeteries of London" by Coldplay
• "Chalk Farm to Camberwell Green" by Lionel Monckton
• "Champagne Charlie" by Alfred Lee ('From Coffee and from Supper Rooms, from Poplar to Pall Mall')
• "Changing of the Guard" by The Marquis of Kensington
• "Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)" by Spandau Ballet ('Greek Street. Le Beat Route')
• "Chapel Street Market 9AM" by Sabres of Paradise
• "Charlotte Street" by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
• "The Charlton Song" by the Gonads
• "Charlton Boys" by the Gonads
• "Charlton Tel's Stag Weekend" by the Gonads
• "Cheam" by the Exits
• "Chelsea" by Stamford Bridge
• "Chelsea Bridge" jazz standard by Billy Strayhorn
• "Chelsea Girl" by Ride
• "Chelsea Girl" by Simple Minds
• "Chelsea Kids" by Heavy Metal Kids
• "Chelsea Monday" by Marillion
• "Chelsea Nightclub" by The Members
• "Chelsea Walk" by Ocean Colour Scene
• "A Child's London - Six Pieces for Piano" (I) by Richard Edward Wilson
• "Circle Line" by Carmel
• "Cities" by Talking Heads
• "City of Blinding Lights" by U2^[2]
• "City of London" by the Mekons
• "Clark Gable" by The Postal Service
• "Clerkenwell Polka" by Madness
• "Clubland" by Elvis Costello
• "The Co-Communists" by Noel Coward
• "Cockaigne (in London Town)" by Edward Elgar
• "Cockfosters" by Pablo Gargano
• "The Cockney Amorist" by John Betjeman
• "Cockney Kids are Innocent" by Sham 69
• "A Cockney's Life For Me" by George Grossmith
• "The Cockney Lover (Lambeth Walk)" by [[Albert Ketelbey)
• "Cockney Rhythm" by Rebel MC
• "The Cockney Tragedian" by Ed Jones
• "Cockney Translator" by Smiley Culture
• "Cold Kilburn Rain" by Nick Saloman
• "Columbia" by Oasis (about the Columbia hotel in London)
• "Come Back to Camden" by Morrissey
• "Common People" by Pulp
• "Contact London" by Lab 4
• "Cooksferry Queen" by Richard Thompson
• "Cool For Cats" by Squeeze (Heathrow)
• "Cooperman (Sooper) Cooperman" - The Almost Legendary "Funky" Lol Ross, about a Leyton Orient player, begins, 'There's a man at Brisbane Road...'
• "Coster Joe" by Edward Kent ('On Sunday, strolling out at Kew')
• "The Coster's Serenade" by Albert Chevalier and John Crook ('Down at the Welsh 'Arp, which is 'Endon way')
• "Cosy Cafe" by Saint Etienne (about a cafe in Lee Valley, East London)
• "The Council Schools Are Good Enough for Me" by Percy Morris and Malcolm Ives
• "The Countryman's Bill of Charges" - composer unknown ('A countryman to London came')
• "Crack Away on the Arsenal Beano" by Arsenal FC
• "Crawling Up A Hill" by John Mayall
• "Croydon" by Captain Sensible
• "Cross Eyed Mary" Jethro Tull
• "Crushed Bones" by Why? ('In London, where the sirens yelp like a helpless dog')
• "Cruel Murder of Edward V and the Duke of York in the Tower" - composer unknown
• "Cunt London" by Sleeper

• "Dagenham Dave" by The Stranglers
• "Damn Good Show" by Noel Coward ('Everyone in London likes a damn good show')
• "Dans les rues de Londres" (In the streets of London, in French) by Mylène Farmer
• "Dark Streets of London" by The Pogues
• "Davy" by Danny Wilson
• "Day by Day" by Generation X about the Circle Line
• "Day on the Town" by Madness ('Summer in London')
• "Dead London" by Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
• "Dead End Street" by The Kinks - about a bedsit in Kentish Town
• "Dear River Thames" by Richard Digance
• "Debris" by The Faces
• "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" by The Kinks
• "Deer Park" by The Fall, starts with the line 'I took a walk down West 11'
• "Denmark Street" by The Kinks
• "Deptford Broadway Boogie" by Jools Holland
• "Deptford Days" by David Knopfler
• "Dettwork Southeast" by Blak Twang (mentions besides London:Brixton, Clapham, Hackney, West Ealing, Seven Sisters, SE8)
• "Diamonds in the Dark" by Mystery Jets, includes the line 'We would live on Delancey Street', a road in Camden
• "Dick-a-Dum-Dum (King's Road)" by Jim Dale
• "Dilly Boys" by The Libertines
• "The Directoire Girl" by J. P. Harrington and Orlando Powell ('I stopped the traffic all down Piccadilly')
• "Dirty Water" by The Inmates, originally about the River Charles and Boston, USA, this version is about the Thames and London
• "Disgusted E7" by The Wolfhounds
• "Districts" by Clifford Grey and A. W. Parry (references Maida Vale, Hammersmith, Battersea etc.)
• "Do the Strand" by Roxy Music
• "Do You Come Here Often?" by the Tornadoes ('see you down the 'Dilly')
• "Do You Really Like It?" by DJ Pied Piper and the Masters of Ceremonies
• "Don't Go Back to Dalston" by Razorlight
• "Don't Make Fun of the Festival" by Noel Coward - 1951 Festival of Britain on the South Bank
• "Dopamine Clouds Over Craven Cottage" by Stars of the Lid
• "Down at the Old Bull and Bush" by Hunting, Krone, Stirling and Von Tilzer
• "Down Below" by Sydney Carter ('It isn't hard to tell, down below, if it's Bow or Clerkenwell, down below')
• "Down in Drury Lane" by Paddy Roberts
• "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" by The Jam
• "Down The Lane" by Lionel Bart(about Petticoat Lane)
• "Down to London" by Joe Jackson
• "Downing Street Kindling" by Larrikin Love
• "Down With the Whole Darn Lot" by Noel Coward ('Down with the Garrick Club and Kensington Museum')
• "Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital" by Billy Jenkins
• "Dream" by Dizzee Rascal
• "Dress you Up" by Madonna ('suits from London')
• "Driving In My Car" by Mike Barson of Madness ('I drive up to Muswell Hill')
• "Drummed Out" by Edward Kent
• "Du Cane Road" by Topper Headon
• "Duffer St. George" by The Fiery Furnaces
• "Duke of Earlsfield" by Sabres of Paradise
• "The Duke of Seven Dials" by George Grossmith
• "Dungeon Town" by The Brotherhood

