List of songs about London

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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).

Contents 1 # 2 A 3 B 4 C 5 D 6 E 7 F 8 G 9 H 10 I 11 J 12 K 13 L 14 M 15 N 16 O 17 P 18 R 19 S 20 T 21 U 22 V 23 W 24 Y 25 External links

[edit] #

• "22 Grand Job" by The Rakes ("Down to Old Street Thursday night" - Old Street is in EC1)
• "59 Lyndhurst Grove" by Pulp (referring to Lyndhurst Grove on the Camberwell/ Peckham border)

[edit] A

• "'A' Bomb in Wardour Street" by The Jam
• "Absolutely Wrong" by Fred Chester and Tom Clare ('I'm Bertie Bright of Bond Street')
• "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 London Sumting" by Tek 9
• "A Maid In Bedlam" (traditional) - Bedlam was the name for the Bethlem Royal Hospital, London's first psychiatric 'hospital'
• "Anna the Auctioneer" by Noel Coward ('Annabel Devigne had a flat at Golders Green')
• "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" by Eric Maschwitz and Manning Sherwin.
• "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
• "Always New Depths" by Bloc Party 'All the pennies in the Thames will not make it how it was.'
• "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?" by Chas. Collins, E.A. Sheppard and Fred Terry ('I went to the city, well I thought I'd 'ave a spree, the Mayor of London, he was there')
• "Apples" by Ian Dury
• "Archway People" by Saint Etienne title is a reference to the Archway area of London
• "At the chime of a city clock" by Nick Drake

[edit] B

• "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty
• "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
• "Bar Italia" by Pulp
• "The Barrow Boy Song" by Art Noel, Frank Walsh, Joe Burley and Harry Bull
• "Belgravia" by Ikara Colt
• "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" by The Beatles (Bishopsgate)
• "The Belle of Barking Creek" by Paddy Roberts
• "Bertha from Balham" by Noel Coward
• "Big Black Smoke" by The Kinks
• "Billy Bentley" by Kilburn and the High Roads
• "Black Boy Lane" by Babyshambles
• "The Black Grunger of Hounslow" by Kenneth Williams
• "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
• "Burlington Bertie from Bow" by William Hargreaves
• "Bus Driver's Prayer" by Ian Dury (traditional)
• "By The Sea" by Suede

[edit] C

• "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
• "Chloe from Clapham" by Brenda Catherall
• "Cities" by Talking Heads
• "Clark Gable" by The Postal Service
• "The Co-Communists" by Noel Coward ('I'm standing as a member for Newington Butts')
• "Come Back to Camden" by Morrissey
• "Common People" by Pulp
• "Contact London" by Lab 4
• "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...'
• "The Coster's Serenade" by Albert Chevalier and John Crook ('Down at the Welsh 'Arp, which is 'Endon way')
• "The Council Schools Are Good Enough for Me" by Percy Morris and Malcolm Ives ('When I was born they tickled old Bow Bells')
• "Creep" - by The Cannonades
• "Cross Eyed Mary" Jethro Tull
• "Crawling Up A Hill" by John Mayall and covered by Katie Melua in 2003

[edit] D

• "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
• "Deer Park" by The Fall, starts with the line 'I took a walk down West 11'
• "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
• "Districts" by Clifford Grey and A.W. Parry (references Maida Vale, Hammersmith, Battersea etc.)
• "Do the Strand" by Roxy Music
• "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
• "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 to London" by Joe Jackson
• "Downing Street Kindling" by Larrikin Love
• "Down With the Whole Lot" by Noel Coward ('Down with the Garrick Club and Kensington Museum')
• "Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital" by Billy Jenkins
• "Dream" by Dizzee Rascal
• "Driving In My Car" by Mike Barson of Madness ('I drive up to Muswell Hill')
• "Duffer St. George" by The Fiery Furnaces

[edit] E

• "Earlies" by Trashcan Sinatras
• "East End" by Cockney Rejects
• "East End Girl" by Cock Sparrer
• "Eight Miles High" by The Byrds, includes the line 'Rain gray town known for its sound'
• "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
• "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')
• "Experience" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in Angel Passage - Blake's life in London [2]

