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* "Limehouse" by [[Fats Waller]] (from 'The London Suite')
* "Limehouse" by [[Fats Waller]] (from 'The London Suite')
* "London By Night" by [[Frank Sinatra]]
* "London City" by [[Damidamon]]
* "London City" by [[Damidamon]]

* "London Calling" by [[The Clash]]
* "London Calling" by [[The Clash]]


Revision as of 01:42, 1 November 2012

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 (e.g. "New York, London, Paris, Munich", lyrics of "Pop Muzik" by M).

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B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

  • "I Am What I Am (Battersea Tramp)" by Bill & Buster
  • "Ice Cold In Fulham" by The Tigers
  • "Idiot Child" by Madness ("Spunky little kid from North West Five")
  • "I'd Never Know" by Noël 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 I Could" by David Essex ("Canning Town" etc.)
  • "If Looks Could Kill" by Garry Johnson
  • "If It Wasn't for the 'ouses in Between" by Edgar Bateman and George Le Brunn (1894, sung by Gus Elen - "With a ladder and some glasses you can see to Hackney Marshes")
  • "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 Lambeth" by The Monochrome Set
  • "I Love London" by Crystal Fighters
  • "I Love London" by Lorraine Bowen
  • "I Luv U" by Dizzee Rascal
  • "Ill Manors" by Plan B
  • "I Might Be Lyin'" by Eddie & The Hot Rods('The Strand')
  • "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 Noël 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
  • "Inelegantly Wasted In Papa's Penthouse Pad In Belgravia" by The Weekenders
  • "In A Golden Coach" by Billy Cotton
  • "In Gunnersbury Park" by The Hit Parade
  • "In London So Fair" (traditional)
  • "Inner London Violence" by Bad Manners
  • "Innocence" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins (in Angel Passage about William Blake's life in London) [3]
  • "In Old Kent Road" by Arthur Seldon
  • "Initials BB" by Serge Gainsbourg [5]
  • "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 Small Faces (about Little Ilford Park)
  • "It Ain't Necessarily Bird Avenue" by Spanky and Our Gang
  • "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
  • "It's a London Thing" by Mark Williams
  • "It's a London Thing" by S.A.S.
  • "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" by Jack Judge and Harry Williams
  • "It's Lovely To Be Back In London" by Judy Garland
  • "It's Only Me" by Noël 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

J

K

L

M

  • "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")
  • "Magic's Back" (Theme From 'The Ghosts Of Oxford Street')" by Malcolm McLaren
  • "A Maid in Bedlam" {traditional}
  • "Maids of Bond Street" by David Bowie
  • "Maid of Primrose Hill" - traditional (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")
  • "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs" by Brian & Michael (It's about Manchester obviously but London is mentioned)
  • "Maudie Golightly" by Noël Coward ("Though she had a flat in Albemarle Street")
  • "Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner" by Hubert Gregg
  • "Mayfair" by Eric Coates (from London Again Suite)
  • "Mayfair" by Nick Drake
  • "Mayfair" by The Quireboys
  • "Me, Certainly Me" by A.D. River and James Moody ("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 Noël 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 "I've seen a lone Sloane Ranger drive..")
  • "Mi Deh Ina Mi Yard" by Papa Levi
  • "Mile End" by Pulp
  • "Mile End Boulevard" by Position Normal
  • "Milk Bottle Symphony" by Saint Etienne (about Turnpike House tower block, Goswell Road, Islington)
  • "Mill Hill Self Hate Club" by Ed Ball
  • "Millwall" by Millwall FC
  • "Mincing Lane" by Mike Mercado
  • "Mind The Gap" by Alvyn
  • "Mind The Gap" by Lectrolux
  • "Mind The Gap" by The Noisettes
  • "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
  • "Nice Man Jack (Mitre Square)" by John Miles
  • "Modern Art" by Art Brut ("so I'm in the Tate and I'm looking at a Hockney")
  • "Moon Over Archway" by Cath Carroll
  • "Moonhop In London" by Hot Rod All-Stars
  • "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 William Percy French
  • "Move On Now" by Hard-Fi (References Heathrow Airport)
  • "Mr Brown Of London Town" by Reginald Arkell & Noel Gay
  • "Mr Speaker (Gets the Word)" by Madness (about Speaker's Corner; "Making space from Colney Hatch Lane")
  • "Much Too Much" by Les Incompétents
  • "Mudchute Song" by Con Maloney
  • "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 (reopening of Marylebone Gardens in 1763)
  • "Muswell Hillbillies" by The Kinks
  • "My Favourite Wet Wednesday Afternoon" by The Siddeleys
  • "My Gal from London Town" by Fred Godfrey and Billy Williams
  • "My Kitten Went to London" by Kid 606
  • "My London" by Chuck Stevens
  • "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
  • "M1" by Ted Taylor Four (the M1 starts in London)
  • "M4 Movements" by London Groove (the M4 starts in London)
  • "M25" by DJ Choci