• "Earlies" by Trashcan Sinatras
• "Earls Court Breakdown Alan Tunbridge/Wizz Jones
• "Eastbound Train" by Dire Straits (New Cross Station, Mile End Road, Central Line etc.)
• "East End" by Cockney Rejects
• "East End Girl" by Cock Sparrer
• "EC 4" by The Flies
• "Eight Miles High" by The Byrds, includes the line 'Rain gray town known for its sound, in places Small Faces abound'
• "Electric Avenue" by Eddy Grant about a street in Brixton
• "Elegy (Thoughts on Passing the Cenotaph)" by Albert Ketelbey
• "Emit Remmus" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "England 2 Columbia 0" by Kirsty MacColl, references drinking 'in a pub in Belsize Park'
• "England's Glory" by Max Wall and Ian Dury
• "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West]] by Benny Hill (references Teddington)
• "England Swings" by Roger Miller (mentions Bobbies, Westminster Abbey, and Big Ben)
• "Euston Station" by The Oyster Band
• "Every Little Movement" by Karl Hoschna and Otto Harbach ('Up to the West End, right in the Best End, straight from the country came Miss Maudie Brown')
• "Everybody Salsa" by Modern Romance ('Now this ain't Puerto Rico, this is London E18')
• "Everything Eventually" by Appleton ('Let's go fly a kite on Primrose Hill'/'In the city feeling pretty')
• "Experience" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in Angel Passage - Blake's life in London ^[3]
• "Eyeless In Holloway" by Johnny Flynn

• "Fair Maid of Islington" (traditional) At the time of the song Islington was a village outside London
• "Fair Maid of London Town" - composer unknown
• "The Fairy Dancer" by Edward Kent ('One night I chanced to call at a West End Music Hall')
• "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead (About Canary Wharf)
• "A Fallen Star" by Albert Chevalier and Alfred H. West ('Thirty years ago I was a fav'rite at the Vic')
• "Fallin" by Adam and the Ants ('at the Screen on the Green')
• "The False-hearted Lass of Limehouse" - composer unknown
• "Fans" by Kings of Leon
• "Fare Dodgers Liberation Front" by The Visitors,2001
• "Far Flung Wastes of Harringay" by Tasmin Grey
• "Feed the Birds" from Mary Poppins
• "Feltham Is Singing Out" by Hard-Fi
• "Finchley Central" by The New Vaudeville Band
• "Fings Ain't What They Used to Be" by Lionel Bart
• "Finsbury Park" by Sex Pistols
• "First Night Back in London" by The Clash
• "Flightpath Estate" by Sabres of Paradise
• "Flirting on the Ice" by W. C. Mulaly - skating in Regent's Park
• "Floral Street" by Lionel Morton
• "A Foggy Day in London Town" by George and Ira Gershwin
• "Following in Farver's Footsteps" by E. W. Rogers ('My mother caught me out one evening, up the West End on the spree')
• "Fool on the Hill" by The Beatles - about an experience that Paul McCartney had on Primrose Hill
• "For the Girl" by The Fratellis
• "For Tomorrow" by Blur
• "Four Skinny Indie Kids" by Half Man Half Biscuit
• "Fourteen Hour Technicolour Dream" by The Syn about Allie Pallie, 1967
• "Forty Fahsend Fevvers on a Frush" by The Billy Cotton Band
• "France" by The Libertines
• "From Meadow to Mayfair" [I] by Eric Coates
• "From Wimbledon With Love" by The Wombles
• "Fug On A Bus" by Monkeyrush Punk rock written through the eyes of a South London thug
• "Funky London Childhood" by Marc Bolan and T.Rex
• "Funky Nassau" by Beginning of the End (references London Town)
• "Funny" by Harry Talbot ('I often stroll down Oxford Street to pass an hour away')

• "Galang" by M.I.A. - "London Calling, Speak the slang now"
• "Gasoline Alley" by Rod Stewart
• "(Get a) Grip (on Yourself)" by The Stranglers
• "Get Me To The Church On Time" by Alan Jay Lerner - "London is waking, daylight is breaking"
• "Get out of London" by Interferon
• "Get outta London" by Aztec Camera
• "Geoffrey Ingram" by Television Personalities
• "Gertcha" by Chas and Dave
• "The Ghosts of Cable Street" by The Men They Couldn't Hang
• "Gilbert Street" by Sweet Thursday
• "Girl from London" by Blue Cheer
• "The Girl in the Khaki Dress" by J. P. Harrington and George Le Brunn ('Pa's got a house at Regent's Park')
• "Girl VI" by Saint Etienne
• "Give My Regards to Leicester Square" by Victoria Monks
• "GLC" by Menace
• "Gloucester Road" by Special Needs (or The Needs)
• "Go Ahead London" by KCF Productions
• "Golden Square" [I] by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in Angel Passage ^[3]
• "Goldhawk Road" by Dustin's Bar Mitzvah
• "Good Life" by One Republic
• "Goodbye London" by Luke Jackson
• "Good Old Arsenal" by Arsenal FC
• "Graftin'" by Dizzee Rascal 'sky looks grey in London city/ we stay graftin' cos we're gritty'
• "The Greater London Radio" by Hefner
• "Greatest Cockney Christmas" by the Gonads
• "Greatest Cockney Rip-Off" by Cockney Rejects
• "Green Fields" by The Good, the Bad & the Queen
• "Green London - for violin, violincello and piano" (I) by Katharine Lovell
• "Greenwich Chorus" by Peter Howell
• "Greetings from Shitsville" by The Wildhearts
• "Grief Came Riding" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• "Groveley Road" by Saint Etienne
• "The Grunwick Affair" by Dennis Bovell(about Grunwick industrial dispute in North London)
• "The Guinea Guest" by Edward Kent ('I was sent to Portman Square')
• "Guns of Brixton" by The Clash