[edit] F

• "Fair Maid of Islington" (traditional) At the time of the song Islington was a village outside London
• "A Fallen Star" by Albert Chevalier and Alfred H. West ('Thirty years ago I was a fav'rite at the Vic')
• "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
• "Flirting On The Ice" by W.C. Mulaly - skating in Regent's Park
• "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 Tomorrow" by Blur
• "Forget Myself" by Elbow
• "Fourteen Hour Technicolour Dream" by The Syn about Allie Pallie, 1967
• "Funky London Childhood" by Marc Bolan and T Rex
• "Funny" by Harry Talbot ('I often stroll down Oxford Street to pass an hour away')

[edit] G

• "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
• "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
• "Greenwich One Way System" by Billy Jenkins
• "Greetings From Shitsville" by The Wildhearts
• "Grief Came Riding" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• "Guns of Brixton" by The Clash

[edit] H

• "Half A Person" by The Smiths
• "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.
• "He That 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
• "High Street Part Pedestrianised" by Billy Jenkins (from Still Sounds Like Bromley)
• "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
• "Home For a Rest" by Spirit of the West
• "How's Life in London" by London Posse
• "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

[edit] I

• "I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea" by Elvis Costello
• "If It Wasn't For The Houses In Between" by Gus Elen ('With a ladder and some glasses you can see to Hackney Marshes')
• "I Like London In The Rain" by Blossom Dearie
• "I Live In Trafalgar Square" by C.S. Murphy
• "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 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)
• "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')
• "Itchycoo Park" by the Small Faces about Little Ilford Park
• "It Gets Me Talked About" by Albert Chevalier and Alfred H. West ('Playin' 'ind legs of the helephant in East End pantomime')
• "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
• "It's Only Me" by Noel Coward ('Once I knew a kid, she used to live down Poplar way')

[edit] J

• "Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square" by Jethro Tull
• "John Willie, Come On" by George Formby Senior ('We went in Madame Tussaud's waxwork show and it were grand')
• "Just for You London" by Bodysnatch

[edit] K

• "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

[edit] L

• "The Labour Peer" by George Ellis (song writer) ('And now, would you believe, I'm the Earl of Camberwell')
• "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" by Harry Castling and C.W. Murphy
• "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]

• "Limehouse Blues" by Douglas Furber and Philip Braham
• "Lions" by Dire Straits mentions - The Cutty Sark, Tea Clipper in dry dock at Greenwich
• "A Little Bit Of Cucumber" by T.W. Connor ('To the Lord Mayor's Banquet I got in one foggy day')
• "Live from (Da Big Smoke)" by Blak Twang
• "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 Drums by The Spring Offensive
• "London,London" by Caetano Veloso
• "London" by Third Eye Blind
• "London Acid City" by Lochi
• "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 Is Falling Down" (nursery rhyme)
• "London Bridge" by Bread
• "London Bridge" by Fergie
• "London Bridge" by Mindless Self Indulgence
• "London Bridge by Newtrament
• "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 Express" by Oliver Sain
• "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 Interlude" by Lonnie Liston Smith
• "London Is Behind Me" by Justin Hayward
• "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 Nights" by London Boys
• "London Pride" by Noel Coward
• "London" Posse by London Posse
• "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 JDS
• "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 X-Press" by X-Press 2
• "London, You Owe Me This Much" by Plastik
• "London You're a Lady" by The Pogues
• "Londres Strut" by Smells Like Heaven
• "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

[edit] M

• "Mack The Knife" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill (John Willett's translation references the Strand, Embankment and Soho)
• "Maid of Primrose Hill" by Anonymous (18th century)
• "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
• "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 ('I came up to London and walked down the Strand')
• "Mercy I Cry City" by The Incredible String Band - the reference to the "choky tube" make clear its about London
• "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)
• "Musical Address to the Town" by Thomas Lowe (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 Love Went to London" by John Wallowitch
• "My Lucy Liza from Bermondsey" by Medley Barrett
• "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)

