List of songs about London

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).

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• "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
• "Big Black Smoke" by The Kinks
• "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
• "Denmark Street" by The Kinks - about a bedsit in Kentish Town
• "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'm the Face" by The High Numbers
• "I'm Trying to Make LondonMy Home" by Sonny Boy Williams
• "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]
• "Itchycoo Park" by the Small Faces, about Wanstead Flats
• "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 Boys" by Johnny Thunders
• "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
• "Pinball Wizard" by The Who
• "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)
• "The Prettiest Star (Gloucester Road)" by David Bowie
• "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
• "Remote Control" by The Clash
• "The Road To Hell" by Chris Rea (not strictly London, but about the M25 motorway around London)
• "Rossmore Road" by Barry Adamson
• "Satelite" by The Sex Pistols
• "Saturday Gigs" by Mott the Hoople (The Kings Road, The Roundhouse and Croydon!)
• "Saturday Night Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees" by The Leyton Buzzards
• "Seven Sisters Road" by Dan Reed Network
• "Sights And Sounds Of London Town" by Richard Thompson
• "Skeleton Horse" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury [16]
• "Soho Square" by Kirsty Maccoll
• "Sorted For E's And Whizz" by Pulp
• "Sound of the Suburbs" by The Members
• "Southern Belles in London Sing" by The Faint
• "Souvenir of London" by Procol Harum
• "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
• "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits
• "Sunny Goodge Street" by Donovan
• "Sunny South Kensington" by Donovan
• "Sweet Thing" by Van Morrison
• "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