• "Hackney (Suffer Little Children)" by Creaming Jesus
• "Hairdresser on Fire" by Morrissey
• "Half A Person" by The Smiths
• "Hammersmith Hustle" by Flyover
• "Hampstead" by Adam and the Ants
• "Hampstead Girl" by The Dream Academy
• "Hampstead Incident" by Donovan
• "Hanging Around" by The Stranglers
• "Harmony Hall" by Edward Kent ('Haydn Bach of three Hyde Park')
• "Harrow Road" by Big Audio Dynamite
• "Harlesden" by Brinkman
• "Has It Come To This?" The Streets
• "Hat-trick" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury ^[4]
• "Hayes And Harlington Blues" by JDS Band
• "Heart of the City" by Nick Lowe
• "Heathrow" by Level 42
• "Heaven" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in Angel Passage - Blake's life in London ^[3]
• "Hell" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in Angel Passage - Blake's life in London ^[3]
• "Hello London" by Scarling.
• "He's On The Phone" by Saint Etienne
• "He That The Reason Would Know" by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley ('These three were buried near Marybone [Marylebone] Park' - from A Fair Quarrel, 1614)
• "Hey Young London" by Bananarama
• "Highgate Road Incident" by Saint Etienne
• "High Street Part Pedestrianised" by Billy Jenkins (from Still Sounds Like Bromley)
• "Highlife Picadilly" by African Messengers
• "Hilly Fields" by Nick Nicely, about an area of south London, near Ladywell
• "Hobart Paving" by Saint Etienne
• "The Hobnailed Boots That Farver Wore" by Billy Williams ('On Lord Mayor's Day, just to shout hooray, farver went and how he sauced 'em')
• "Hold Tight London" by The Chemical Brothers
• "Holloway Boulevard" by The Popes
• "Holloway Girl" by Marillion
• "Holloway Jail" by The Kinks
• "Hollywood (Down on your Luck)" by Thin Lizzy
• "Home For a Rest" by Spirit of the West
• "Hometown Glory" by Adele
• Hong Kong Garden by Siouxsie and the Banshees (Note: the song was inspired by and named after a Chinese restaurant in Chislehurst, London)
• "The Honour of a London Prentice" - composer unknown
• "Hoover Factory" by Elvis Costello
• "Hotel Columbia" by Jesse Malin
• "How's Life in London" by London Posse
• "Hunting for Witches" Bloc Party (Mentions the "30 bus")
• "Hyde Park" Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
• "Hyde Park" by I Marc 4
• "Hype Talk" Dizzee Rascal

• "Idiot Child" by Madness ("Spunky little kid from North West Five")
• "I'd Never Know" by Noel Coward ('Why is the Springtime giving London this lovely glow?')
• "The Idol of the Day" by The Great Vance and Alfred Lee ('St. James's I've my chambers in')
• "I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea" by Elvis Costello
• "I Feel Good All Over" by Bang The Party("I wanna dedicate this to London, young turned on London" from the London Acid House scene)
• "If I Can't Get to London" by David Craig Simpson
• "If It Wasn't for the Houses 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')
• "I'm Alright Jack" by Tom Robinson Band(Hampstead)
• "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 Trafalgar Square" by Clarence Wainwright Murphy
• "I Love London" by Lorraine Bowen
• "I Luv U" by Dizzee Rascal
• "I'm Going to Get Lit Up When the Lights Go Up in London" by Hubert Gregg - end of the WW2 blackout
• "I'm Old Fashioned" by Noel Coward and Johnny Mercer ('Those nightingales in Berkeley Square')
• "I'm One Of The Whitehall Warriors" by Phil Park
• "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
• "In London So Fair" (traditional)
• "Innocence" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in Angel Passage about William Blake's life in London http://web.archive.org/web/20041124170141/http://www.nthposition.com/angelpassage.php]
• "In Old Kent Road" by Arthur Seldon
• "Interlude - London Massive" by Aphrodite
• "In the Strand" by E. W. Mackney
• "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
• "Itchycoo Park" by the Small Faces about Little Ilford Park
• "It Could Be You" by Blur
• "It Gets Me Talked About" by Albert Chevalier and Alfred H. West ('Playin' 'ind legs of the helephant in East End pantomime')
• "It's Fun Finding Out About London" by Billie Anthony
• "It's a Great Big Shame" by Gus Elen
• "It's a Jolly Fine Game Played Slow!" by J.P. Harrington and George Le Brunn ('We just hired a cab and drove through St. James's Park')
• "It's a London Thing" by Scott Garcia 1997 Scott Garcia
• "It's a London Thing" by Mark Williams^{[disambiguation needed]} 2005
• "It's a London Thing" by S.A.S.
• "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" by Jack Judge and Harry Williams
• "It's Only Me" by Noel Coward ('Once I knew a kid, she used to live down Poplar way')
• "It Takes a Very Strong Imagination" by Edward Kent ('I trots her to the Opera or the Drury pantomime')
• "I've Never Lost My Last Train Yet" by George Le Brunn and George Rollit ('And I've joined with one and all in a Covent Garden ball')
• "Ivor" by Anonymous ('They yanked our sport, under police escort, to the London Bow Street sessions' - Ivor Novello was jailed for misuse of petrol coupons during World War Two)
• "I Was Born and Raised in Croxley Green" by Wilf Weston
• "I Was There (At the Coronation)" by Young Tiger

• "Jack Talking" by Dave Stewart and The Spiritual Cowboys
• "Jacob Street 7AM" by Sabres of Paradise
• "Jazzie's Groove" by Soul II Soul
• "Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square" by Jethro Tull
• "Johnny The Horse" by Madness ("To Regent's Park at Sunset")
• "Joyful Noise" by Donald Swann
• "John Willie, Come On" by George Formby, Sr. ('We went in Madame Tussaud's waxwork show and it were grand')
• "Juggernaut On The M25" by Pablo Gargano
• "Junkie Doll" by Mark Knopfler (From Sailing to Philadelphia album; he mentions both Turnpike Lane and Turnham Green)
• "Just For You London" by Bodysnatch