[edit] N

• "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]
• "No More" by Noel Coward ('No more binges at the Piccadilly; Cafe Royal and Ritz, goodbye')
• "Northern Line" by Jamie T
• "North Weezie" by BMD (Northweezee) Bashy and co reppin' their endz
• "North West Three" by Fatboy Slim
• "Nothing Can Save Us London" by Starpower
• "Nw10" by JC Carroll

[edit] O

• "The Oak and the Ash" (North Country Maid) (traditional)
• "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')
• "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
• "On Primrose Hill" by Suzanne Chawner
• "On the Day We Went to See the Coronation" by Gwen Lewis (Coronation of Elizabeth II, 1953)
• "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)
• "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
• "Ossie's Dream" by Chas & Dave
• "Oxford Street" by Everything But The Girl
• "Oxford St, W1" by Television Personalities

[edit] P

• "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 Circus" by Pernilla Wahlgren
• "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
• "Polly Perkins of Paddington Green" by Harry Clifton
• "Pop Goes the Weasel" (traditional) "Up and down the City Road/In and out the Eagle"
• "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 Pat Kenny and Mirsad
• "Primrose Hill" (I) by Saint Etienne
• "Primrose Hill" by Peggy Seeger
• "Primrose Hill" by Loudon Wainwright III
• "Primrose Hill" by Madness
• "Primrose Hill" by Beverley Martyn
• "Products" by Sway DaSafo feat. El Rae
• "Pulled Along By Love" by The Mutton Birds - trains on the Northern Line
• "Pump Up London" by Mr Lee

[edit] R

• "Raining in London" by Isaac Hayes
• "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
• "Regent's Park" (I) by Neotropic - Riz Maslen
• "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')
• "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)
• "A Room in Bloomsbury" by Sandy Wilson
• "Rossmore Road" by Barry Andrews
• "Round the Marble Arch" by Ralph Butler and Noel Gay
• "Ruby Soho" by Rancid

[edit] S

• "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]
• "Slaughter at Primrose Hill" (I) by Frank Popp
• "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
• "South of the River" by Mica Paris
• "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
• "Stardom In Acton" by Pete Townshend
• "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
• "Streets of Whitechapel" by JC Carroll
• "Strolling Down The Strand" by Fred Godfrey and Leslie Sarony
• "Suicide On Downing Street" by Tim Finn
• "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits
• "Sunny Goodge Street" by Donovan
• "Sunny South Kensington" by Donovan
• "Suzy" by Benny Hill ('Now I wandered down into Soho')
• "The Sweet Salutation on Primrose Hill" by Anonymous (17th century)
• "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

[edit] T

• "Taking After Dear Old Dad" by Noel Coward ('Later on I meet a pal and stroll with him along the Mall')
• "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
• "Terrible Accident on the Ice in Regent's Park" by Anonymous (19th century)
• "That'll Be Very Useful Later On" by Noel Coward ('Mary had them watched from Charing Cross to Golders Green')
• "The Boy Looked At Johnny" by The Libertines
• "The Tears Shed in London Tonight" by R.P. Weston and Bert Lee
• "The Theatre" by Pet Shop Boys
• "They're Changing Guards at Buckingham Palace" by A. A.Milne
• "This Is London" by Don McGlashan
• "This Is London" by Akala
• "Three White Feathers" by Noel Coward (Ealing girl makes good)
• "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

[edit] U

• "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 which occurs on the Cally Road (Caledonian Road Islington N1) and the Vallance Road (Bethnal Green E2)
• "Up The Junction" by Squeeze

[edit] V

• "Victoria Gardens" by Madness

[edit] W

• "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 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')
• "White City" by The Pogues
• "White City Fighting" by Pete Townshend
• "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais" by The Clash
• "White Riot" by The Clash
• "Wild Women" by Benny Hill ('Now I was in a Chelsea bar one day')
• "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')
• "Who Are You" by The Who
• "Why London" by Eskobar
• "Why Can't We Have The Sea In London?" by Fred Godfrey and Billy Williams
• "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

[edit] Y

• "Yachting in Regent's Park" by Thomas Case Sterndale Bennett
• "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

[edit] External links

• Readers recommend: songs about London, The Guardian, July 7, 2006

This is an incomplete list of songs, which can or may never satisfy any objective standard for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome.