List of songs about London

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This is a list of songs about London by notable artists. 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 (or parts of London) are simply name-checked (e.g. "New York, London, Paris, Munich"; lyrics of "Pop Muzik" by M).

Contents:

* Top
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

This is a dynamic list of songs and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

## 0–9

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* "7Teen" by The Regents
* "12 Hours In Brixton" by Lisa Lashes
* "12 Strings on Carnaby Street" by Steve Morse
* "13 Chester Street" by The Pretty Things[1]
* "13 Dead" by Benjamin Zephaniah (about the 1981 New Cross fire)
* "13 Dead (Nothing Said)" by Johnny Osbourne (about the 1981 New Cross fire)
* "15 Minutes of Fame" by Sheep on Drugs
* "18 Whitcomb Street" by Ian Whitcomb (Soho)
* "186 Goldhawk Road" by Morwell Unlimited
* "1617 Broadway" (from Mr. Wonderful)
* "1940 London" by Solitaire
* "1st Transmission" by Earthling
* "2007 FPS A London Conversation" by The Clarke & Ware Experiment
* "22 Acacia Avenue" by Iron Maiden
* "22 Grand Job" by The Rakes[2]
* "24 Minutes from Tulse Hill" by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
* "The 253" by Chris T-T
* "29 Church Street" by Les Humphries Singers (Croydon)
* "3AM Eternal" by The KLF (original "Pure Trance" version)
* "30 Minutes in London" by Antoine Dufour
* "368" by Jamie T
* "The 4 Marys Go Go Dance All Night at the Groovy Cellar" by Captain Sensible
* "4AM in Leicester Square" by Jaguar
* "4.50 From Paddington" by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley
* "5.52 From Victorloo (London Transport Suite)" by Melodi Light Orchestra Conducted By Ole Jensen (alias of Robert Farnon)
* "5 6 7 8" by Shut Up and Dance (Hackney, Stoke Newington)
* "59 Lyndhurst Grove" by Pulp (Peckham)
* "6 Horsemen (The Brixtons)" by Sleaford Mods
* "62 Brougham Road (Parts One And Two)" by The Apostles (Hackney)
* "7.10 from Suburbia" by Jackie Trent[2]
* "71–75 New Oxford Street" by Mr. Bloe
* "85 Westbourne Terrace" [I] by Goldie & the Gingerbreads
* "853-5937" by Squeeze

## A

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* "'A' Bomb in Wardour Street" by The Jam
* "A Child of the Jago" by Kaiser Chiefs (named after the novel)
* "A Cockney Christmas" by Dick Emery
* "A Day in the Life" by The Beatles ("now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall" from Sgt. Pepper, 1967)
* "A Day on the Town" by Madness
* "A Foggy Day" by Lyn Collins (The Female Preacher)
* "A Foggy Day in London Town" by George and Ira Gershwin
* "A Happening London Town" by Buck Owens
* "A Holloway Person" by The Cleaners from Venus
* "A Limpet In Marshalsea" by Tim Hodgkinson
* "A London, Allons Donc" by Petula Clark
* "A Maiden Came From London Town" by Dave And Toni Arthur
* "A Mayfair Suite" by Harry Roy
* "A Merry Progress to London" by Ewan MacColl
* "A Moment On Hungerford Bridge" by Robb Johnson
* "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" by Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin and Jack Strachey
* "A Room in Bloomsbury" by Twiggy and Christopher Gable (from the musical The Boyfriend)
* "A Thick, Thick Fog In London" by Jack Payne (bandleader)
* "A Transport of Delight" by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, about a London bus
* "Abhainn an t-Sluaigh" by Runrig (The Crowded River)
* "A13" by Jah Wobble
* "A13 Trunk Road to the Sea" by Billy Bragg (Wapping, Barking, Dagenham)
* "A405" by Andy Lewis
* "Abbey Road" by Tori Amos, about the eponymous road.
* "Absolument Hyde Park" by Johnny Hallyday & The Blackburds
* "Absolutely Wrong" by Fred Chester and Tom Clare ("I'm Bertie Bright of Bond Street")
* "Acid Meets Dub in Crystal Palace" by Mad Professor
* "'Ackney Road" by Marie Lloyd, about the eponymous road.
* "Acre Lane" by The Thirst (Brixton)
* "Across the River Thames" by Elton John[2]
* "Acton Town" by Robb Johnson
* "Acton Zulus" by Carbon/Silicon
* "Addington Shuffle" by The Drug Addix
* "Africa" by Madness (Holloway)
* "African Headcharge in the Hackney Empire" by Lee "Scratch" Perry
* "Aftermath" by R.E.M.
* "Ain't Gonna Take It" by Tom Robinson Band (Brixton)
* "Alaska Street" by Red Snapper
* "Albert and the 'Eadsman" by Marriott Edgar
* "Albert Bridge" by The Monochrome Set
* "Albion" by Babyshambles (Deptford, Catford)
* "Alicia Quays" by Jamie T
* "All Change for the Bakerloo Line" by The Pyramids and Mood Reaction
* "All Down Piccadilly" from The Arcadians (musical)
* "All Over Now" by The Cranberries
* "All Quiet on the Western Avenue" by Johnny G
* "All Roads Lead To Bow Bells" by Henry Sullivan and Desmond Carter
* "All the Umbrellas in London" by The Magnetic Fields
* "All The Way Home" by Tom Paxton
* "All the Way to Holloway" by The Priscillas
* "All the Way to Richmond" by Ed Welch
* "All the Girls Love Alice" by Elton John (line "And who could you call your friends down in Soho?")
* "All Saints Road" by Black Stalin
* "All Souls Avenue" by The Cult
* "Alperton Head Charge" by Loop Guru
* "Always New Depths" by Bloc Party ("All the pennies in the Thames..")
* "The Amazing London Town" (from The Rothschilds)
* "American Boy" by Estelle[2]
* "The 'Ampstead Way" (from London Town)
* "Anarchy in Hackney" by Robb Johnson
* "And Don't The Kids Just Love It" by Television Personalities (Carnaby Street)
* "And God Created Brixton" by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
* "An Arcade From The Warm Rain That Falls" by Comet Gain (Finsbury Park)
* "An Empty River" by Billy Jenkins
* "Ange's Song After She Crawled Through London" by Jon Langford & Kathy Acker
* "Angel" by My Life Story (set in and around Angel tube station)
* "The Angel, Highbury" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins (in The Highbury Working)
* "Angel Square" by Would-be-goods
* "Angels Over Kilburn" by Hope of the States
* "Animals Are Vanishing (Martian Invasion 1853)" by Silvery ("Westbourne, Effra, the Tyburn and Fleet Sewers...")
* "Another Camden Afternoon" by The Stranglers
* "Another Day Another Dollar" by Everything But The Girl
* "Another Lonely Night in Old London Town" by Lloyd Lovindeer
* "Ann Boleyn" by R. P. Weston and Bert Lee ("The bloody Tower")
* "Anna the Auctioneer" by Noël Coward
* "Any Old Iron" by Harry Champion
* "Anybody Seen My Trial?" by Beggar & Co. ("... from a board in London Town.")
* "Apples" by Ian Dury
* "'Appy in 'Ampstead" by Albert Ketelbey
* "April In Kings Cross" by The Tyrrel Corporation
* "April Shower at Kew – an Impression" by Haydn Wood
* "Arabs In 'Arrods" by Art Attacks
* "Archer Street Drag" by George Chisholm
* "Archway People" by Saint Etienne
* "Archway Towers" by New Model Army
* "Argyle Square" by Orphans & Vandals
* "Arlington Road" by Gallon Drunk
* "Arrows of Eros" by Golden Silvers
* "The Arsenal" by Blak Twang
* "The Artillery Man and the Fighting Machine" from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
* "Artillery Row" by The Bevis Frond
* "As Dawn Breaks Over London" by Jah Wobble
* "As Real As Disneyland" by Julian Dawson
* "As The Sun Sets Over London" by Jools Holland
* "Asbestos Lead Asbestos" by World Domination Enterprises (White City)
* "Assignment London" by London Studio Group (featuring Basil Kirchin)
* "Asthma Attack" by CocknBullKid
* "At Bertram's Hotel" by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley
* "At Ronnie's" by Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band (title references Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London)
* "At the Chime of a City Clock" by Nick Drake ("Ride the range of a London street..")
* "At the House of the Clerkenwell Kid" by The Real Tuesday Weld
* "At the Palais de Dance" by Albert Ketelbey (from A Cockney Suite)
* "At The Scene" by Dave Clark Five
* "At The Tree I Shall Suffer" by John Gay (from The Beggar's Opera – the "tree" is the Tyburn Tree gallows)
* "Autobiography Of A Crackhead" by Shut Up And Dance (the Green Man pub was in East London)
* "Autumn in London" by Tony Osborne
* "Autumn in London Town" by Norrie Paramor and his Orchestra
* "Autumngirlsoup" by Kirsty MacColl ("flying over London../crying over London..")