• "Kayleigh" by Marillion (Belsize Park)
• "Kensal Sunrise" by Cayenne
• "Kensington Gardens" by Robert Ganthony
• "Kentish Town Waltz" by Imelda May
• "Kew Gardens" by Ralph McTell
• "The Kilburn High Road" by Flogging Molly
• "King of Birds" by R.E.M. (refers to Trafalgar Square)
• "Kings of London" by Arsenal 1978 Squad
• "King's Cross" by Pet Shop Boys
• "A Knife for the Girls" by The Long Blondes
• "Knightsbridge March" by Wally Stott & his Orchestra
• "Knocked 'Em In The Old Kent Rd" by Albert Chevalier

See List of songs about London (L)

• "Mack The Knife" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill (John Willett's translation references the Strand, Embankment and Soho)
• "Mad Not Mad" by Madness ("Dancing over Big Ben
• "A Maid in Bedlam" {traditional}
• "Maids of Bond Street" by David Bowie
• "Maid of Primrose Hill" by Anonymous (18th century)
• "Maid of Tottenham" (traditional) At the time Tottenham was a village outside of London
• "Man I Hate Your Band" by Little Man Tate
• "Man Out of Time" by Elvis Costello (references Knightsbridge and Traitor's Gate)
• "Marcie Dreams of Deptford" by Saint Etienne
• "Marybone [Marylebone] Fair" by G. Smart
• "Mario's Cafe" by Saint Etienne (a cafe in Kentish town)
• "The Masher King of Piccadilly" by Richard Corney Grain
• "Mash It Up Harry" by Ian Dury(Wembley, Wembley Way, Harold Hill etc.)
• "The Masquerade" by I. Oakman ('None but the great can conveniently go to the Grand Masquerade most superb at Soho')
• "Maudie Golightly" by Noel Coward ('Though she had a flat in Albemarle Street')
• "Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner, (That I Love London So)" by Hubert Gregg
• "Mayfair" by Nick Drake
• "Me, Certainly Me" by A.D. River and James Moody^{[disambiguation needed]} ('I came up to London and walked down the Strand')
• "Meet Me in Battersea Park" by Petula Clark
• "Memories Of 3rd Base" by Skream (about the 3rd Base nightclub in central London)
• "Memory of a Free Festival" by David Bowie (about a festival in South London)
• "Men About Town" by Noel Coward ('As we stroll down Piccadilly in the bright morning air')
• "Mercy I Cry City" by The Incredible String Band - the reference to the "choky tube" make clear it's about London
• "The Merry Hostess" - composer unknown ('A lovely hostess fine that lives in London city')
• "A Merry Jest of John Tomson" - composer unknown ('If I but go to Islington')
• "Metroland" by Mark Knopfler
• "Midnight in Chelsea" by Jon Bon Jovi (about the Chelsea neighbourhood – lyrics include "I've seen a lone Sloane Ranger drive/Seems her chauffeur took a dive/And sold her secrets to The Sun")
• "Mile End" by Pulp
• "Milk Bottle Symphony" by Saint Etienne(about Turnpike House tower block, Goswell Road, Islington)
• "Mill Hill Self Hate Club" by Edward Ball
• "Mincing Lane" by Mike Mercado
• "Missing You" by Jimmy McCarthy - made popular by Christy Moore, about the Irish emigrant homeless in London
• "Mission From Hell" by Madness (references to Number 10 Downing Street)
• "Misty Morning Albert Bridge" by The Pogues
• "Modern Art" by Art Brut ("so I'm in the Tate and I'm looking at a Hockney")
• "Moon Over Archway" by Cath Carroll
• "Morden" by Good Shoes
• "Mouse In A Hole" by Heavy Stereo
• "Mornington Crescent" by Belle & Sebastian
• "Mother Goose" by Jethro Tull
• "The Mountains of Mourne" by Don McLean
• "The Mountains of Mourne" by William Percy French
• "Move On Now" by Hard-Fi (References Heathrow Airport)
• "Mr Speaker (Gets the Word)" by Madness (about Speaker's Corner; "Making space from Colney Hatch Lane")
• "Much Too Much" by Les Incompétents
• "Museum" by Donovan and Herman's Hermits ("meet me under the whale in the Natural History Museum")
• "Musical Address to the Town" by Thomas Lowe^{[disambiguation needed]} (reopening of Marylebone Gardens in 1763)
• "Muswell Hillbillies" by The Kinks
• "My Gal from London Town" by Fred Godfrey and Billy Williams
• "My Kitten Went to London" by Kid 606
• "My London Country Lane" by Alec Hurley (i.e. Drury Lane)
• "My Love Went to London" by John Wallowitch
• "My Lucy Liza from Bermondsey" by Medley Barrett
• "My Old Man" by Ian Dury(Victoria, Heathrow etc.)
• "My Old Man's a Dustman" by Lonnie Donegan, features Cockney rhyming slang
• "My Old Man (Said Follow the Van)" by Marie Lloyd, written by Charles Collins and Fred W Leigh
• "My Tom of Bedlam" by Bedlam Boys
• "M25" by DJ Choci

• "Nan I Am London" by Wiley
• "Narcissist" by The Libertines
• "Neasden" by Willie Rushton
• "Neasden Melody" by Jungle Jim
• "Next Plane to London" by Rose Garden
• "New Amsterdam" by Elvis Costello (Rotherhithe)
• "New Crass Massahkah" by Linton Kwesi Johnson
• "New Cross" By Part Chimp
• "New Thing From London Town" by Sharpe and Numan
• "New Tunbridge Wells at Islington" by John Lockman
• "Nice One Cyril" by the Cockerel Chorus ('Tottenham the pride of North London')
• "Night Bus To Dalston" by Bad Manners
• "The Night I Appeared as Macbeth" ('They made me a present of Mornington Crescent, they threw it a brick at a time') by William Hargreaves
• "Night Terror" by Laura Marling ('I woke up on a bench on Shepherds Bush Green')
• "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" by Eric Maschwitz and Manning Sherwin sung by Vera Lynn
• "No.1 With A Bullet" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury ^[4]
• "North London" by Wiley
• "North London Trash" by Razorlight
• "No More" by Noel Coward ('No more binges at the Piccadilly; Cafe Royal and Ritz, goodbye')
• "No Place Like London" by Stephen Sondheim
• "North Weezie" by BMD A slang term for the area of northwest London in particular the neighbourhoods with the famous NW10 postal code
• "North West Three" by Fatboy Slim
• "Northern Line" by Jamie T
• "Northern Line" by Yeti
• "Not Dark Yet" by Bob Dylan ('Well I been to London, and I been to gay Paree')
• "Nothing Can Save Us London" by Starpower
• "Notting Hill" by Trevor Jones
• "Notting Hill Eviction Blues" by Ram John Holder
• "Notting Hill Gate" by Quintessence
• "Now That You're Down In London" by Me & Him
• "NW3" by The Pogues
• "NW5" by Madness
• "NW10" by JC Carroll
• "NyLon Woman" By Holestar

