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).

• "22 Grand Job" by The Rakes ("Down to Old Street Thursday night" - Old Street is in EC1)
• "59 Lyndhurst Grove" by Pulp

• "'A' Bomb in Wardour Street" by The Jam
• "A Day in the Life" by The Beatles
• "A Day On The Town" by Madness
• "A Foggy Day in London Town" by George and Ira Gershwin
• "A Knife For The Girls" by The Long Blondes
• "A Maid In Bedlam" (traditional) - Bedlam was the name for the Bethlem Royal Hospital, London's first psychiatric 'hospital'
• "Abhainn an t-Sluaigh" (The Crowded River) by Runrig
• "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 the Umbrellas in London" by The Magnetic Fields
• "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 - Kilburn is an area in North London (NW6)
• "Ann Boleyn" (The Bloody Tower) by R.P.Weston and Bert Lee
• "Any Old Iron" (traditional)
• "Apples" by Ian Dury
• "Archway People" by Saint Etienne title is a reference to the Archway area of London

• "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty
• "Ballad of Torrens Street" by Killing Miranda
• "Bar Italia" by Pulp
• "Belgravia" by Ikara Colt
• "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" by The Beatles (Bishopsgate)
• "Big Black Smoke" by The Kinks
• "Billy Bentley" by Kilburn and the High Roads
• "Black Boy Lane" by Babyshambles
• "Blind Eye" by Hunters & Collectors
• "Blue Piccadilly" by The Feeling
• "Blue Room In Archway" by The Boo Radleys
• "Bollywood to Battersea" by Babyshambles
• "Born Slippy" by Underworld
• "Born To Be A Dancer" by Kaiser Chiefs
• "Boy Looked at Johnny, The" by The Libertines
• "Brompton Oratory" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• "Bus Driver's Prayer" by Ian Dury (traditional)
• "By The Sea" by Suede

• "Camera Eye, The" by Rush
• "Camden Town" by Suggs
• "Capital Radio" by The Clash
• "Carnaby Street" by The Jam
• "Carrion" by British Sea Power "From Scapa Flow to Rotherhithe I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide."
• "Charlotte Street" by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
• "Chelsea Girl" by Ride
• "Chelsea Girl" by Simple Minds
• "Chelsea Monday" by Marillion in Script for a Jester's Tear [1]
• "Chelsea Walk" by Ocean Colour Scene
• "Chester Street" by The Pretty Things
• "Cities" by Talking Heads
• "Clark Gable" by The Postal Service
• "Come Back to Camden" by Morrissey
• "Common People" by Pulp
• "Cool For Cats" by Squeeze
• "Cooksferry Queen" by Richard Thompson
• "Cooperman (Sooper) Cooperman" - The Almost Legendary "Funky" Lol Ross, about a Leyton Orient player, begins, 'There's a man at Brisbane Road...'
• "Creep" - by The Cannonades
• "Cross Eyed Mary" Jethro Tull
• "Crawling Up A Hill" by John Mayall and covered by Katie Melua in 2003

• "Dark Streets of London" by The Pogues
• "Davy" by Danny Wilson
• "Day By Day" by Generation X about the Circle Line
• "Dead End Street" by The Kinks - about a bedsit in Kentish Town
• "Debris" by The Faces
• "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion" by The Kinks
• "Denmark Street" by The Kinks
• "Diamond In The Dark" by Mystery Jets, includes the line 'We would live on Delancey Street', a road in Camden
• "Dilly Boys" by The Libertines
• "Disgusted E7" by The Wolfhounds
• "Do the Strand" by Roxy Music
• "Don't Go Back to Dalston" by Razorlight
• "Down At The Old Bull and Bush" by Hunting, Krone, Stirling and Von Tilzer
• "Down In The Tube Station At Midnight" by The Jam
• "Down to London" by Joe Jackson
• "Downing Street Kindling" by Larrikin Love
• "Dream" by Dizzee Rascal
• "Driving In My Car" by Madness
• "Duffer St. George" by The Fiery Furnaces

