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* "Day By Day" by Generation X - repeats 'Going round and round, day by day, on the Circle line' throughout the song |
* "Day By Day" by Generation X - repeats 'Going round and round, day by day, on the Circle line' throughout the song |
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* "Dead End Street" by [[The Kinks]] - about a bedsit in Kentish Town |
* "Dead End Street" by [[The Kinks]] - about a bedsit in Kentish Town |
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* "Do The Strand" by [[Roxy Music]] |
* "Do The Strand" by [[Roxy Music]] |
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* "Down At The Old Bull & Bush" by Hunting/Krone/Stirling/Von Tilzer |
* "Down At The Old Bull & Bush" by Hunting/Krone/Stirling/Von Tilzer |
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* "Guns of Brixton" by [[The Clash]] |
* "Guns of Brixton" by [[The Clash]] |
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* "Hampstead Incident" by [[Donovan]] |
* "Hampstead Incident" by [[Donovan]] |
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* "Hanging Around" by [[The Stranglers]] |
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* "Harrow Road" by [[Big Audio Dynamite]] |
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* "Hat-trick" by [[Alan Moore]] and [[Tim Perkins]] in ''The Highbury Working''- each song about a time of Highbury [http://web.archive.org/web/20041111090611/http://www.alanmoorefansite.com/bib/highbury.html] |
* "Hat-trick" by [[Alan Moore]] and [[Tim Perkins]] in ''The Highbury Working''- each song about a time of Highbury [http://web.archive.org/web/20041111090611/http://www.alanmoorefansite.com/bib/highbury.html] |
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* "Hairdresser on Fire" by [[Morrissey]] - a song about a hairdresser in "London, giddy London...home of the brash, outrageous, and free" |
* "Hairdresser on Fire" by [[Morrissey]] - a song about a hairdresser in "London, giddy London...home of the brash, outrageous, and free" |
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* "Heart of the City" by [[Nick Lowe]] |
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* "Heaven" by [[Alan Moore]] and [[Tim Perkins]] in ''Angel Passage'' - [[William Blake|Blake]]'s life in London [http://web.archive.org/web/20041124170141/http://www.nthposition.com/angelpassage.php] |
* "Heaven" by [[Alan Moore]] and [[Tim Perkins]] in ''Angel Passage'' - [[William Blake|Blake]]'s life in London [http://web.archive.org/web/20041124170141/http://www.nthposition.com/angelpassage.php] |
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* "Hell" by [[Alan Moore]] and [[Tim Perkins]] in ''Angel Passage'' - [[William Blake|Blake]]'s life in London [http://web.archive.org/web/20041124170141/http://www.nthposition.com/angelpassage.php] |
* "Hell" by [[Alan Moore]] and [[Tim Perkins]] in ''Angel Passage'' - [[William Blake|Blake]]'s life in London [http://web.archive.org/web/20041124170141/http://www.nthposition.com/angelpassage.php] |
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* "Ichycoo Park" by the [[Small Faces]], about Wanstead Flats |
* "Ichycoo Park" by the [[Small Faces]], about Wanstead Flats |
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* "Inbetweener" by [[Sleeper]], about the East London suburb of [[Ilford]] |
* "Inbetweener" by [[Sleeper]], about the East London suburb of [[Ilford]] |
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* "In the City" by [[The Jam]] |
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* "In Iverna Gardens" by [[The Lilac Time]] |
* "In Iverna Gardens" by [[The Lilac Time]] |
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* "Innocence" by [[Alan Moore]] and [[Tim Perkins]] in ''Angel Passage'' - [[William Blake|Blake]]'s life in London [http://web.archive.org/web/20041124170141/http://www.nthposition.com/angelpassage.php] |
* "Innocence" by [[Alan Moore]] and [[Tim Perkins]] in ''Angel Passage'' - [[William Blake|Blake]]'s life in London [http://web.archive.org/web/20041124170141/http://www.nthposition.com/angelpassage.php] |
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* "Lavender Cry" (traditional) Lavendar sellers song |
* "Lavender Cry" (traditional) Lavendar sellers song |
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* "Leaving London" by [[Tom Paxton]] |
* "Leaving London" by [[Tom Paxton]] |
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* "Let's All Go Down The Strand" (trad?) |
* "Let's All Go Down The Strand" (trad?) |
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* "Limbo" by [[Alan Moore]] and [[Tim Perkins]] in ''The Highbury Working''- each song about a time of Highbury [http://web.archive.org/web/20041111090611/http://www.alanmoorefansite.com/bib/highbury.html] |
* "Limbo" by [[Alan Moore]] and [[Tim Perkins]] in ''The Highbury Working''- each song about a time of Highbury [http://web.archive.org/web/20041111090611/http://www.alanmoorefansite.com/bib/highbury.html] |