• "The Oak and the Ash" (North Country Maid) (traditional)
• "Ode in Honour of the London Military Association" by O'Brien
• "Oh! 'Ampstead" by Albert Chevalier and John Crook ('The day you spent at 'Ampstead 'Eath you never will forget')
• "Oh! Mr. Porter" by George LeBrunn ('Came up to see wond'rous sights of famous London Town')
• "Old Compton Street Blues" by Al Stewart
• "The Old Main Drag" by The Pogues
• "Old Father Thames (Keep Rolling Along)" by Raymond Wallace
• "Old River Thames" by Automatics
• "Old Smokey" by Linda Lewis
• "Old Whitehall Number" by Sadie's Expression
• "Oliver's Army" by Elvis Costello
• "On a Mission" by The Rakes
• "On Bagnigge Wells" by Thomas Chapman and George Kirshaw - Bagnigge Wells was an 18th century spa in the King's Cross area
• "On London Bridge" by Jo Stafford
• "On Primrose Hill" by Suzanne Chawner
• "On the Day We Went to See the Coronation" by Gwen Lewis (Coronation of Elizabeth II, 1953)
• "On the Steps of Old St Pauls" by Billy Cotton
• "One For John Gee" by Jethro Tull - John Gee being manager of London's Marquee Club.
• "One Hundred Punks Rule" by Generation X
• "One Man Band" by Leo Sayer ('Everyone knows you in Ladbroke Grove')
• "The Only Living Boy in New Cross" by Carter USM
• "Operation Blade" by Public Domain ('Bass in the place London')
• "Opium Nights" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury ^[4]
• "Oranges and Lemons" (Bells of St. Clements) (traditional)
• "An Ordinary Copper" by Jeff Darnell and Jack Warner ('I'm an ordinary copper who's patrolling his beat, around Dock Green')
• "Original London Style" by London Posse
• "Orion" by Jethro Tull ('darkest Chelsea')
• "Ossie's Dream (Spurs on our Their Way To Wembley)" by Chas & Dave
• "Oxford Street" by Everything But The Girl
• "Oxford Street in the Blackout" by David Heavenor
• "Oxford St, W1" by Television Personalities
• "One Night in Hackney" by Dynamo City

• "P.25 London" by The Black Crowes
• "Painter Man" by The Creation
• "Panic" by The Smiths
• "Parkeskine" by Saint Etienne
• "Parliament Hill" by Saint Etienne
• "Part Time Punks" by Television Personalities
• "Parties In Chelsea" by Television Personalities
• "Party in Paris" by UK Subs ('meanwhile back in London')
• "Pentonville" by Babyshambles
• "Pentonville Blues" by Glide & Swerve featuring Boy George
• "Pepper's Ghost" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury
• "Peter the Painter" by Ian Dury
• "Petticoat Lane (On A Saturday Ain't So Nice) by [[Lionel Bart)
• "Piccadilly" by Squeeze
• "The Piccadilly Baronet" by Ronald Bagnall
• "Piccadilly Circus" by Bo Jangle
• "Piccadilly Circus" by Pernilla Wahlgren
• "Piccadilly Circus" by Frank Boeijen (in Dutch)
• "Piccadilly Circus" by I Marc 4
• "Piccadilly Circus" by Stiff Little Fingers
• "Piccadilly Folks" by Lord Kitchener
• "Piccadilly Palare" by Morrissey
• "Piccadilly Sidetracks" by The Enemy
• "The Piccadilly Trail" by The Style Council
• "The Piccadilly Trot" by George Arthurs and Worton Davis
• "Pie and Mash" by the Gonads
• "Pigeon Song" by Patrick Wolf
• "Pimlico" by David Devant & His Spirit Wife
• "Pinball" by Brian Prothero
• "Pinball Wizard" by The Who
• "Pissed Up in SE 1" Aphex Twin
• "Places" by Fountains of Wayne
• "Plaistow Patricia" by Ian Dury
• "Plaistow Flex Out" by Squarepusher
• "Plastic Surgery" by Adam and the Ants ('gonna take you down to Harley Street')
• "Play with Fire" by The Rolling Stones
• "The Pleasures of Spring Gardens, Vauxhall" by William Boyce
• "A Poem on the Underground Wall" by Simon and Garfunkel
• "Polly Perkins of Paddington Green" by Harry Clifton
• "Pop" by Edward Kent ('It was at a ball in Poplar')
• "Pop Goes the Weasel" - traditional ('Up and down the City Road, in and out the Eagle')
• "Portobello Belle" by Dire Straits
• "Portobello Road" from Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• "Portobello Road" by Cat Stevens
• "Postcard From London" by Ray Davies
• "Powis Square" by Ry Cooder
• "The Prettiest Star (Gloucester Road)" by David Bowie
• "Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green" - originally a music hall song
• "Primrose Hill" (I - piano duet) by Albert Durante
• "Primrose Hill" by Beverley Martyn
• "Primrose Hill" by Kathe Green
• "Primrose Hill" by Loudon Wainwright III
• "Primrose Hill" by Madness
• "Primrose Hill" by Pat Kenny and Mirsad
• "Primrose Hill" by Peggy Seeger
• "Primrose Hill" by Ray Russell
• "Primrose Hill" (I) by Saint Etienne
• "A Prince In A Pauper's Grave" by Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine
• "Princely Wooing of the Fair Maid of London" - composer unknown
• "Products" by Sway DaSafo feat. El Rae
• "Pudding Mill Lane" by Saint Etienne
• "Pulled Along by Love" by The Mutton Birds - trains on the Northern Line
• "Pump Up London" by Mr Lee
• "Quite Au Fait" by Strake Shenton and Alfred Lee ('I'm called the fav'rite of West-end')