## B

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* "Back in the Old Country" by Tom Robinson (Earls Court)
* "Back to Brixton" by Hijack
* "Back To London Town" by Milton Ager, Augustus Barratt, Helen Trix and John Murray Anderson
* "Back To Mystery City" by Hanoi Rocks ("Mystery City" was a London club)
* "BAD" by Big Audio Dynamite
* "Bad Day in Bow Creek" by Fad Gadget
* "The Bad Photographer" by Saint Etienne (Ladbroke Grove)
* "Bad Servant" by Gallon Drunk
* "Bad Young Brother" by Derek B
* "Bag of Dust" by The Cleaners from Venus (Liverpool Street)
* "Bakerloo" by King of Woolworths
* "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty[2]
* "Baker Street Muse" by Jethro Tull
* "Baker Street Mystery" by Kai Winding
* "Bakerloo Blues" by Geraldo
* "Bakerloo Non-Stop" by Kenny Baker
* "Bakerloo Symphony" by Mauro Picotto
* "Baker's Treat" by Elton Dean
* "The Ball at Whitehall" from Nell Gwynne (operetta)
* "Ballad of Bethnal Green" by Paddy Roberts
* "Ballad of Brick Lane" by Serafina Steer
* "The Ballad of Climie Fisher" by Half Man Half Biscuit
* "Ballad of London" by Alasdair Clayre
* "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" by Stephen Sondheim
* "The Ballad of the Warrington" by The Yobs ("The Warrington" is a pub in Maida Vale)
* "Ballad of the Woggler's Mooly" by Kenneth Williams ("But the Bow Street Runners caught him, and the judge said 'He will swing'")
* "Bands From London Are Shit" by MJ Hibbett
* "The Bandstand, Hyde Park" by Haydn Wood
* "Banned From The Roxy" by Crass
* "Bank Holiday ('Appy 'Ampstead)" by Albert Ketèlbey
* "Bar Italia" by Pulp[2]
* "Barking Park Lake" by Riff Raff
* "Barmy London Army" by Charley Harper
* "Barnes Bridge" by Harold McNair
* "Bartholomew Fair" by Vivian Ellis
* "Basement Kiss" by Elvis Costello (North End Road; Belgravia)
* "Basing Street" by Nick Lowe
* "Basing Street Leslie" by Arrows
* "Bat Out of Surbiton" by Wat Tyler
* "Bathing In The Serpentine" (from The Bing Girls Are There – a follow-up to The Bing Boys Are Here)
* "Bathtime in Clerkenwell" by The Real Tuesday Weld
* "Battersea" by Jimi Jamison
* "Battersea Bardot" by Pearlfishers
* "Battersea Bardot" by Cock Sparrer
* "Battersea Bedsitter Blues" by Peter Lundblad
* "Battersea Boys" by Chris Difford
* "Battersea Bridge Baptism" by Chris T-T
* "Battersea Moon" by Eddi Reader
* "Battersea Odyssey" by Super Furry Animals
* "Battersea Power Station" by Junior's Eyes
* "Battersea Rain Dance" by Chris Barber and his Jazzband
* "Battersea Rise" by Andy Mackay
* "The Battle of All Saints Road" by Big Audio Dynamite (a street in Ladbroke Grove)
* "The Battle of Epping Forest" by Genesis[2]
* "Battlefield W1" by The Adicts
* "The Bay of Battersea" by George Grossmith
* "BD7" by New Model Army ("West End")
* "Beat Dis" by Bomb the Bass (some mixes)
* "Beatles Zebra Crossing?" by Shriekback
* "Beautiful Bermondsey" by Dick Emery
* "Beckton Dumps" by Humble Pie (Eat It album)
* "Bedsit City" by The Parkinsons
* "Beefeaters" by Johnny Dankworth
* "Belmont Street" by The Del-Tones
* "Behind Closed Doors of the House of Commons" by Dennis Bovell
* "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" by The Beatles (Bishopsgate) from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967
* "Belgravia" by Ikara Colt
* "Belgravia" by Manfred Mann
* "The Belle of Barking Creek" by Paddy Roberts
* "Belle Of Chalk Farm" (from Hello Cheeky)
* "Bells Of Brixton" by Friends, Lovers & Family
* "Belmarsh" by The Business
* "Belsize Blues" by Al Stewart
* "Bench Number 3, Waterloo Station" by Claude François
* "Berkeley Mews" by The Kinks
* "Berkeley Square and Kew" (from the musical Primrose)
* "Burlington Bertie (Tramp)" by Herbie Flowers
* "Bermondsey" by Nadia Cattouse
* "Bermondsey" by Sid James (in Three Hats for Lisa)
* "Bertha from Balham" by Noël Coward
* "Berwick Street Bounce" by Diz Disley & The Soho String Quintette
* "Best Days" by Blur
* "Bethnal Green Tube Disaster" by Fad Gadget
* "Better Not Look Down" by B.B. King
* "Between the Dilly And Blue Gate Fields (City) by Jools Holland
* "Beyond The Legend of the Battersea Asparagus Triangle" by The Orb
* "Biba's Basement" by Thrashing Doves
* "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize" by Engelbert Humperdinck
* "Big Beat In London" by T La Rock
* "Big Ben" by Area-7
* "Big Ben" by Bill Shepherd (arranger for the Bee Gees)
* "Big Ben" by Denny Laine
* "Big Ben" by Frank Weir
* "Big Ben" by Roddy Frame
* "Big Ben Blues" by David Owen Norris
* "Big Ben Blues" by Ray Martin
* "Big Ben Boogie" by Winifred Atwell
* "Big Ben Dub" by Mad Professor & Scientist
* "Big Ben Gone Wrong" by Mad Professor
* "Big Black Smoke" by The Kinks
* "Big Jump at Picket's Lock" by Eddie Kidd
* "Big Punk" by Judge Dread
* "Billy Bentley" by Kilburn and the High Roads (Archway, Kilburn, Dalston, Clapham, Ealing, Covent Garden, etc.)
* "Bingo" by Madness
* "Birdcage Walk" by Arnold Steck
* "Birdcage Walk" by Martha and the Muffins
* "Birdcage Walk (Doing The)" by Jools Holland
* "Birdman of EC1" by Saint Etienne
* "Birds" by Kate Nash
* "Bish Bash Bosh" by The Cleaners from Venus (Liverpool Street)
* "The Bishop Went Down To Fulham" by Paul Brett
* "Bishops Gate" by Towers of London
* "Bitter Fingers" by Elton John (about the Denmark Street music publishing trade)
* "Black Angel" by Tom Robinson Band (Brixton, Clapham)
* "Black Boy Lane" by Babyshambles
* "Black Camels of Lavender Hill" by Kim Fowley (a street in Clapham)
* "The Black Dog" by Taylor Swift