• "Earlies" by Trashcan Sinatras
• "East End" by Cockney Rejects
• "East End Girl" by Cock Sparrer
• "Electric Avenue" by Eddie Grant about a street in Brixton
• "Emit Remmus" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "England's Glory" by Max Wall and Ian Dury
• "Euston Station" by The Oyster Band
• "Experience" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in Angel Passage - Blake's life in London [2]

• "Fair Maid of Islington" (traditional) At the time of the song Islington was a village outside London
• "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
• "First Night Back in London" by The Clash
• "Fool on the Hill" by The Beatles - about an experience that Paul McCartney had on Primrose Hill
• "For Tomorrow" by Blur
• "Forget Myself" by Elbow
• "Fourteen Hour Technicolour Dream" by The Syn about Allie Pallie, 1967

• "Gasoline Alley" by Rod Stewart
• "(Get a) Grip (on Yourself)" by The Stranglers
• "Get out of London" by Interferon
• "Get Outta London" by Aztec Camera
• "Girl from London" by Blue Cheer
• "Girl VI" by Saint Etienne namechecks numerous London districts
• "Gloucester Road" by Special Needs (or The Needs)
• "Golden Square" [I] by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in Angel Passage [3]
• "Goldhawk Road" by Dustin's Bar Mitzvah
• "Graftin'" by Dizzee Rascal 'sky looks grey in London city/ we stay graftin' cos we're gritty'
• "The Greater London Radio" by Hefner
• "Greetings From Shitsville" by The Wildhearts
• "Grief Came Riding" by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
• "Guns of Brixton" by The Clash

• "Hampstead Incident" by Donovan
• "Hanging Around" by The Stranglers
• "Harrow Road" by Big Audio Dynamite
• "Hat-trick" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury [4]
• "Hairdresser on Fire" by Morrissey - a song about a hairdresser in "London, giddy London...home of the brash, outrageous, and free"
• "Harry Rag" by The Kinks
• "Harlesden" by Brinkman
• "Heart of the City" by Nick Lowe
• "Heaven" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in Angel Passage - Blake's life in London [5]
• "Hell" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in Angel Passage - Blake's life in London [6]
• "Hello London" by Scarling.
• "Hey Young London" by Bananarama
• "Hold Tight London" by The Chemical Brothers
• "Home For a Rest" by Spirit of the West
• "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails
• "Hunting For Witches" by Bloc Party (Mentions the "30 bus", which travels from Hackney Wick to Marble Arch)
• "Hype Talk" Dizzee Rascal

• "I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea" by Elvis Costello
• "I Like London In The Rain" by Blossom Dearie
• "I'm Trying to Make London My Home" by Sonny Boy Williamson
• "If I Can't Get To London" by David Craig Simpson
• "Innocence" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in Angel Passage about William Blake's life in London [7]
• "In London So Fair" (traditional)
• "Itchycoo Park" by the Small Faces about Little Ilford Park
• "It's A London Thing" by Scott Garcia 1997 Scott Garcia
• "It's A London Thing" by Mark Williams 2005
• "It's A London Thing" by S.A.S.
• "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" by Jack Judge and Harry Williams

• "Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square" by Jethro Tull

• "The Kilburn High Road" by Flogging Molly
• "King's Cross" by the The Pet Shop Boys
• "Knocked 'Em In The Old Kent Rd" by Albert Chevalier