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* "'''London'''" by [[Queensrÿche]] |
* "'''London'''" by [[Queensrÿche]] |
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* "'''London'''" by [[Red Pony]] |
* "'''London'''" by [[Red Pony]] |
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* "'''London'''" by [[The Smiths]] |
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* "'''London'''" by [[Third Eye Blind]] |
* "'''London'''" by [[Third Eye Blind]] |
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* "'''London''' Belongs To Me" by [[Saint Etienne (band)|Saint Etienne]] |
* "'''London''' Belongs To Me" by [[Saint Etienne (band)|Saint Etienne]] |
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* "'''London''' Born" by [[King Prawn]] |
* "'''London''' Born" by [[King Prawn]] |
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* "'''London''' Boys" by [[Marc Bolan and T.Rex]] |
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* "'''London''' Boys" by [[David Bowie]] |
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* "'''London''' Bridge" (traditional) |
* "'''London''' Bridge" (traditional) |
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* "[[London Calling (song)|'''London''' Calling]]" by [[The Clash]] |
* "[[London Calling (song)|'''London''' Calling]]" by [[The Clash]] |
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* "'''London''' Girl" by [[The Pogues]] |
* "'''London''' Girl" by [[The Pogues]] |
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* "'''London''' Girls" by [[Stephen Duffy| Duffy]] |
* "'''London''' Girls" by [[Stephen Duffy| Duffy]] |
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* "'''London''' Girls" by [[The Vibrators]] |
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* "'''London''' Hornpipe" [I] (traditional) |
* "'''London''' Hornpipe" [I] (traditional) |
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* "'''London''' Lady" by [[The Stranglers]] |
* "'''London''' Lady" by [[The Stranglers]] |
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* "Play with Fire" by [[The Rolling Stones]] |
* "Play with Fire" by [[The Rolling Stones]] |
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* "Poor Joey" by [[Ian Dury]] |
* "Poor Joey" by [[Ian Dury]] |
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* "Powis Square" by [[Ry Cooder]] (from the Performance soundtrack) |
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* "Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green" (traditional) |
* "Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green" (traditional) |
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* "Primrose Hill" by [[Madness_(band)|Madness]] |
* "Primrose Hill" by [[Madness_(band)|Madness]] |
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* "Red '''London'''" by [[Sham 69]] |
* "Red '''London'''" by [[Sham 69]] |
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* "The Road To Hell" by [[Chris Rea]] (not strictly London, but about the [[M25 motorway]] around London) |
* "The Road To Hell" by [[Chris Rea]] (not strictly London, but about the [[M25 motorway]] around London) |
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* "Saturday Gigs" by [[Mott the Hoople]] |
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* "Seven Sisters Road" by [[Dan Reed Network]] |
* "Seven Sisters Road" by [[Dan Reed Network]] |
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* "Sights And Sounds Of London Town" by [[Richard Thompson]] |
* "Sights And Sounds Of London Town" by [[Richard Thompson]] |
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* "Stagger" by [[Underworld]] |
* "Stagger" by [[Underworld]] |
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* "Strange Town" by [[The Jam]] |
* "Strange Town" by [[The Jam]] |
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* "Street Fighting Man'''" by [[The Rolling Stones]] |
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* "Streets of '''London'''" by [[The Anti Nowhere League]] |
* "Streets of '''London'''" by [[The Anti Nowhere League]] |
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* "Streets of '''London'''" by [[Harry Belafonte]] |
* "Streets of '''London'''" by [[Harry Belafonte]] |
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* "White Riot" by [[The Clash]] |
* "White Riot" by [[The Clash]] |
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*[[Who are you]] by [[The Who]] |
*[[Who are you]] by [[The Who]] |
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* "Wild West End" by [[Dire Straits]] |
* "Wild West End" by [[Dire Straits]] |
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* "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by [[The Rolling Stones]] (Chelsea drug store) |
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Revision as of 14:49, 4 January 2006
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).