* "Black Dr. Martens" by The Ignerents (Sloane Square)
* "The Black Grunger of Hounslow" by Kenneth Williams
* "Black London Blues" by Ram John Holder
* "The Black Rats of London" by Bruce Hornsby
* "Blackboard Jumble" by Barron Knights (Chiswick)
* "Blackditch" by Oicho (David Harrow)
* "Blackfriars Bridge" by The Men They Couldn't Hang
* "Blackheath Episode" by Storm Bugs
* "Blackwall Reach" by Saint Etienne
* "Blane Over Camden" by Egg
* "Blessbury Road" by The Fourmyula
* "Blessed" by Simon & Garfunkel[2]
* "Blind Eye" by Hunters & Collectors
* "Blitz Babies" by Bernie Taupin
* "The Blitz in London" by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
* "Bloomsbury Blue" by Simon Nicol
* "Blue Angel" by Gene Pitney
* "Blue Day" by Suggs and Chelsea FC
* "Blue For Waterloo" by Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band
* "Blue Is The Colour" by The Chelsea Football Squad 1972
* "Blue Jeans" by Blur (Portobello Road)
* "Blue Monday" by New Order (Re-ordered mix by Paul Dakeyne)
* "Blue Piccadilly" by The Feeling
* "Blue Room in Archway" by The Boo Radleys
* "Bo Street Runner" by The Bo Street Runners
* "Boda en Londres" by Mecano
* "Boileau Road" by Spontaneous Music Ensemble
* "Bollywood to Battersea" by Babyshambles
* "Bombing of London" by The Last
* "Bond Street" by Burt Bacharach
* "Bond Street" by Fats Waller (from The London Suite)
* "Bond Street Catalogues" by Andy Bell (singer)
* "Bond Street Doodle" by Roberto Delgado (alternative name for Horst Wende)
* "The Bond Street Dress Parade" by Clifford Grey (from The Bing Girls Are There – a follow-up to The Bing Boys Are Here)
* "Bond Street Parade" by John Schroeder
* "Bond Street PM" by Mood Mosaic
* "Born Slippy" by Underworld[2]
* "Born to Be a Dancer" by Kaiser Chiefs
* "Bow Bells" by Donald Peers
* "Bow Bells" by Firebird
* "Bow Bells" by Larry Fotine
* "Bow E3" by Wiley[2]
* "The Boy in the Paisley Shirt" by Television Personalities
* "The Boy Looked at Johnny" by The Libertines
* "Boy Meets Girl So What" by McCarthy
* "Boy Racers RM1" by The Wolfhounds
* "The Boys From Highbury" by Arsenal F.C.
* "Breakfast in Mayfair" by Fairport Convention
* "Brent Cross" by 999
* "Brick Lane" by Jools Holland
* "Brickfield Nights" by The Boys
* "Bridge St. Shuffle" by Frank Tovey
* "Bright Lights" by The Special AKA ("I got down to London and what did I see? A thousand policemen all over the street..")
* "Bright Young People" by Noël Coward ("We casually strive to keep London alive from Chelsea to Bloomsbury Square")
* "Bring Back The Routemaster" by Rukaiya Russell
* "Bring On The Funkateers" by Modern Romance
* "British Museum" by Peter Sarstedt
* "British Museum Waltz" by Sydney Carter & Jeremy Taylor
* "Brixton" by Chip Taylor & Jon Langford
* "Brixton" by The Jokers (written by Lloyd Charmers)
* "Brixton" by Rancid
* "Brixton" by Renegade Soundwave
* "Brixton" by The Straps
* "Brixton" by UK Subs
* "Brixton Baby" by DJ Maxi Jazz
* "Brixton Beat" by The Toasters
* "Brixton Blues" by Ram John Holder
* "Brixton Briefcase" by Chase & Status ft. CeeLo Green[2]
* "Brixton Hop" by Derrick Morgan and The Kurass
* "Brixton Hundreds" by The Orb
* "Brixton Leaves" by Duke Special
* "Brixton Nights" by Crazy Pink Revolvers (featuring Stan Stammers)
* "Brixton Possee" by Mikey Dread & Roots Radics
* "Brixton Prison" by King Tubby & Scientist
* "Brixton Rocket" by The Rudies
* "Brixton Serenade" by Lloyd The Matador
* "Brixton Skank" by Trinity
* "Brixton to Harrow" by The Orb
* "Brixton Town" by The Cool Notes
* "Brixton Town Hall" by Dennis Alcapone
* "Brixton Trial & Crosses" by Rod Taylor ft. Prince Hammer
* "Broadcasting House" by George Posford
* "Broadwater Farm" by Junior Delgado
* "Brockwell Park" by Red House Painters
* "Broken Piano" by Frank Turner
* "Bromley Common" by The End
* "Brompton Oratory" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds[1][2]
* "Brook Green Suite" by Gustav Holst
* "Brooklyn To Brixton" by Freq Nasty
* "Broomhouse Road" by The Dash
* "Brother Toby Is A Movie From London" by I-Roy
* "Buck on Fulham Broadway" by Pezband
* "Buckingham Palace" by A. A. Milne (performed by Harold Fraser-Simson among others)
* "Buckingham Palace" by Bill Shepherd (arranger for the Bee Gees)
* "Buckingham Palace" by Canibus
* "Buckingham Palace" by Dillinger
* "Buckingham Palais" by Bobby Crush
* "The Buddha Of Suburbia" by David Bowie
* "Buk-In-Hamm Palace" by Peter Tosh[2]
* "Bullen Street Blues" by Brunning Sunflower Blues Band (featuring Bob Brunning)
* "Bunny Club" by Polly Scattergood
* "Burberry Blue Eyes" by Razorlight
* "Burghley Road" by Writing on the Wall
* "Burning The Boats" by Madness ("The Government have announced that London Bridge is to be sold...")
* "The Burchells of Battersea Rise" by Noël Coward
* "Burlington Arcade" by Rick Wakeman & Adam Wakeman
* "Burlington Bertie from Bow" by Ella Shields
* "Burlington Bertie" by Vesta Tilley
* "Berlington Bertie from Bow" by Ella Shields
* "Burn Down The Kings Road" by Warfare
* "Busdriver" by Kitto (about taking the 73 bus from Euston to Stoke Newington)
* "Bus Driver's Prayer" by Ian Dury[3]
* "Bus Number 13" by Louis Philippe
* "Bus Stop In Fulham" by Robb Johnson
* "Business Girls" by Madeleine Dring
* "The Busy Streets of London" by Nicholas Phipps and Geoffrey Wright
* "Buying Up Bond Street" by Bill Shepherd (arranger for the Bee Gees)
* "By A Piccadilly Cab-Stand" from A Princess of Kensington
* "By Piccadilly Station I Sat Down and Wept" by Tracey Thorn
* "By The Sea" by Suede