• "LDN" by Lily Allen
• "Lady Grinning Soul (London)" by David Bowie
• "Lady, That's My Skull!" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury
• "Lambeth Walk" by Noel Gay from Me & My Girl, 1937
• "Landing in London" by 3 Doors Down featuring Bob Seger
• "Last Train to London" by The Electric Light Orchestra
• "Lavender Cry" (traditional) Lavendar sellers song
• "Lavender Hill" by The Real Tuesday Weld
• "Leave The Capitol" by The Fall - Mark E Smith's plea to "exit this Roman shell" and return to Manchester
• "Leaving London" by Tom Paxton
• "Leicester Square" by Rancid
• "Let 'em Come" by Roy Green official song of Millwall F.C.
• "Let's All Go Down The Strand" (traditional?)
• "Leyton Orient Scored More Goals Than Any Other Fourth Division Team in '88/'89" - The Almost Legendary "Funky" Lol Ross
• "Life In London" by Mighty Terror from the album "Calypso @ Dirty Jim's"
• "Light At The End Of The Tunnel" by Half Man Half Biscuit is about a girl moving to Notting Hill
• "Light Skin Girl from London" by Lenny Kravitz
• "Lights of London" by David Gray
• "Lights Out" by UFO
• "Limbo" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury [8]
• "Lions" by Dire Straits mentions - The Cutty Sark, Tea Clipper in dry dock at Greenwich
• "Living in Tottenham" by Frank Chickens
• "Living with unemployment" by The New Town Neurotics
• "Lola" by The Kinks
• "Londinium" by Catatonia
• "L-O-N-D-O-N" by Screaming Lord Sutch
• "London" by Tangerine Dream in Tyger [9]
• "London" by Anthrax
• "London" by David Axelrod (musician) 1969
• "London" by Eoin Woods on Everytime (Irish musician in Boston in early 1990s)
• "London" by Bowling for Soup
• "London" by Barry Manilow
• "London" by Alanis Morissette
• "London" by Noonday Underground
• "London" by Patrick Wolf
• "London" by The Pet Shop Boys
• "London" by Porcupine Tree
• "London" by Queensrÿche
• "London" by Red Pony
• "London" by The Smiths
• "London" by Third Eye Blind
• "London Belongs To Me" by Saint Etienne
• "London Beckoned Songs About Money Written By Machines" by Panic! At The Disco
• "London Bombs" by Eskimo Joe
• "London Born" by King Prawn
• "London Boys" by T. Rex
• "London Boys" by David Bowie
• "London Boys" by Johnny Thunders
• "London Bridge" (traditional)
• "London Bridge" by Bread
• "London Bridge" by Fergie
• "London Bridge" by Mindless Self Indulgence
• "London By Night" by Carroll Coates
• "London Calling" by The Clash
• "London Calling" by The Calling
• "London Calling" by The Lambrettas
• "London Can You Wait" by Gene
• "London City" (traditional) A version of Barbara Allen
• "London Dungeon" by The Misfits
• "London Girl" by The Jam
• "London Girl" by The Pogues
• "London Girls" by Tori Amos
• "London Girls" by Chas & Dave
• "London Girls" by Stephen Duffy
• "London Girls" by The Vibrators
• "London Halflife" by Metric
• "London Homesick Blues" by Jeff Beck
• "London Homesick Blues" by Jeff Walker
• "London Hornpipe" [I] (traditional)
• "London I Love, The (sung by Vera Lynn (1940s), author unknown)
• "London is the Place for Me" by Lord Kitchener
• "London Lady" by The Stranglers
• "London Leatherboys" by Accept
• "London Loves" by Blur
• "London, Luck and Love" by Hall and Oates
• "London Pride" by Noel Coward
• "London Rain" by Heather Nova
• "London River" by Fairport Convention
• "London School Of Economics" by Acid House Kings
• "London Skies" by Jamie Cullum
• "London Song" by The Breeders
• "London Still" by The Waifs
• "London Sun" by Wheatus
• "London Town" by The Holloways
• "London's Brilliant Parade" by Elvis Costello
• "London's Burning" by The Clash
• "London's Burning" (traditional)
• "London's Mine" by White Rose Movement
• "London Talking" by Ian Dury
• "London Town" by Light Of The World (reissued/remixed as "London Town 85")
• "London Town" by Paul McCartney
• "London Town" by The Pretty Things
• "London Town" by James Taylor
• "London Traffic" by The Jam
• "London Tu Nachdi" by Apache Indian
• "London's Brilliant" by Elvis Costello (written for Wendy James)
• "London's Brilliant Parade" by Elvis Costello, a different song to the previous entry.
• "London's Mine by White Rose Movement
• "London Lady" The Stranglers
• "London, London" by Caetano Veloso
• "London Social Degree" by Billy Nicholls
• "London Underground" by Amateur Transplants
• "London, You Owe Me This Much" by Plastik
• "London You're a Lady" by The Pogues
• "Lonely Hearts" by Richard and Linda Thompson
• "Lost Rivers of London" (aka "London's Lost Rivers") by Coil in Unnatural History III - [10]
• "Lucifer Over London" by Current93
• "Lullaby of London" by The Pogues