- "A13, Trunk Road to the Sea" by Billy Bragg - most of the lyrics are about Essex, but the road starts in London!
- "A Bomb in Wardour Street" by The Jam
- "A Day On The Town" by Madness
- "A Foggy Day in London Town" by George and Ira Gershwin
- "Aftermath" by R.E.M.
- "Albert and the 'Eadsman" by Marriott Edgar
- "Albion" by The Libertines which namechecks various London districts
- "Angel Delight" by Fairport Convention
- "The Angel Highbury" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury [1]
- "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
- "Billy Bentley" by Ian Dury
- "Bollywood to Battersea" by Babyshambles
- "Blue Room In Archway" by The Boo Radleys
- "Brompton Oratory" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
- "Bus Driver's Prayer" by Ian Dury (traditional)
- "By The Sea" by Suede (band)
- "Camden Town" by Madness
- "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 Monday" by Marillion in Script for a Jester's Tear - [2]
- "Come Back to Camden" by Morrissey
- "Cool For Cats" by Squeeze
- "Cooksferry Queen" by Richard Thompson
- "Crawling Up A Hill" by John Mayall and covered by Katie Melua in 2003
- "Dark Streets of London" by The Pogues
- "Davey" by Dabby Wilson
- "Day By Day" by Generation X - repeats 'Going round and round, day by day, on the Circle line' throughout the song
- "Dead End Street" by The Kinks - about a bedsit in Kentish Town
- "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion" by The Kinks
- "Do The Strand" by Roxy Music
- "Down At The Old Bull & Bush" by Hunting/Krone/Stirling/Von Tilzer
- "Down In The Tube Station At Midnight" by The Jam
- "Down to London" by Joe Jackson
- "Driving In My Car" by Madness
- "Electric Avenue" by Eddie Grant, about a street in Brixton
- "Emit Remmus" by The Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "Euston Station" by The Oyster Band
- "Experience" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in Angel Passage - Blake's life in London [3]
- "Fair Maid of Islington" (traditional) At the time of the song Islington was a village outside London
- "Finchley Central" by The New Vaudeville Band
- "First Night Back in London" by The Clash
- "For Tomorrow" by Blur
- "Get out of London" by Interferon
- "Girl from London" by Blue Cheer
- "Girl VI" by Saint Etienne - namechecks numerous London districts
- "Golden Square" [I] by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in Angel Passage - [4]
- "The Greater London Radio" by Hefner
- "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 [5]
- "Hairdresser on Fire" by Morrissey - a song about a hairdresser in "London, giddy London...home of the brash, outrageous, and free"
- "Heart of the City" by Nick Lowe
- "Heaven" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in Angel Passage - Blake's life in London [6]
- "Hell" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in Angel Passage - Blake's life in London [7]
- "Home For a Rest" by Spirit of the West
- "I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea" by Elvis Costello
- "I love London" by Tommy Page
- "Ichycoo Park" by the Small Faces, about Wanstead Flats
- "Inbetweener" by Sleeper, about the East London suburb of Ilford
- "In the City" by The Jam
- "In Iverna Gardens" by The Lilac Time
- "Innocence" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in Angel Passage - Blake's life in London [8]
- "It's A London Thing" by Scott Garcia (1997)
- "It's A London Thing" by Mark Williams (2005)
- "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 Pet Shop Boys
- "Knocked 'Em In The Old Kent Rd" by Albert Chevalier
- "Lady, That's My Skull!" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury [9]
- "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
- "Leaving London" by Tom Paxton
- "Let 'em Come" by Roy Green- Official Song Of Millwall F.C.
- "Let's All Go Down The Strand" (trad?)