## C

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* "C.I.D." by UK Subs
* "Cable St. Blues" by Evans The Death
* "Cafe Royal Waltz" by Ron Goodwin
* "Caledonian Society of London" by Jimmy Shand
* "Calling a Friend" by A Friend in London
* "Camberwell Carrot" by Dub Pistols
* "Camberwell Carrots" by Jehst
* "Camberwell Skies" by Basement Jaxx
* "Camden" by State of Grace
* "Camden Bounce" by Big Jay McNeely
* "Camden Dance Party" by Andy Lewis
* "Camden Road Station" by Andy Roberts
* "The Camden Tandem" by Soft Machine
* "Camden Town" by Matt Finish
* "Camden Town" by Suggs
* "Camden Town Rain" by Mary Lou Lord
* "The Camera Eye" by Rush ("Mist in the streets of Westminster..")
* "Can U Dance (Noise Boys Remix)" By Fast Eddie & Kenny "Jammin" Jason
* "Can You Keep A Secret" by Brother Beyond (Silvertown)
* "A Canadian in Mayfair" by Wally Stott
* "Canary Wharf" by Jools Holland
* "Candy" by Robbie Williams (Brixton)
* "Cane Hill" by Anne Clark
* "Capital Radio" by The Clash
* "Capital Radio Rock" by Sir Coxson Sound
* "Car Trouble" by Adam and the Ants
* "Cardboard Box City" by The Levellers
* "Cardboard City" by B.B. Seaton
* "Cardboard City" by Bob Hall (musician)
* "Cardboard City" by Huw Lloyd-Langton
* "Cardboard City" by Jah Warrior presents Hughie Izachaar
* "Cardboard City" by Mama's Boys
* "Cardboard Town" by The Cleaners from Venus
* "Carnaby Chick" by Don Lusher
* "Carnaby Smooth" by Teenage Filmstars
* "Carnaby Street" by Andy Fisher [de]
* "Carnaby Street" by Bill Shepherd (arranger for the Bee Gees)
* "Carnaby Street" by Booker T. & the M.G.'s
* "Carnaby Street" by Carl Levey (reggae tune featuring The Cimarons)
* "Carnaby Street" by The Jam
* "Carnaby Street" by John Addison
* "Carnaby Street" by Louis Bellson
* "Carnaby Street" by Peggy March
* "Carnaby Street Parade" by Bob Miller and the Millermen
* "Carnival In Brixton" by Hugh Masakela
* "Carry On, London" by Billy Cotton
* "Carry On London" by Edward Woodward
* "Casualty" by Visage (references the Tube)
* "Carrion" by British Sea Power
* "Caxton Hall Swing" by Louis Bellson and his Big Band
* "Cemeteries of London" by Coldplay (from Viva La Vida, 2008)
* "Cenotaph/Letter From Amsterdam" by Chris Rea
* "Centre Court" by Ray Ellington
* "Central London Hatchery" by Orlando Allen
* "Chalice in the Palace" by U-Roy
* "Chalk Farm Special" by Niney & Ken Elliott
* "Chalk Farm to Camberwell Green" by Lionel Monckton
* "The Challenge – SW 19" by Harold Faltermeyer
* "Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)" by Spandau Ballet ("Greek Street. Le Beat Route.")
* "Chaos" by 4 Skins ("..trouble East London..")
* "Chaos Down in Soho" by Sleaford Mods
* "Chapel Market" by Animals That Swim
* "Chapel Street Market 9 am" by The Sabres of Paradise
* "Charing Cross" by Catapilla
* "Charles Windsor" by McCarthy (Trafalgar Square)
* "Charlotte Street" by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
* "Chase Side Shoot-Up" by Brian Bennett (Chase Side is in Enfield)
* "Checking Out Of London" by John Hackett
* "Cheer Up London" by Slaves
* "Chel-Sea Of Blue" by Ron Harris
* "Chelsea" by Fats Waller (from The London Suite)
* "Chelsea" by Mike & Bernie Winters
* "Chelsea at Midnight" by Acker Bilk
* "Chelsea Beat" by The Flying Dutchmen (featuring Pete Moore (composer))
* "Chelsea Blue Beat" by Laurel Aitken & The Shed Enders
* "Chelsea Boot" by The Shadows
* "Chelsea Bridge" by Billy Strayhorn (a jazz standard)
* "Chelsea By Night" by Bill Shepherd (arranger for the Bee Gees)
* "Chelsea China" by Cliff Adams Singers
* "Chelsea Cowgirls" by Duffo
* "Chelsea Dagger" by The Fratellis
* "Chelsea Dawn" by Syd Dale
* "Chelsea Embankment" by Nikki Sudden
* "Chelsea Girl" by Ride
* "Chelsea Girl" by Simple Minds[2]
* "Chelsea Girl (2007)" by The Loves
* "Chelsea Guitar" by Blueboy
* "Chelsea Kids" by Heavy Metal Kids
* "Chelsea Lady" by Harpo
* "Chelsea Love Poem" by Jeremy Taylor
* "Chelsea Lover" by David A. Stewart
* "Chelsea Monday" by Marillion
* "Chelsea Nightclub" by The Members
* "Chelsea Reach" by John Ireland (from Three London Pieces)
* "The Chelsea Reach" by Milton Ager and John Murray Anderson
* "The Chelsea Sky" by Nick Heyward
* "The Chelsea Walk" by Ocean Colour Scene
* "Chelsea Wallpaper" by The Blue Aeroplanes
* "The Children of Waterloo Square" by The Cleaners from Venus (Camberwell)
* "A Child's London – Six Pieces for Piano" by Richard Edward Wilson
* "Chimes of Big Ben" by The Times
* "Chiswick Flyover" by Chick Churchill
* "Chiswick High Road Blues" by If
* "Christmas at Hampton Court" from Rex (musical)
* "Christmas in London" by Julia Fordham
* "Christmas Lights" by Coldplay ("Took my feet to Oxford Street")
* "Christmas Time in London Town" by Nina & Frederik
* "Christopher Robin at Buckingham Palace" by Ann Stephens
* "Circle Line" by Carmel
* "Circle Line Blues" by The Overlanders
* "Circumstances" by Rush
* "Cities" by Talking Heads
* "The City" by Ed Sheeran[2]
* "City of Blinding Lights" by U2[4]
* "City of London" by Douglas Gamley
* "City of London" by The Mekons
* "City on Fire/Final Sequence" by Stephen Sondheim (from the musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street)
* "City Of The Dead" by The Clash
* "Clapham Junction" by Alan Haven & Tony Crombie
* "Clapham Junction" by Norma Tanega
* "Clapham Junction" by Toyah
* "Clapham South" by Gonzalez
* "Clark Gable" by The Postal Service
* "Clash City Rockers" by The Clash
* "Clayhill Dub" by Caustic Window ("Clayhill" is in Kingston)
* "Clerkenwell Polka" by Madness (The Liberty of Norton Folgate)
* "Clerkenwell Sound" by Liquid (musician)
* "Climb The Apples" by Bob Wallis
* "Clock Tower Power" by Billy Jenkins (musician) (about Lewisham Clock Tower)
* "Close To You" by Maxi Priest
* "Clown of London" from Kean (musical)
* "Clubland" by Elvis Costello
* "The Co-Communists" by Noël Coward
* "Cockaigne (in London Town)" by Edward Elgar
* "Cockney" by Sonique (musician)
* "The Cockney Amorist" by John Betjeman
* "Cockney and Yardee" by Dominique And Peter Metro
* "Cockney Bill of London Town" by Harry Champion
* "Cockney Black" by Eddy Grant
* "Cockney Capers" by Julian Vincent & Keith Nichols
* "Cockney Cowboy" by Dennis Waterman
* "Cockney Kids are Innocent" by Sham 69
* "The Cockney Lover (Lambeth Walk)" by Albert Ketèlbey
* "Cockney Mystic" by Robert Coyne & Jaki Liebezeit
* "Cockney Rebel" by Ena Baga
* "The Cockney Rhyming Slang Song" by Chas & Dave
* "Cockney Rhythm" by Rebel MC
* "Cockney Sparrers" by Tony Russell (from the musical The Matchgirls)
* "Cockney Sparrow" by Syd Dale
* "Cockney Translation" by Smiley Culture[2]
* "Cockneytouch" by Magnetic (David Harrow)
* "A Cockney's Life For Me" by George Grossmith
* "Cold Kilburn Rain" by Nick Saloman Mary Lou Lord
* "Cold Harbour Lane" by Matthew Fisher
* "Cold Old London" by Rod Stewart
* "Coldharbour Lane" by The Quireboys
* "Coldharbour Lane" by Tom Robinson
* "Columbia" by Oasis (about the Columbia hotel in London) from Definitely Maybe 1994
* "Come Again" by Truman & Wolff featuring Steel Horses
* "Come Back, Be Here" by Taylor Swift
* "Come Back To Camden" by Morrissey
* "Come Back To Croydon" by Brian Auger
* "Come On" by New Power Generation
* "Come on And Get Some" by Cookie Crew
* "Come Round London" (from The Bing Boys Are Here)
* "Coming From London" by Richie Rich (the British producer not the American rappers)
* "Coming To America" by The System ("Hyde Park")
* "Common People" by Pulp[1]
* "Conspiracy" by State of Grace
* "Contact London" by Lab 4
* "Constitution Hill" by Billy Bragg
* "Conversation Off Floral Street" by The Zombies
* "Cooks Ferry Parade" by Freddy Randall
* "Cooksferry Queen" by Richard Thompson
* "Cool For Cats" by Squeeze (Heathrow,Wandsworth (prison), etc.)
* "Cool Runnings Inna W11 Area" by Aswad
* "The Corner Of Wimpole Street" (from Robert and Elizabeth)
* "Corsham Street" by Howard Skempton
* "The Coster Girl in Paris" by Marie Lloyd (Hackney Road etc.)
* "The Coster's Serenade" by Albert Chevalier and John Crook ("Down at the Welsh 'Arp, which is 'Endon way")
* "Cosy Cafe" by Saint Etienne (about a café in Lee Valley, East London)
* "Cotton Comes To Harlesden" by Joseph Cotton, Massive Horns & The A Class Crew
* "The Council Schools Are Good Enough for Me" by Percy Morris and Malcolm Ives
* "Covent Garden" by Eric Coates (from London Suite)
* "Covent Garden" by Leslie Bricusse (from Three Hats for Lisa)
* "Covent Garden Starts Early" by Johnny Scott
* "Crane River Woman" by Crane River Jazz Band (featuring Ken Colyer and Monty Sunshine)
* "Cranley Gardens" by Bill Pritchard
* "Cranley Gardens" by I Start Counting
* "Craven Park Dub" by The Revolutionaries
* "Crawling up a Hill" by John Mayall
* "The Cricket Champions (West Indies v. M.C.C. 1954)" by Lord Beginner
* "Cricklewood"/"The Cricklewood Shakedown" by The Goodies
* "Cricklewood" by Johnny McEvoy
* "Cricklewood" by Snuff
* "Cries of London" by Luciano Berio
* "Cripplegate" by Johnny Parker (jazz pianist)
* "Cristal Palace" by Jeane Manson
* "Cromer Aroma" by Phil Daniels + the Cross (about Cromer Street, King's Cross)
* "The Crooked Beat" by The Clash ("..across the river to South London..")
* "Cross the Line" by Pocketbooks
* "Croydon" by Captain Sensible
* "Cross Eyed Mary" by Jethro Tull
* "Crushed Bones" by Why?[2]
* "Crystal Palace" by The Bible
* "Cunt London" by Sleeper
* "Custer Firkinshaw" by Ross MacManus (Fleet Street)
* "Cutty Sark" by Jonah Jones