• "Maid of Tottenham" (traditional) At the time Tottenham was a village outside of London
• "Maid of Bond Street" by David Bowie
• "Man I Hate Your Band by Little Man Tate
• "Mash It Up Harry" by Ian Dury
• "Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner, (That I Love London So)" by Hubert Gregg
• "Mayfair" by Nick Drake
• "Mercy I Cry City" by The Incredible String Band - the reference to the "choky tube" make clear its about London
• "Midnight in Chelsea" by Jon Bon Jovi
• "Mile End" by Pulp
• "Mill Hill Self Hate Club" by Edward Ball
• "Missing You" by Jimmy McCarthy - made popular by Christy Moore, about the Irish emigrant homeless in London
• "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")
• "Mornington Crescent" by Belle & Sebastian
• "Mother Goose" by Jethro Tull
• "The Mountains Of Mourne" by William Percy French
• "The Mountains Of Mourne" by Don McLean
• "Move On Now" by Hard-Fi (References Heathrow Airport)
• "Muswell Hillbillies" by The Kinks
• "My Kitten Went to London" by Kid 606
• "My Love Went to London" by John Wallowitch
• "My Old Man" by Ian Dury
• "My Old Man's A Dustman" by Lonnie Donegan, features Cockney rhyming slang.
• "My Tom of Bedlam" (Bedlam Boys)

• "Narcissist" by The Libertines
• "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" by Maschwitz and Sherwin
• "No.1 With A Bullet" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury [11]
• "Northern Line" by Jamie T
• "North Weezie" by BMD (Northweezee) Bashy and co reppin' their endz
• "North West Three" by Fatboy Slim

• "The Oak and the Ash" (North Country Maid) (traditional)
• "The Old Main Drag" by The Pogues
• "Old River Thames" by Automatics
• "Oliver's Army" by Elvis Costello
• "One Hundred Punks Rule" by Generation X
• "The Only Living Boy in New Cross" by Carter USM
• "Opium Nights" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury [12]
• "Oranges and Lemons" (Bells of St. Clements) (traditional)
• "Ossie's Dream" by Chas & Dave
• "Oxford Street" by Everything But The Girl
• "Oxford St, W1" by Television Personalities

• "P.25 London" by The Black Crowes
• "Painter Man" by The Creation
• "Pepper's Ghost" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury
• "Piccadilly" by Squeeze
• "Piccadilly Palare" by Morrissey
• "The Piccadilly Trail" by The Style Council
• "Pigeon Song" by Patrick Wolf
• "Pinball Wizard" by The Who
• "Plaistow Patricia" by Ian Dury
• "Playboy" by Hot Chip
• "Play with Fire" by The Rolling Stones
• "Portobello Belle" by Dire Straits
• "Powis Square" by Ry Cooder (from the Performance soundtrack)
• "The Prettiest Star (Gloucester Road)" by David Bowie
• "Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green" by (traditional)
• "Primrose Hill" by Madness
• "Primrose Hill" by John Martyn and Beverley Martyn
• "Products" by Sway DaSafo feat. El Rae
• "Pulled Along By Love" by The Mutton Birds - trains on the Northern Line

• "A Rainy Day in London" by Paris
• "A Rainy Night in Soho" by The Pogues
• "A Rainy Night in Soho" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• "Rayner's Lane" by Real People
• "Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3" by Ian Dury
• "Richmond" by The Faces
• "Red London" by Sham 69
• "Remote Control" by The Clash
• "Renee" by The Small Faces
• "The Road To Hell" by Chris Rea (not strictly London, but about the M25 motorway around London)
• "Rossmore Road" by Barry Andrews
• "Ruby Soho" by Rancid