• "Rain Fall Down" by The Rolling Stones
• "Raining in London" by Isaac Hayes
• "A Rainy Day in London" by Paris
• "Rainy Day in London" by the Peddlers
• "Rainy Night in Soho" by The Pogues
• "A Ramble In St James's Park" Michael Nyman
• "Rayner's Lane" by Real People
• "Real Estate" by Blak Twang(mentions SE8, Tanner's Hill, Stockwell Park Estate, Stonebridge, Broadwater Farm, Baskerville residents, New Cross)
• "Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3" by Ian Dury
• "Red London" by Sham 69
• "Regent Street" by I Marc 4
• "Regent's Canal" by Nancy Bush and Alfred Ralston
• "Regent's Park" (I - quick march) by Cyril Johnson
• "Regent's Park" (I) by Neotropic - Riz Maslen
• "Regent's Park" by Sonic Magpie
• "Regent's Park in Blue" by Dan Melchior
• "Reggie" by Charles Vivian and Fred Stanton ('At Richmond on Sundays you'll see me no doubt')
• "Remembering Petticoat Lane" by John Williams (an instrumental from the Jurassic Park film score)
• "Remote Control" by The Clash
• "Renee" by Small Faces
• "Rendezvous 6:02" by UK
• "Respect Me" by Dizzee Rascal (reference to "Holly Street" in E8)
• "Retreat" by The Rakes
• "Rhyme" by William Walton
• "Rich Girl" by Gwen Stefani ft Eve ('Please book me first class to my fancy house in London Town')
• "Rich Ah Gettin Richer" by Rebel MC (references Tottenham 3, London massive etc.)
• "Richmond" by The Faces
• "River of Butterflies" by Kitto (lyrics Andrew McDonald) mentions taking from overground to underland the Piccadilly Line as an escape from London via Heathrow
• "The Road To Hell" by Chris Rea (not strictly London, but about the M25 motorway around London)
• "Rock 'N' Roll Lies" by Razorlight
• "Romford Girls" by Riff Raff
• "A Room in Bloomsbury" by Sandy Wilson
• "Rossmore Road (NW1)" by Barry Andrews
• "Round Here" By George Michael
• "Round the Marble Arch" by Ralph Butler and Noel Gay
• "The Rover" by Led Zeppelin ("I've been to London...")
• "Ruby Soho" by Rancid
• "Rudie Can't Fail" by The Clash (Mentions the "19 bus")
• "Run" by Kasia Stankiewicz

• "Sad Mona Lisa" by Television Personalities
• "Sal and Methuselam" by F.C. Sansom, probably 1866, sung by William H. Lingard
• "Sale of the Century" by Sleeper
• "Sam Hall" (composer unknown) performed by W.G. Ross ('I goes up Holborn Hill in a cart')
• "Sam's Town" by The Killers
• "Satellite" by Sex Pistols
• "Saturday Gigs" by Mott the Hoople
• "Saturday Night Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees" by The Leyton Buzzards ('I discovered heaven in the Seven Sisters Road also 'Crews from Balham and Golders Green and loads of places I've never been'...)
• "Saturday Nite" by Earth, Wind & Fire
• "Save The World, Get The Girl by The King Blues
• "Scarlet Begonias" by Grateful Dead (As I was walking 'round Grosvenor Square...)
• "SE18" by The Visitors, 2003
• "Second Floor Croydon" by Burnin'Red
• "Second Hand" by Wilfred Bramble (a sweet little song from 1962 that namechecks London locations and is sung as if by Steptoe senior)
• "See My Friends" by The Kinks ('They'll cross the river...' Thames)
• "Serjeant Sharp of Lincoln's Inn" by Walter Greenaway and Alfred Lee
• "Serpentine Gallery" by Alternative TV
• "Seven Sisters Road" by Dan Reed Network
• "Seven Sisters Road" by Alien Stash Tin (About a bus ride down the road mentioned in the title')
• "Shad Thames" by Saint Etienne
• "Sheila" by Jamie T
• "She Was Poor But She Was Honest" by R.P. Weston and Bert Lee ('Then she ran away to London to hide her grief and shame')
• "Shouting for the Gunners" by Arsenal FC and Tippa Irie
• "Sid's Song" by Inner City Unit ('In London town where I was born')
• "Sights and Sounds of London Town" by Richard Thompson
• "Signs" by Music Legends Snoop Dogg & Justin Timberlake
• "Singers Hampstead Home" by Microdisney
• "Sir Keith at Lambeth" by Mount Vernon Arts Lab
• "Sirens Of Acre Lane" by Genaside II('Acre Lane' is in Brixton)
• "Ska Night Bus to Dalston" by Bad Manners
• "Skeleton Horse" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury ^[4]
• "Slaughter at Primrose Hill" (I) by Frank Popp
• "Slim Slow Slider," by Van Morrison ('Saw you walking down by Ladbroke Grove this morning...')
• "Slow Down at the Castle" by Saint Etienne
• "The Smart Walking Jockey" by Mr. Cob and Wm. Shield ('Wherever I go from Mile End to Soho')
• "Small Town Girl" by Good Shoes (References Reynes Park High School, Raynes Park)
• "Smashing Time" by Television Personalities
• "Soho" by Bert Jansch & John Renbourn
• "Soho" by Brand X
• "Soho" by DJ Bountyhunter
• "Soho" by I Marc 4
• "Soho" by Light of the World
• "Soho" by Pop Instrumental De France
• "Soho" by Smart Alec
• "Soho A Go Go" by the Members
• "Soho Mojo" by Spyro Gyra
• "Soho (Needless to say)" Al Stewart
• "Soho Square" by Kirsty Maccoll
• "Soho St Ives Tangier" by the Focus Group
• "Soho Strut" by Secret Affair
• "Solitary Confinement" by The Members
• "Solo in Soho" by Phil Lynott
• "Someone in London" by Godsmack [i]
• "Song for Clay (Disappear Here)" by Bloc Party
• "Song for Ruth Ellis" by Adam and the Ants ('Violence in Hampstead')
• "So Rotton" by Blak Twang(London - West, East, South, North and NW)
• "Sorted for E's and Wizz" by Pulp
• "South London Boroughs" by Burial
• "Sound of the Suburbs" by The Members
• "South of the River" by Mica Paris
• "South London Aggro Girl" by the Gonads
• "Southern Belles in London Sing" by The Faint
• "Southside" by the Southside Allstars (A Grime song about South London)
• "Souvenir of London" by Procol Harum
• "Space Cakes" by Kaotic Chemistry ('North London posse in the place')
• "Spirit" by Razorlight
• "Spring-Heel'd Jack(The Terror of London)" by the Gonads
• "Stagger" by Underworld
• "Stand Up Tall" by Dizzee Rascal
• "Stanwell" by Action Pact
• "Stardom in Acton" by Pete Townshend
• "A State Procession (Buckingham Palace)" by Albert Ketelbey
• "Statuesque" by Sleeper
• "Stay Free" by The Clash
• "A Story of a Musical Box" by Edward Kent ('They drove him in the van to Pentonville')
• "Strange Town" by The Jam
• "Streatham Hippodrome" by Cuppa T
• "Street Fighting Man" by The Rolling Stones
• "Streets of London" by Clover
• "Streets of London" by Harry Belafonte
• "Streets of London" by Blackmore's Night
• "Streets of London" by Ralph McTell
• "Streets of London" recorded by Adelaide Hall on her album 'Adelaide Hall Live at The Riverside Studios'. Although the song was written by Ralph McTell, Miss Hall introduced American audiences to the song when she sang it at Carnegie Hall in New York.
• Streets of Whitechapel by JC Carroll
• "Street Tuff" by Rebel MC
• "Strolling Down the Strand" by Fred Godfrey and Leslie Sarony
• "Strolling in the Burlington" by Alfred Lee and Frank Green (Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly)
• "Sugarhouse Lane" by Saint Etienne
• "Sugar & Spice" by Madness ("We bought a flat in Golders Green, A second-hand fridge and a washing machine)
• "Suicide on Downing Street" by Tim Finn
• "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits
• "Sunday" by Bloc Party
• "Sunday Afternoon In Belgrave Square" by Trevor Bilmuss
• "Sunny Goodge Street" by Donovan
• "Sunny South Kensington" by Donovan
• "Suspicious Eyes" by The Rakes
• "Suzy" by Benny Hill ('Now I wandered down into Soho')
• "SW5" by Mike Silver
• "Swan Wharf" by Saint Etienne
• "Swedish Sin" by Billie the Vision and the Dancers
• "The Sweet Salutation on Primrose Hill" by Anonymous (17th century)
• "Sweet Thames Flow Softly" by Ewan MacColl
• "Sweet Thames Flow Softly" by Planxty
• "Sweet Thing" by Van Morrison
• "Swinging London" by London
• "Swinging London" by The Magnetic Fields
• "Swinging London Town" by Girls Aloud
• "Swinging London" by The Pretenders
• "Symphony No 2 London" by Ralph Vaughan Williams