## D

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* "Dagenham Dave" by Morrissey
* "Dagenham Dave" by The Stranglers
* "The Dalston Shroud" by Sand
* "Damn Good Show" by Noël Coward ("Everyone in London likes a damn good show")
* "Dancing on Frith Street" by Bill Bruford's Earthworks
* "Dandy on the Circle Line" by The Cleaners from Venus
* "Dans La Prison De Londres" by Louise Forestier
* "Dans Les Rues De Londres" by Mylène Farmer (In The Streets of London)
* "Dark Streets of London" by The Pogues
* "Davy" by Danny Wilson
* "Day by Day" by Generation X (Circle Line)
* "Day on the Town" by Madness
* "Days of Fire" by Nitin Sawhney featuring Natty
* "Dead End Street" by The Kinks (about a bedsit in Kentish Town)
* "The Dead Girls of London" by Frank Zappa
* "Dead London" by Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
* "Dear Old Carnaby Street" by Leslie Crowther
* "Dear Old London Town" A. Baldwin Sloane, John Kendrick Bangs and Roderic C. Penfield
* "Dear Old Shepherds Bush" by Clifford Grey (from the revue The Bing Boys Are Here)
* "Dear River Thames" by Richard Digance
* "Death At The Tower" by John Fox (composer, arranger, conductor)
* "Debris" by The Faces
* "Deceives The Eye" by Madness (West End)
* "Decline and Fall of the Clerkenwell Kid" by The Real Tuesday Weld
* "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" by The Kinks
* "Deep Kick" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
* "Deer Park" by The Fall ("I took a walk down West 11")
* "Delancey Street...The Theme" by Ballistic Brothers
* "Denmark Street" by Cleaners From Venus
* "Denmark Street" by The Kinks
* "Deptford Broadway Boogie" by Jools Holland
* "Deptford Days" by David Knopfler
* "Deptford Market" by Billy Jenkins (musician)
* "Der King Von Soho" by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann
* "Der Willy Von Piccadilly" by Eve Boswell
* "Destination London" by Betty Roe
* "Dettwork Southeast" by Blak Twang[2]
* "The Devil Went Down to Brixton" by Jim Davidson
* "Diamonds in the Dark" by Mystery Jets (includes the line "We would live on Delancey Street", a road in Camden)
* "Diane From Manchester Square" by Tommy Roe
* "Dick Turpin Suite" by Johnny Pearson
* "Dick-a-Dum-Dum (King's Road)" by Jim Dale
* "Dickens of London" by Ron Goodwin and his Concert Orchestra
* "Did You Go Down Lambeth Way?" by Noel Gay
* "Did You See The Crowd in Piccadilly" by George Formby Snr
* "Difficult Fun" by The Slits
* "The Dilly" by Music Machine With Patti Boulaye
* "Dilly Boys" by The Libertines
* "Ding Walls" by Mark Murphy (singer)
* "Dinner at the Ritz" by City Boy
* "Dirtee Cash" by Dizzee Rascal
* "Dirty Girls" by UK Subs
* "Dirty Water" by The Inmates (originally about the River Charles and Boston, USA, this version is about the Thames and London)
* "Discover London City" by Jah Thomas
* "Disgusted E7" by The Wolfhounds
* "District Line" by MC Tali
* "District Line" by Milburn
* "Districts" by Clifford Grey and A. W. Parry (references Maida Vale, Hammersmith, Battersea, etc.)
* "Docklands Blues" by Ed Ball
* "Docklands Renewed" by British Sea Power
* "Dr Jekyll And Hyde Park" by The Mohawks
* "Do The Right Thing" by Redhead Kingpin and the F.B.I.
* "Do The Strand" by Roxy Music
* "Do You Come Here Often?" by The Tornados ("see you down the 'Dilly")
* "Do You Really Like It?" by DJ Pied Piper and the Masters of Ceremonies
* "(Do You Remember) The Saturday Gigs?" by Mott The Hoople
* "Dogs" by The Who (White City dog-track)
* "Doin' Our Own Dang" by Jungle Brothers and Monie Love
* "Dolphin Square" by David Devant & His Spirit Wife
* "Dolly Birds & Spies" by The Cleaners from Venus
* "Doesn't Rain in London" by Isaac Hayes
* "Don't Bring Lulu" by Dorothy Provine
* "Don't Go Back to Dalston" by Razorlight
* "Don't Go To Soho" by Russ Ballard & The Barnet Dogs
* "Don't Let Dem Fool You" by Blak Twang (Harlesden, East Dulwich)
* "Don't Lose Your Heart In London Town" by Kevin Peek
* "Don't Make Fun of the Festival" by Noël Coward (1951 Festival of Britain on the South Bank)
* "Don't Try To Lay No Boogie on the King of Rock And Roll" by Long John Baldry (Wardour Street)
* "Donald Where's Your Troosers?" by Andy Stewart ("I went down to London Town/And I had some fun in the underground")
* "Dopamine Clouds Over Craven Cottage" by Stars of the Lid
* "Dorchester Hotel" by The Sounds
* "The Double Deckers" by The Double Deckers
* "A Dove Flew Down From The Elephant/The Little Boy in the Castle" by The Style Council
* "Down at Our Battersea Boozer" by Monica Rose
* "Down at the Harbour" by Gallon Drunk
* "Down at the Ritz" by Speed Limit
* "Down at the Vortex" by Yellow Dog
* "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 Soho" by Syd Dale
* "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" by The Jam[2]
* "Down on London" by The Wildhearts
* "Down on the Underground" by Alan Hull
* "Down Petticoat Lane" by Richard Digance
* "Down Street" by Steve Hackett
* "Down the Apples 'n' Pears" from Sherlock Holmes: The Musical
* "Down the Lane" by Lionel Bart (about Petticoat Lane)
* "Down to London" by Joe Jackson
* "Down Vauxhall Way" by John Hanson
* "Downing Street Dub" by Peter Hunningale
* "Downing Street Kindling" by Larrikin Love
* "Downing Street Rock" by Dennis Bovell
* "Down With the Whole Darn Lot" by Noël Coward ("Down with the Garrick Club and Kensington Museum")
* "Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital" by Billy Jenkins
* "Dream" by Dizzee Rascal
* "The Drinking Song of the Merchant Bankers" by McCarthy
* "Driving in My Car" by Madness[3]
* "The Drummer And the Cook (Cockney Air)" by Harry Belafonte
* "Drums Over London" by Disco Zombies
* "Du" by Cro (singer)
* "Du Cane Road" by Topper Headon
* "Duchess of Duke Street" by Alexander Faris (Duke Street, Marylebone)
* "Dub Conference In London" by The Simeons (reggae)
* "Duffer St. George" by The Fiery Furnaces
* "Duke of Earlsfield" by Sabres of Paradise
* "The Duke of Seven Dials" by George Grossmith
* "Dumb Waiters" by Psychedelic Furs
* "Dungeon Town" by The Brotherhood
* "Dustman in Chiswick" by Spike Milligan with Jeremy Taylor
* "D'Ya Like Scratchin'" by Malcolm McLaren

## E

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* "E3 Symphony" by Kenny Wellington (of Light of the World (band))
* "Ealing Comedy" by Soft Machine
* "Earl of Kennington" by Portion Control
* "The Earl of Walthamstowe" by The Bevis Frond
* "Earlies" by Trashcan Sinatras
* "Earls Court Blues" by Barry Crocker
* "Earls Court Breakdown" by Alan Tunbridge ft Wizz Jones
* "The Earl's Court Case" by Steve Swindells
* "Earl's Sluice" by Oicho (David Harrow)
* "Earthquake in Westminster" by Ras Tekla & Black Roots (band)
* "East Acton Action" by Alternative TV
* "East End" by Cockney Rejects
* "East End Babylon" by Cockney Rejects
* "East End Ding Dong" by Richard Digance
* "East End Girl" by Cock Sparrer
* "East End Kids" by The Ejected
* "East Sheen" by 'O' Level
* "East Side Struttin'" by Steve Marriott
* "East Stratford Too-Doo" by Mike Westbrook
* "Eastbound Train" by Dire Straits (New Cross Station, Mile End Road, Central line, etc.)
* "'EastEnders' Theme" by Simon May
* "Easy Street, SE17" by Nine Below Zero
* "EC 4" by The Flys
* "Ecstasy (Wherever You May Be)" by Adrenalin M.O.D. (mentions various acid house nights from 1988 nearly all of them in London)
* "E Equals MC2" by Big Audio Dynamite
* "Edgware Station" by Edward Bear
* "Edge of Everything" by Colour Me Wednesday ("The M25 hems us in"; about Uxbridge)
* "Edmonton Green" by Chas & Dave
* "Eel Pie Memories" by Downliners Sect
* "Effra" by Oicho (David Harrow)
* "Eight Miles High" by The Byrds[1][2]
* "El Morocco Tea Rooms" by Ron Goodwin
* "Electric Avenue" by Eddy Grant[2]
* "Electric Avenue" by Renaissance
* "Elegy (Thoughts on Passing the Cenotaph)" by Albert Ketelbey
* "Elephants And Castles" by George Martin
* "Elgin Avenue" by Tom Robinson Band
* "Elgin Mansions" by Rick Wakeman
* "Elm Grove Window" by The Clientele
* "Elm Park Tramp" by Wat Tyler
* "Elvaston Place" by Al Stewart
* "Emit Remmus" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
* "Encore" by Tongue 'n' Cheek
* "The Engine Driver Song" by Television Personalities (Liverpool Street)
* "England" by Jehst ("Trapped in the Capital..")
* "England" by The National
* "England Belongs To Me" by Cock Sparrer (originally London Belongs..)
* "England 2 Colombia 0" by Kirsty MacColl ("in a pub in Belsize Park")
* "England's Glory" by Max Wall and Ian Dury
* "England Swings" by Roger Miller (mentions Westminster Abbey, and Big Ben) 1965
* "Er Wollte Nach London" by Udo Lindenberg
* "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)" by Benny Hill (references Teddington)
* "Escape From Kilburn" by Miranda Sex Garden
* "The Eton Rifles" by The Jam (House of Commons)
* "Europa & The Pirate Twins" by Thomas Dolby
* "European Blueboy" by The Mamas & The Papas (Soho)
* "Euston Station" by Barbara Ruskin
* "Euston Station" by The Oyster Band
* "Evening In London" from Follow That Girl
* "Event#5 (Mortlake Mooch)" by Sphincter Ensemble (featuring John Gustafson (musician)
* "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")
* "Every Loser in London" by Bill Pritchard
* "Everybody Salsa" by Modern Romance ("Now this ain't Puerto Rico, this is London E18")
* "Everything Eventually" by Appleton ('Let's go fly a kite on Primrose Hill')
* "Everything's Changed (Since You've Been To London)" by Kingmaker
* "The Evil Eye" by Joe Jackson ('I got a job in S.E. 15')
* "Ex-Cable Street" by The Wolfhounds
* "Excuse Me" by Wreckless Eric (Wandsworth, Waterloo, Clapham)
* "Exiting Hyde Park Towers" by Paul Smith (rock vocalist) & Peter Brewis
* "Exodus From Bromley" by Billy Jenkins (musician)
* "Eyeless in Holloway" by Johnny Flynn