• "Sale of the Century" by Sleeper
• "Sam's Town" by The Killers
• "Satellite" by The Sex Pistols
• "Saturday Gigs" by Mott the Hoople
• "Saturday Night Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees" by The Leyton Buzzards
• "Scatman" by Scatman John
• "See My Friends" by The Kinks ('They'll cross the river...' Thames)
• "Seven Sisters Road" by Dan Reed Network
• "Sheila" by Jamie T
• "Sights And Sounds Of London Town" by Richard Thompson
• "Signs" by music legends Snoop Dogg & Justin Timberlake
• "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 [13]
• "Slim Slow Slider," by Van Morrison ('Saw you walking down by Ladbroke Grove this morning...')
• "Solo in Soho" by Phil Lynott
• "Soho" by Bert Jansch And John Renbourn
• "Soho (Needless to say) Al Stewart
• "Soho Square" by Kirsty Maccoll
• "Soho Strut" by Secret Affair
• "Someone in London" by Godsmack [i]
• "Song For Clay (Disappear Here)" by Bloc Party
• "Sorted For E's And Whizz" by Pulp
• "Sound of the Suburbs" by The Members
• "Southern Belles in London Sing" by The Faint
• "Southside" by the Southside Allstars. (A grime song about South London[14])
• "Souvenir of London" by Procol Harum
• "Stagger" by Underworld
• "Stand Up Tall" by Dizzee Rascal
• "Strange Town" by The Jam
• "Street Fighting Man" by The Rolling Stones
• "Streets of London" by Anti-Nowhere League
• "Streets of London" by Harry Belafonte
• "Streets of London" by Ralph McTell
• "Suicide On Downing Street" by Tim Finn
• "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits
• "Sunny Goodge Street" by Donovan
• "Sunny South Kensington" by Donovan
• "Sweet Thing" by Van Morrison
• "Swinging London" by London
• "Swinging London" by The Magnetic Fields
• "Swinging London Town" by Girls Aloud

• "The Boy Looked At Johnny" by The Libertines
• "They're Changing Guards at Buckingham Palace" by A. A.Milne
• "This Is London" by Don McGlashan
• "This Is London" by Akala
• "Tied Up Too Tight" by Hard-Fi
• "Tomorrow Night" by The Front Lawn
• "Tooting Bec Wrecked" by Hanoi Rocks
• "Torn On The Platform" by Jack Penate
• "Tower of London" by ABC
• "Towers of London" by XTC
• "Traffic In Fleet Street" by Nick Heyward
• "Trams of Old London" by Robyn Hitchcock
• "Transmetropolitan" by The Pogues
• "Tropical London" by Rancid
• "Turned Away" by Audio Bullys
• "Twenty-Four Minutes from Tulse Hill" by Carter USM

• "Underneath the Arches" by Bud Flanagan, the Arches were the railway arches near Charing Cross railway station
• "Up The Bracket" by The Libertines which occurs on the Cally Road (Caledonian Road Islington N1) and the Vallance Road (Bethnal Green E2)
• "Up The Junction" by Squeeze

• "Victoria Gardens" by Madness

• "The Wombling Song" by The Wombles
• "Waiting For The 7.18" by Bloc Party ("the Northern Line is the loudest")
• "Walk Of Life" by Spice Girls (mentions "London town")
• "Walking Down the Kings Road" by Squire
• "Walking in London" by Concrete Blonde
• "Waterloo Sunset" by The Kinks
• "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon
• "Welcome to London" by Zaggu Zar, a dancehall remake of the song "Welcome to Jamrock" by Damian Marley AKA JR Gong (who is the youngest son of Bob Marley).
• "Welcome To London Town" by Julian Dawson
• "West End Girls" by The Pet Shop Boys
• "West End Riot" by The Living End
• "Westminster Chimes" by Sonic Youth
• "What A Waste" by Ian Dury
• "When the Lights Go Up In London" by Hubert Gregg
• "White City" by The Pogues
• "White City Fighting" by Pete Townshend
• "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais" by The Clash
• "White Riot" by The Clash
• "Who Are You" by The Who
• "Why London" by Eskobar
• "Wild West End" by Dire Straits
• "Willesden Green" by The Kinks
• "The Wine Bars of Old Hampstead Town" by Alexei Sayle (folk song parody)
• "Working Mother" by Martyn Joseph
• "The Year She Spent In England" by Weddings Parties Anything

• "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..."
• "Your Embrace" by Shakira, "...That without you this place looks like London..."
• "You're the One for Me, Fatty" by Morrissey