N

  • "Nan I Am London" by Wiley
  • "Narcissist" by The Libertines
  • "Neasden" by Willie Rushton
  • "Neasden Melody" by Jungle Jim
  • "Negotiations in Soho Square" by The Tremeloes
  • "Nelson's Column" by Haydn Wood (from London Landmarks Suite)
  • "Never See London Again" by Lincoln
  • "Never Try The Hippodrome" by DJ Phantasy (Hippodrome was a London nightclub in the 1980s)
  • "Next Plane to London" by The Rose Garden
  • "Next September" by Humousexual
  • "New Amsterdam" by Elvis Costello (Rotherhithe)
  • "New Cross Fire" by Roy Rankin and Raymond Naptali
  • "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
  • "Newgate Hornpipe" (traditional folk tune)
  • "The Newgate Wind" by The Bevis Frond
  • "Nice One Cyril" by The Cockerel Chorus ("Tottenham the pride of North London")
  • "Night Bus To Dalston" by Bad Manners
  • "Night Flight To London" by Sol Raye
  • "The Night I Appeared as Macbeth" by William Hargreaves ("They made me a present of Mornington Crescent..")
  • "Night Terror" by Laura Marling ("I woke up on a bench on Shepherds Bush Green")
  • "Night Train To Surbiton" by Norman and the Invaders
  • "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" by Eric Maschwitz and Manning Sherwin sung by Vera Lynn
  • "Nine out of Ten" by Caetano Veloso ("Walk down Portobello Road...")
  • "No.1 With A Bullet" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins (in The Highbury Working)
  • "Non-Stop London" by Johnny Dankworth
  • "North Kensington" by The Lilac Time
  • "North London" by Wiley
  • "North London Boy" by Incognito
  • "North London Trash" by Razorlight
  • "Northsides" by Chester P
  • "No More" by Noël Coward ("No more binges at the Piccadilly; Cafe Royal and Ritz..")
  • "No Place Like London" by Stephen Sondheim
  • "No Respect" by Bad Manners(Soho)
  • "No Town Hall (Southwark) by Crisis
  • "No Trees In Brixton Prison" by Bob Manton
  • "North Weezie" by BMD (A slang term for the area of northwest London in particular the neighbourhoods with the NW10 postal code)
  • "North West Three" by Fatboy Slim
  • "Northern Line" by Jamie T
  • "Northern Line" by LV ft. Joshua Idehen
  • "Northern Line" by No Cars
  • "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 You're Down In London" by Me & Him
  • "NW3" by The Pogues
  • "NW5" by Madness
  • "NW10" by JC Carroll
  • "NyLon Woman" By Holestar

O

  • "The Oak and the Ash (North Country Maid)" (traditional)
  • "Ode in Honour of the London Military Association" by O'Brien
  • "The Official Arsenal March" by Highbury Marchers
  • "Oh! 'Ampstead" by Albert Chevalier and John Crook ("The day you spent at 'Ampstead 'Eath you never will forget")
  • "Oh Baby Won't Come Back Home To Croydon Where Everyone Beedle's And Bo's" by Brian Auger
  • "Oh Camberwell" by Humousexual
  • "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
  • "The Old Lady Of Threadneedle Street" by Carol Ventura
  • "Old Portobello Road" by Babs Nielsen
  • "Old River Thames" by Automatics
  • "Old Smokey" by Linda Lewis
  • "Old Whitehall Number" by Sadie's Expression
  • "Olympia" by Lush
  • "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 Lavender Hill" by The Real Tuesday Weld
  • "On London Bridge" by Jo Stafford
  • "On Primrose Hill" by Suzanne Chawner
  • "On South Street" by Barbara Ruskin
  • "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 Afternoon On) Carnaby Street" by Tapestry
  • "One Better Day" by Madness
  • "One For John Gee" by Jethro Tull (John Gee being manager of London's Marquee Club.)
  • "One Hundred Punks" by Generation X
  • "One Man Band" by Leo Sayer ("Everyone knows you in Ladbroke Grove")
  • "One Night in London" by Dave The Drummer
  • "The Only Living Boy in New Cross" by Carter USM
  • "Open Piccadilly" by Lol Coxhill
  • "Open Wimbledon" by Lance Lumsden and the Calypso Raqueteers
  • "Operation Blade" by Public Domain ("Bass in the place London")
  • "Opium Nights" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins (in The Highbury Working)
  • "Oranges and Lemons" (Bells of St. Clements) (traditional)
  • "An Ordinary Copper" by Jeff Darnell and Jack Warner
  • "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
  • "Over The Flats" by T Rex
  • "Oxford Street" by Everything But The Girl
  • "Oxford Street in the Blackout" by David Heavenor
  • "Oxford Street March" by Eric Coates
  • "Oxford St, W1" by Television Personalities
  • "One Night in Hackney" by Dynamo City

P

Q

  • "Queen of Old Compton Street" by Fruit
  • "Quite Au Fait" by Strake Shenton and Alfred Lee ("I'm called the fav'rite of West-end")

R

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T

U

V

W

Y

See also

References

  1. ^ http://freespace.virgin.net/r.kent/quotes.html
  2. ^ Stokes, Niall (2005). Into The Heart: The Stories Behind Every U2 Song (Third ed.). Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 1-56025-765-2.
  3. ^ a b c d e http://web.archive.org/web/20041124170141/http://www.nthposition.com/angelpassage.php
  4. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20041111090611/http://www.alanmoorefansite.com/bib/highbury.html
  5. ^ The lyric states: "Une nuit que j'tais a me morfondre, dans quelque pub anglais du coeur de Londres"
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