## F

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* "Faces of London" by Magna Carta
* "Fairytales in Feltham" by Robb Johnson
* "Fait Divers De Londres" by Jeane Manson
* "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead[2]
* "A Fallen Star" by Albert Chevalier and Alfred H. West ("Thirty years ago I was a fav'rite at the Vic")
* "Fallin" by Adam and the Ants ("at The Screen on the Green")
* "Family of Noise" by Adam and The Ants ("in Croydon")
* "Fanlight Fanny" by Clinton Ford
* "Fans" by Kings of Leon
* "Father Christmas Down Hounslow High Street by Robb Johnson
* "Father Thames" by Ivor Novello
* "The Fear And Loathing in Tollington Park Rag" by Caravan (Finsbury Park)
* "The Fear of London" by Kelli Ali
* "Feed the Birds" by Sherman Brothers (from Mary Poppins)
* "Feltham Is Singing Out" by Hard-Fi
* "Festival Hall" by Tito Burns
* "Fifty Two Stations" by Robyn Hitchcock (refers to the Northern line)
* "Finchley Central" by New Vaudeville Band
* "Finchley Girl" by The Drivers (featuring Nick Van Eede)
* "Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be" by Lionel Bart
* "Finsbury Park, Café 67" by Candy Dulfer
* "Fire/Bombing London" by John Murphy
* "Fire of London" by Grace
* "First Day in London" by Denny Laine
* "First Night Back in London" by The Clash
* "Fish Island" by Jimpster
* "Fitzrovia" by Gravenhurst
* "Five Get Over Excited" by The Housemartins ("I am a guy from Camden Town.")
* "Five Nights of Bleeding" by Poet and the Roots ("right up Railton Road..." [Brixton])
* "Flames of Brixton" by Angelic Upstarts
* "Fleet Street" by Fist
* "Fleet Street" by Rico's Combo
* "Fleet Street Cover Up" by Dennis Bovell
* "Fleet Street Lightning" by Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
* "Flightpath Estate" by Sabres of Paradise
* "Fly Away" by 5 Seconds of Summer
* "Fog In London" by Lafayette Leake
* "Fog On The Tyne (Revisited)" by Gazza (Paul Gascoigne) & Lindisfarne (band)
* "Fogg's in Yokohama (Reform Club)/San Francisco: Barbary Coast Saloon" (from Around the World in 80 Days)
* "A Foggy Day in London Town" by George and Ira Gershwin
* "Foggy Old London" by Jimmy Martin
* "The Followers" by Fosca ("On a wet day in Whetstone..")
* "Food For Thought" by Barron Knights (The Angel/Smithfield)
* "The Fool on the Hill" by The Beatles[2]
* "For the Girl" by The Fratellis
* "For Tomorrow" by Blur[2] (Westway, Emperor's Gate, Primrose Hill)
* "Forest Gate Rock" by Lester Sterling
* "Forever Autumn" by Justin Hayward
* "Fortis Green" by Dave Davies
* "Forty Fahsend Fevvers on a Frush" by The Billy Cotton Band
* "Four Aces" by King Tubby, about the club.
* "Four Skinny Indie Kids" by Half Man Half Biscuit
* "Fourteen Hour Technicolour Dream" by The Syn (about Alexandra Palace)
* "Fracas at Drury Lane" from Kean (musical)
* "France" by The Libertines
* "Francis Drake Bowls Club" by Billy Jenkins (this club is in Brockley, SE4)
* "Freedom Come Freedom Go" by The Fortunes
* "Freestyle F64" by Lowkey
* "Friday Hill" by Edwards Hand
* "From Chelsea Green to Brighton Beach" by The Times
* "From London to Chicago" by Wild Bob Burgos (from Matchbox (band)) & The Dreadnoughts
* "From London With Love" by Honey Boy
* "From Marble Arch To Leicester Square" by Peter Greenwell
* "From Meadow to Mayfair"[I] by Eric Coates
* "From Newport To London" by Basia
* "From Sivertown" by Jah Wobble
* "From The City to the Isle of Dogs" by Frank Tovey
* "From The South" by Cookie Crew
* "From Wimbledon With Love" by The Wombles
* "Frumpies Forever" by Frumpies
* "Fulham Blues" by The Call
* "Fulham Court" by The Faith Brothers[5]
* "Fulham Stomp" by Fulham F.C.
* "Fun City" by Alternative TV, about Deptford.
* "Fun in Camden" by The Mental
* "Funky Bayswater" by The Squires
* "Funky Frith Street" by Gonzalez
* "Funky London" by Albert King
* "Funky London" by Houston Person
* "Funky London Childhood" by Marc Bolan and T. Rex
* "Funky Nassau" by The Beginning of the End