• "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" by Florrie Forde
• "Take me in a Taxi, Joe" by Bennett Scott
• "Taking After Dear Old Dad" by Noel Coward ('Later on I meet a pal and stroll with him along the Mall')
• "Taste of Aggro" by The Barron Knights ('We're from Catford etc.')
• "The Tears Shed in London Tonight" by R.P. Weston and Bert Lee
• "Telephone Language" by Frank Leo ('Gwendoline Earle was a telephone girl and employed at a London exchange')
• "Tell Them You're A Londoner" by Fred Godfrey and Billy Williams
• "Tell Me When The Whistle Blows" by Elton John
• "Ten Downing Street" by The Nerve
• "Terrible Accident on the Ice in Regent's Park" by Anonymous (19th century)
• "That Awful Joke" by Edward Kent ('Hi! Conductor, put me down at Holborn Viaduct')
• "That'll Be Very Useful Later On" by Noel Coward ('Mary had them watched from Charing Cross to Golders Green')
• "That's What I Like" by Chas & Dave
• "The Arsenal" by Blak Twang
• "The Ballad of Climie Fisher" by Half Man Half Biscuit
• "The Dead Girls Of London" by Frank Zappa
• "The Laughing Gnome" by David Bowie
• "The Liberty Of Norton Folgate" by Madness (references Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets and Bow as well as the historicallly independent district of Norton Folgate
• "The Streets of London" by The Challengers - The B-side to "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."
• "The Taking of Peckham" by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
• "The Theatre" by Pet Shop Boys
• "The Picadilly Trot" sung by Marie Lloyd, an old music hall number
• "They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace" Harold Fraser-Simson
• "There's Nothing To Be Had Without Money" - composer unknown ('All parts of London I have tried')
• "There's No Place Like London" by Shirley Bassey
• "They're Changing Guards at Buckingham Palace" by A. A. Milne
• "This Is London" by Don McGlashan
• "This Is London" by Akala
• "This World Over" by XTC
• "Three Juvenile Delinquents" by Noel Coward ('Once we pinched a Cadillac and drove her from the Marble Arch to Kew')
• "Three White Feathers" by Noel Coward (Ealing girl makes good)
• "Tied Up Too Tight" by Hard-Fi (references the Great West Road)
• "Till the Lights of London Shine Again" by Tommie Connor and Edward Pola
• "A Tiny Flat in Soho Square" performed by Cicely Courtneidge and Harold French
• "Tired of England" by Dirty Pretty Things
• "Today London, Tomorrow The World" by London Funk Allstars
• "Tomorrow Night" by The Front Lawn
• "Tonite Let's All Make Love In London" by Carrington featuring Lisa McQuillanll
• "Tooting Bec Wrecked" by Hanoi Rocks
• "Too Much Brandy" by The Streets (mentions a tube train and the Dog Star pub, Brixton)
• "Top of the Morning" by Noel Coward ('London is shiny and free, that is, as free as a Democracy can be')
• "Torn On The Platform" by Jack Peñate
• "The Tottenham Toreador" by Edward Kent
• "Total Confusion" by A Homeboy, A Hippie And A Funki Dredd
• "Tottenham Tottenham" by Tottenham Hotspur FC
• "Tower of London" by ABC
• "Towers of London" by XTC
• "Trafalgar Square" by Charles Deane^{[disambiguation needed]}, an old music hall number
• "Trafalgar Square" by I Marc 4
• "Traffic In Fleet Street" by Nick Heyward
• "Trams of Old London" by Robyn Hitchcock
• "Transmetropolitan" by The Pogues
• "Trinity Wharf" by Saint Etienne
• "Tropical London" by Rancid
• "Turned Away" by Audio Bullys
• "Turpin Hero" by Anonymous - 1790 (Dick Turpin: 'Hounslow Heath as I rode o'er')
• "Twenty-Four Minutes from Tulse Hill" by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine

• "UFO's over Leytonstone" by Squarepusher
• "'Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?" by Alexei Sayle (the Thames Barrier, Bermondsey, Peckham etc.)
• "The Um-Ber-El-La-Mender" by George Leybourne and Alfred Lee ('Standing in the Strand with cigar-lights')
• "Underground Music" by Ivor Biggun ('On London Transport, I used to do my shopping')
• "Underneath the Arches" by Bud Flanagan, the Arches were the railway arches near Charing Cross railway station
• "Unemployed in Summertime" by Emiliana Torrini (Primrose Hill)
• "Upfield" by Billy Bragg (William Blake on Primrose Hill)
• "Up The Bracket" by The Libertines
• "Up The Junction" by Squeeze

• "The Vauxhall Labyrinth" by Mount Vernon Arts Lab
• "Victoria Gardens" by Madness
• "Victoria Station (1944)" by Kitto
• "Violet Hill" by Coldplay [it's a small street between Maida Vale and Abbey Road in St John's Wood]
• "Viva El Fulham" by Tony Rees and the Cottagers

• "Waiting for the 7.18" by Bloc Party ("the Northern Line")
• "Walking Down the Kings Road" by Squire
• "Walking in London" by Concrete Blonde
• "Walking in the Zoo" by H.W. Sweny and Alfred Lee
• "Walk of Life" by Spice Girls
• "Wake Up London!" (TV Theme) by The Vulcans
• "Wapping Old Stairs" - composer unknown popular 18th/19th ballad
• "A Warning to Youth" - composer unknown ('In London dwelt a merchant man')
• "Warwick Avenue" by Duffy
• "Waterloo Road" by Lionel Morton
• "Waterloo Station" by Jane Birkin lyrics by Rufus Wainwright
• "Waterloo Sunset" by The Kinks
• "Way Down the Regent's Canal" by Edward Kent
• "Welcome to London" by Zagu Zar, a dance hall remake of the song "Welcome to Jamrock" by Damian Marley
• "Welcome to London Town" by Julian Dawson
• "We Are London" by Madness
• "We Are Wimbledon" by Wimbledon FA Cup Squad 1988
• "We Call It Acieeed" by D-Mob (about the London Acid House scene mentions the Spectrum, Future and Shoom Acid House nights).
• "We Live Our Lives in City Streets" by Noel Coward ('The London traffic's steady roar can stir our hearts a great deal more')
• "We The Kings Of Orient" by Orient FC
• "The Wembley Trail" by Wave Band
• "We're Going To The Country" by Lionel Bart
• "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon
• "West End Girls" by Pet Shop Boys
• "West End Of Park Lane" by Hot Chocolate
• "West End Riot" by The Living End
• "West Ham United" by West Ham United Cup Squad
• "West London Ghosts" by Guiye Frayo
• "West One (Shine on Me)" by The Ruts
• "Westminster Chimes" by Sonic Youth
• "Westminster Waltz" [I] by Russ Conway
• "What a Waste" by Ian Dury
• "When the Guards Do the Birdcage Walk" by Fred Godfrey and John P. Harrington
• "When the Lights Go Up in London" by Hubert Gregg
• "When We Were Girls Together" by Noel Coward ('Oh how the gallants of Battersea Rise followed us round with lascivious eyes')
• "When You Hear Big Ben" by Vera Lynn
• "While London's fast asleep" by Harry Dacre
• "While London Sleeps by Mount Vernon Arts Lab
• "While London Sleeps" by traditional
• "White City" by The Pogues
• "White City Fighting" by Pete Townshend
• "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais" by The Clash
• "White Post Lane" by Saint Etienne
• "White Riot" by The Clash
• "Who Are You" by The Who
• "Who Dares Wins" by The Streets
• "Who Got the Funk?" by The Streets
• "Why Can't We Have the Sea in London?" by Fred Godfrey and Billy Williams
• "Why London" by Eskobar
• "Wild West End" by Dire Straits
• "Wild Women" by Benny Hill ('Now I was in a Chelsea bar one day')
• "Willesden Green" by The Kinks
• "Willesden To Cricklewood" by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
• "William and Dinah" by Anonymous ('It's of a liquor merchant in London did dwell')
• "Wimbledon Break Point" by Bassline
• "Wimbledon FA Cup Theme" by Wimbledon FA Cup Squad 1988
• "Wimbledon Idyll" by Kit and the Widow
• "The Wine Bars of Old Hampstead Town" by Alexei Sayle (folk song parody)
• "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" by R. P. Weston and Bert Lee ('In the Tower of London large as life, the ghost of Anne Boleyn walks they declare')
• "Without You" by The Feeling
• "The Wombling Song" by The Wombles
• "Working Mother" by Martyn Joseph
• "The World is Coming to London" by Billy Cotton
• "Wormwood Scrubs" by Dominic Behan
• "Wormwood Scrubs Tango" by Spike Milligan
• "The Worthy London Prentice" - composer unknown
• "The Wreck Off London Bridge" by G.W. Hunt

• "Yachting in Regent's Park" by Thomas Case Sterndale Bennett
• "The Year She Spent In England" by Weddings Parties Anything
• "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'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties" by Jona Lewie, ("This was at some do in Palmers Green")
• "Young Betsy of Deptford" by Anonymous
• "Your Embrace" by Shakira, "...That without you this place looks like London"
• "You're the One for Me, Fatty" by Morrissey

• List of songs banned by the BBC
• List of music videos set in London

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