- "Limbo" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury [10]
- "Londinium" by Catatonia
- "L-O-N-D-O-N" by Screaming Lord Sutch
- "London" by Tangerine Dream in Tyger [11]
- "London" by The Pet Shop Boys
- "London" by Queensrÿche
- "London" by Red Pony
- "London" by The Smiths
- "London" by Third Eye Blind
- "London Belongs To Me" by Saint Etienne
- "London Born" by King Prawn
- "London Boys" by Marc Bolan and T.Rex
- "London Boys" by David Bowie
- "London Bridge" (traditional)
- "London Calling" by The Clash
- "London City" (traditional) A version of Barbara Allen
- "London Girl" by The Jam
- "London Girl" by The Pogues
- "London Girls" by Duffy
- "London Girls" by The Vibrators
- "London Hornpipe" [I] (traditional)
- "London Lady" by The Stranglers
- "London Leatherboys" by Accept
- "London Loves" by Blur
- "London Pride" by Noel Coward
- "London Rain" by Heather Nova
- "London River" by Fairport Convention
- "London Skies" by Jamie Cullum
- "London Still" by The Waifs
- "London's Brilliant Parade" by Elvis Costello
- "London's Burning" by The Clash
- "London's Burning" (traditional)
- "London Talking" by Ian Dury
- "London Town" by Light Of The World (reissued/remixed as "London Town 85")
- "London Town" Paul McCartney
- "London Town" 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 Lady" The Stranglers
- "London, London" by Caetano Veloso
- "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 - [12]
- "Lullaby of London" by The Pogues
- "Maid of Tottenham" (traditional) At the time Tottenham was a village outside of London
- "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
- "Midnight in Chelsea" by Jon Bon Jovi
- "Mile End" by Pulp
- "Mill Hill Self Hate Club" by Edward Ball
- "Misty Morning Albert Bridge" by The Pogues
- "The Mountains Of Mourne" by William Percy French
- "Muswell Hillbillies" by The Kinks
- "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)
- "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 [13]
- "North West Three" by Fatboy Slim
- "The Oak and the Ash" (North Country Maid) (traditional)
- "The Old Main Drag" by The Pogues
- "The Only Living Boy in New Cross" by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
- "Opium Nights" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury [14]
- "Oranges and Lemons" (Bells of St. Clements) (traditional)
- "Ossie's Dream" by Chas and Dave
- "P.25 London" by The Black Crowes
]* "Pepper's Ghost" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury [15]
- "Piccadilly Palare" by Morrissey
- "Plaistow Patricia" by Ian Dury
- "Play with Fire" by The Rolling Stones
- "Poor Joey" by Ian Dury
- "Portobello Belle" by Dire Straits
- "Powis Square" by Ry Cooder (from the Performance soundtrack)
- "Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green" (traditional)
- "Primrose Hill" by Madness
- "Primrose Hill" by John Martyn and Beverley Martyn
- "A Rainy Night in Soho" by The Pogues
- "Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3" by Ian Dury
- "Red London" by Sham 69
- "The Road To Hell" by Chris Rea (not strictly London, but about the M25 motorway around London)
- "Saturday Gigs" by Mott the Hoople
- "Seven Sisters Road" by Dan Reed Network
- "Sights And Sounds Of London Town" by Richard Thompson
- "Soho Square" by Kirsty Maccoll
- "Sorted For E's And Whizz" by Pulp
- "Southern Belles in London Sing" by The Faint
- "Stagger" by Underworld
- "Strange Town" by The Jam
- "Street Fighting Man" by The Rolling Stones
- "Streets of London" by The Anti Nowhere League
- "Streets of London" by Harry Belafonte
- "Streets of London" by Ralph McTell
- "A Souvenir of London" by Procol Harum
- "A Skeleton Horse" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury [16]
- "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits
- "Sunny Goodge Street" by Donovan
- "Sunny South Kensington" by Donovan
- "Swinging London Town" by Girls Aloud
- "They're Changing Guards at Buckingham Palace" by A. A. Milne
- "Transmetropolitan" by The Pogues
- "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
- "Upminster Kid" by Ian Dury
- "Victoria Gardens" by Madness
- "The Wombling Song" by The Wombles
- "Walk Of Life" by Spice Girls (mentions "London town")
- "Waterloo Sunset" by The Kinks
- "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon
- "Welcome To London Town" by Julian Dawson
- "West End Girls" by Pet Shop Boys
- "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 Man in Hammersmith Palais" by The Clash
- "White Riot" by The Clash
- Who are you by The Who
- "Wild West End" by Dire Straits
- "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by The Rolling Stones (Chelsea drug store)
See also
- List of songs whose title includes geographical names
- Lists of songs - List of dozens of other similar lists
- List of songs about Manchester
'Street Fighting Man' - The Rolling Stones 'Remote Control' - The Clash