## G

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* "Gabrielle" by The Nips
* "Galang" by M.I.A.[2]
* "Gasoline Alley" by Rod Stewart
* "Gates of the West" by The Clash (Camden Town)
* "Gautrey Road Style" by Mad Professor & Jah Shaka
* "The Gay Cavalieros (The Story So Far...)" by Steve Wright
* "Gee Street" by Stereo MCs
* "Generations of Love" by Boy George
* "Gentleman of the Park" by Les Reed (songwriter) & Barry Mason (Belsize Park)
* "Geoffrey Ingram" by Television Personalities
* "Gertcha" by Chas and Dave
* "Get Me to the Church on Time" by Alan Jay Lerner ("London is waking, daylight is breaking")
* "Get Out of London" by Intaferon
* "Get Out of London" by London
* "Get Outta London" by Aztec Camera
* "Ghost in the Strand" by Sting (B-side to Englishman in New York, 1988)
* "The Ghost of Limehouse Cut" by Cathal Coughlan
* "Ghost of Westminster" by TV Smith
* "The Ghosts of Cable Street" by The Men They Couldn't Hang (about the Battle of Cable Street)
* "Ghosts of Ladbroke Grove" by Killing Joke
* "The Ghosts of Oxford Street" by Malcolm McLaren
* "Ghosts of Princes in Towers" by Rich Kids
* "Gilbert Street" by Sweet Thursday
* "Gilbert the Filbert" by Basil Hallam ("...the pride of Piccadilly...")
* "Gina in the Kings Road" by Al Stewart
* "Ginsberg From Scotland Yard" by Belle Baker
* "Girl from London" by Blue Cheer
* "The Girl From London" by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade (from the musical Free As Air)
* "Girl VII" by Saint Etienne (lists numerous London locations)
* "The Girl Who Had Everything" by Television Personalities (The Blitz Club, The Ritz)
* "Give Me A Cockney Song" by Bernie Winters
* "Give Me Back What's Mine" by Gallon Drunk (about the Northern line of the London Underground)
* "Give My Regards to Leicester Square" by Victoria Monks
* "Give Us Back Our Cheap Fares" by Bananarama & Fun Boy Three
* "Glamorous Glue" by Morrissey ("London is dead...")
* "Glasgow Girl" by Rodney Crowell (Camden Town)
* "GLC" by Menace
* "Glory Boys" by Secret Affair
* "Glory Glory Man United" by Manchester United FC ('Wembley' part of the song)
* "Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur" by Chas & Dave ft Tottenham Hotspur
* "The Glory of Kilburn" by Matthew Strachan
* "Gloucester Road" by Special Needs (or The Needs)
* "Go Ahead London" by The Rapino Brothers Versus Trip Ship
* "Go For It" by Coventry City FC
* "Goblin" by Tyler the Creator
* "God (London)" by Simon Le Bon
* "The Godfrey Brothers" by Comet Gain (West Hampstead)
* "Going Back To London" by Don Partridge
* "Going West" by The Members ('The Westway...The Bush' etc.)
* "Golden Square"[I] by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins (in Angel Passage)[6]
* "Golden Walks of London" by The Bevis Frond
* "Goldhawk Road" by Dustin's Bar Mitzvah
* "Good Groove" by Derek B
* "Good Life" by OneRepublic
* "Good Morning Britain" by Aztec Camera ('where the Thames does flow'/'the underground's just a stop away')
* "Good Old Arsenal" by Arsenal FC
* "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" by Queen (from A Day at the Races, 1977)
* "Goodbye London Town" by Sigmund Romberg
* "Goodbye Nashville, Hello Camden Town" by Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers
* "Goodbye Piccadilly" by The Times
* "Goodbye Post Office Tower Goodbye" by Cressida
* "Goodbye Upton Park" by Cockney Rejects
* "Got To Keep On" by Cookie Crew
* "Govt. Dirty Tricks Dept. WC1" by Captain Sensible
* "GPO Tower" by Dudley Moore Trio
* "Grace" by Florence and the Machine (Camberwell)
* "Graftin'" by Dizzee Rascal ("sky looks grey in London city")
* "Grand Union Canal" by Gallon Drunk
* "Grate Fire of London" by Here & Now
* "The Great Fire of London" by Vice Squad
* "The Great London Traffic Warden Massacre" by Morcheeba
* "The Greater London Radio" by Hefner[2]
* "Greatest Cockney Rip-Off" by Cockney Rejects
* "Greek Street" by Bill Pritchard
* "Greek Street, Soho" by John Scott
* "Green Fields" by The Good, the Bad & the Queen
* "Green Line Bus" by Splinter
* "The Green Man" by Shut Up and Dance (duo) (The Green Man was a pub in Dalston, north London)
* "Green Park" by Anthony Adverse
* "Green Park Blues" by Kate St John
* "Green Park Saturday" by The Bevis Frond
* "Green Park Station" by Earth and Fire
* "Green Street Green" by New Vaudeville Band
* "Greenwich Chorus" by Peter Howell
* "Greenwich Fair" by Ian Campbell Folk Group
* "Greenwich Meantime" by Daddy Longlegs
* "Greenwich Meantime" by Graham Bonnet
* "Greenwich One Way System" by Billy Jenkins
* "Greetings from Shitsville" by The Wildhearts[2]
* "Grief Came Riding" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
* "Grigio Di Londra (Good Old London Town)" by Sergio Franchi
* "Groovin' At The Cue" by Dandy Livingstone ('The Cue' was a West Indian nightclub in late 1960s London)
* "Groveley Road" by Saint Etienne
* "Growing Up in Bromley" by Billy Jenkins
* "The Grunwick Affair" by Dennis Bovell[2]
* "Guildhall Fanfare" by Douglas Gamley
* "The Guns of Brixton" by The Clash[2]
* "Guts of London" by Cindytalk

## H

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* "The Hackney Five" by Graham Collier
* "Hackney (Suffer Little Children)" by Creaming Jesus
* "Hainault Via Newbury Park" by Doug Boyle
* "Hairdresser on Fire" by Morrissey (Sloane Square)
* "Half a Person" by The Smiths
* "Half Caste" by Thin Lizzy (Brixton)
* "Half Moon Street" by Count Basie
* "Half Moon Street" by Pete & The Pirates
* "Hammersmith" by The Transmitters
* "Hammersmith Guerilla" by Third World War (band)
* "Hammersmith Odeons" by Patrik Fitzgerald
* "Hammersmith Palais" by Demolition 23
* "Hammersmith Riff" by Vic Lewis
* "Hammersmith To Tokyo And Back" by Art of Noise
* "Hampstead" by Adam and the Ants
* "Hampstead Blues" by Ram John Holder
* "Hampstead Girl" by The Dream Academy
* "Hampstead Heath on an August Bank Holiday Sunday" by Ralph Vaughan Williams (from Symphony No 2 A London Symphony)
* "Hampstead Heath To Lose The Blues" by Ram John Holder
* "Hampstead Incident" by Donovan
* "Hampstead Therapist" by Ed Ball
* "Hampstead Way" by Linda Lewis[2]
* "Hampton Court" by Norma Tanega
* "Hampton Court" by Syd Dale
* "Handel in the Strand" by Percy Grainger
* "Hanging Around" by The Stranglers
* "Happy Families" by Television Personalities
* "Haringey Lullaby" by Juan María Solare
* "Harley Street Special" by Doctor Ross
* "Harrods Don't Sell 'Em" by The Union
* "Harrow Accident" by The Nits
* "Harrow On The Hill" by Steve Harley
* "Harrow Road" by Big Audio Dynamite
* "The Harrow Song (The Giants of Old)" by Robert Hardy (from the play with music 'Winnie')
* "Has It Come to This?" by The Streets[2]
* "Hat-trick" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins (in The Highbury Working)[7]
* "Havan (By Way Of New Orleans & Hackney)" by MFOS (aka Snowboy)
* "Haverstock Hill" from the musical 'His Monkey Wife' by Sandy Wilson
* "Hayes And Harlington Blues" by JSD Band
* "He Ain't Give You None" by Van Morrison
* "He Was A Rasta in London Town" by Wally Badarou
* "Heart O' London" by Robert Farnon (under pseudonym Ole Jensen)
* "Heart of the City" by Nick Lowe
* "Heathrow" by Level 42
* "Heathrow Holiday" by Instant Sunshine
* "Heathrow Jet" by Axel Zwingenberger
* "Heathrow Robinson" by Steve Gray
* "Heathrow Shuffle" by Van Morrison & Georgie Fame
* "Heaven" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins (in Angel Passage – Blake's life in London)[6]
* "Helen Wheels" by Paul McCartney
* "Hell" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins (in Angel Passage – Blake's life in London)[6]
* "Hello London" by Scarling
* "Helpline Operator" by The The
* "He's on the Phone" by Saint Etienne
* "He That The Reason Would Know" by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley ("These three were buried near Marybone [Marylebone] Park" – from A Fair Quarrel, 1614)
* "Herculean" by The Good, the Bad & the Queen[2]
* "Here on the Corner of Wimpole Street" (from the musical Robert and Elizabeth)
* "Here We Are in London Town" by Peter Sarstedt
* "Here We Go" by Everton FC
* "Hersham Boys" by Sham 69 (Hersham is not in London but the words mention it)
* "Hey DJ" by World's Famous Supreme Team
* "Hey Music Lover (William Orbit Mix)" by S'Express
* "Hey Young London" by Bananarama[2]
* "High Street (Ken)" by Jools Holland
* "Highbury Incident (Rainy July Morning)" by Stackridge
* "Highgate" by Affinity
* "Highgate" by Jah Wobble
* "Highgate Hill" by Jakko Jakszyk
* "Highgate Road Incident" by Saint Etienne
* "Highgate Shuffle" by Rod Stewart
* "High Street/Part Pedestrianised" by Billy Jenkins (from Still Sounds Like Bromley)
* "Hilly Fields (1892)" by Nick Nicely (about an area of South London, near Ladywell)
* "Hilly Fields (The Mourning)" by Nick Nicely
* "Hip City" by Poly Styrene
* "History" by The Verve (lyric based on William Blake's "London")
* "History Song" by The Good, the Bad & the Queen
* "Hit Music" by Pet Shop Boys
* "Hobart Paving" by Saint Etienne
* "The Hobnailed Boots That Farver Wore" by Billy Williams
* "Hobb's End" by The Monochrome Set
* "The Holborn Situationist" by Congregation
* "Hold Tight London" by The Chemical Brothers
* "Holiday Rap" by MC Miker G & DJ Sven
* "Holiday In London" by Norrie Paramor
* "Holland Street" by The Field Mice
* "Holland Walk" by National Youth Jazz Orchestra
* "Holloway" by Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band
* "Holloway Boulevard" by The Popes
* "Holloway Girl" by Marillion
* "Holloway Jail" by The Kinks
* "Hollywood (Down on your Luck)" by Thin Lizzy
* "Home For a Rest" by Spirit of the West
* "Homerton B" by Unknown T
* "Hometown" from London Rhapsody by Flanagan & Allen[2]
* "Hometown Glory" by Adele[1]
* "Hong Kong Garden" by Siouxsie and the Banshees[2]
* "Hooky Street" by John Sullivan (Shepherds Bush etc. – Only Fools And Horses theme)
* "Hoover Factory" by Elvis Costello[2]
* "The Horse Guards – Whitehall" by Haydn Wood
* "Horse Guards, Whitehall" by Haydn Wood (from London Landmarks Suite)
* "Hot Shot Tottenham" by Tottenham Hotspur FC
* "Hot Stuff" by The Rolling Stones
* "Hotel in Brixton" by Baxter Dury
* "Hotel Columbia" by Jesse Malin
* "Hounslow Boys" by Robb Johnson
* "House of Bamboo" by Earl Grant Andy Williams (Soho)
* "House on the Hill" by Kevin Coyne (Brixton Square)
* "Howitt Road" by Honest John Plain (Belsize Park)
* "How's Life in London" by London Posse
* "Hoxton Hair" by Parka
* "Hoxton Heroes" by Girls Aloud
* "Hullo! Miss London" by Victoria Monks
* "Hungerford Bridge" by Underworld And Gabriel Yared
* "Hunting for Witches" by Bloc Party (mentions the "30 bus")
* "Hurry On Home To London" by Airbus
* "Hyde Park" by Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
* "Hyde Park" by Funki Porcini
* "Hyde Park 2 am" by Louis Bellson
* "Hyde Park Angels" by Jonathan Kelly
* "Hyde Park Corner Investigation" by Dennis Bovell
* "Hyde Park Song" by Mike Westbrook
* "Hype Talk" by Dizzee Rascal[2]

## I

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* "I Am A Man From Lewisham" by Billy Jenkins (musician)
* "Ici Londres" by Chiara Mastroianni
* "I Dig Everything" by David Bowie ("I feed the lions in Trafalgar Square")
* "I Do The Rock" by Tim Curry (Moscow Road)
* "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" by Elvis Costello
* "I Fell in Love With a Female Plumber From Harlesden NW10" by Splodgenessabounds
* "I giardini di Kensington" by Patty Pravo
* "I.K.B. – R.I.P." by Frank Tovey (Westway, Isle of Dogs, Millwall docks)
* "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 Style in Maida Vale" by The Hammersmith Gorillas
* "I Live in Trafalgar Square" by Clarence Wainwright Murphy
* "I Love Lambeth" by The Monochrome Set
* "I Love London" by Crystal Fighters[2]
* "I Love London" by Lorraine Bowen
* "I Love London" by Tommy Page
* "I Luv U" by Dizzee Rascal
* "I Might Be Lyin'" by Eddie & The Hot Rods ('The Strand')
* "I Was There (At the Coronation)" by Young Tiger[2]
* "I'd Like to go on a London Spree ... Then come with me! ..." from The Spring Chicken
* "I'd Never Know" by Noël Coward ("Why is the Springtime giving London this lovely glow?")
* "Idiot Child" by Madness ("Spunky little kid from North West Five")
* "If I Can't Get to London" by David Craig Simpson
* "If I Could" by David Essex ("Canning Town" etc.)
* "If I Left London" by Christopher Curtis (from Chaplin)
* "If I Ruled The World" by Kurtis Blow
* "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")
* "If London Were Venice" by The Venetians
* "If You're Anxious For To Shine" from Patience (opera) ("If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your mediaeval hand")
* "Il Pleut Sur Londres" by Sylvie Vartan
* "Ill Manors" by Plan B[2]
* "Illegal Gunshot" by Ragga Twins
* "Ilya Kuryakin Looked at Me" from Cleaners from Venus (Wardour Street)
* "I'm a Waterloo House Young Man" from Patience (opera)
* "I'm Alright Jack" by Tom Robinson Band (Hampstead)
* "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" by Cockney Rejects ('West Ham')
* "I'm Goin' To Settle Down Outside Of London Town" by Irving Kaufman (singer)
* "I'm Going to Get Lit Up When the Lights Go Up in London" by Hubert Gregg (end of the WW2 blackout)
* "I'm In London Again" (from Baker Street (musical))
* "I'm Old Fashioned" by Noël Coward and Johnny Mercer ("Those nightingales in Berkeley Square")
* "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[2]
* "I must leave London" by Piano Magic
* "Impressions of London" by Ronald Binge
* "In A Golden Coach" by Billy Cotton
* "In A London Cab (Before The Rain)" by Anastasia
* "In Aallen Kneipen Von Soho" by Caterina Valente
* "In Bedlam" by Creed Taylor Orchestra
* "In Bond Street" by The Young Idea (featuring Tony Cox (record producer))
* "In Brixton" by Matumbi
* "In Der Carnaby Street" by Peggy March
* "In Foggy Old London" by Burl Ives
* "In Gay Mayfair" (from the musical comedy The Belle of Mayfair)
* "In Gunnersbury Park" by The Hit Parade
* "In Iverna Gardens" by The Lilac Time
* "In London" by Iain Matthews
* "In London" by Johnny Logan
* "In London" by Vangelis & Neuronium
* "In Old Kent Road" by Arthur Seldon
* "In Soho Late At Night" by Barb Jungr & Michael Parker
* "In The City" by The Jam[1]
* "In The City" by Madness
* "In The Country" by Skepta
* "In The Streets of London" by The Business
* "Incident At Mudchute" by The Recedents (featuring Mike Cooper (musician))
* "Inelegantly Wasted in Papa's Penthouse Pad in Belgravia" by The Weekenders
* "Inner City Rap" by Ti2bs (Haringey)
* "Inner London Violence" by Bad Manners
* "Innocence" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins (in Angel Passage about William Blake's life in London)[6]
* "Initials BB" by Serge Gainsbourg[8]
* "Inspirations Of London" by Ambros Seelos
* "Interlude – London Massive" by Aphrodite
* "Into Orbit" by Adamski (a reference to the M25 (London Orbital) Acid House scene in 1988/1989)
* "Into The Heart Of Dalston" by Snowpony
* "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
* "The Islington Ballroom" by Richard Digance
* "Itchycoo Park" by Small Faces[2]
* "It Ain't Necessarily Bird Avenue (Byrd Avenue)" by Spanky and Our Gang
* "It Could Be You" by Blur
* "It's Fun Finding Out About London Town" by Billie Anthony
* "It Gets Me Talked About" by Albert Chevalier and Alfred H. West ("Playin' 'ind legs of the helephant in East End pantomime")
* "It's Grim Up North London" by The KLF
* "It's Fun Finding Out About London Town" by Billie Anthony
* "It's a Great Big Shame" by Gus Elen
* "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" by Jack Judge and Harry Williams
* "It's A Long Way To Wembley But Less Than 7 Days To Saturday Afternoon" by Robb Johnson
* "It's Lovely To Be Back in London" by Judy Garland
* "It's Nice to go Trav'ling" by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen
* "It's Only Me" by Noël Coward ("Once I knew a kid, she used to live down Poplar way")
* "I've Brought you Over and set you Down in the Last Edition of London Town..." by Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin (from the musical comedy The New Aladdin)

## J

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* "Jack in London City" by Fiddler's Dram
* "Jack Talking" by Dave Stewart and The Spiritual Cowboys
* "Jack The Ripper" by Screaming Lord Sutch
* "Jacob Street 7 am"[I] by Sabres of Paradise
* "Jacques Derrida" by Scritti Politti (Camden Town)
* "Jag älskar London" by Povel Ramel
* "Jah War" by The Ruts
* "Jam It Jam" by She Rockers
* "Jamming in London" by Master Musicians of Jajouka/Talvin Singh
* "Jarrow Song" by Alan Price
* "Jazz Cafe Theme" by James Taylor Quartet
* "Jazzie's Groove" by Soul II Soul
* "Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square" by Jethro Tull
* "Jennifer, Julie And Josephine" by Television Personalities (Goldsmiths College)
* "Jets Seem Slower in London's Skies" by Martha & The Muffins
* "Jimmy on the Central Line" by John Illsley
* "Joe Meek" by Wreckless Eric
* "Johnny The Horse" by Madness ("To Regent's Park at sunset")
* "Joyful Noise" by Donald Swann
* "John Paul (Is on His Way To Wembley)" by Dermot Morgan
* "John Willie, Come On" by George Formby, Sr. ("We went in Madame Tussauds waxwork show and it were grand")
* "Johnnie Came From London Town For A Bit Of Fun" from A Country Girl
* "Johnnie Reggae" by Big Youth
* "Johnny Come Lately" by Steve Earle (from Copperhead Road)
* "Jubilee Gardens" by Robb Johnson
* "Jubilee Line" by Wilbur Soot (from "Your City Gave Me Asthma" album)
* "Juggle Tings Proper" by Roots Manuva (south-west London, Peckham)
* "Jungle" by Professor Green (Hackney)
* "Jungle West One" by Jimmy Pursey
* "Junkie Doll" by Mark Knopfler (from Sailing to Philadelphia album; he mentions both Turnpike Lane and Turnham Green)
* "Just For Kicks" by Mike Sarne
* "Just For Money" by Paul Hardcastle ("the (Wormwood) Scrubs" etc.)
* "Just Keep Rockin'" by Double Trouble and Rebel MC
* "Justice In Knightsbridge" by Robb Johnson

## K

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* "Kayleigh" by Marillion (Belsize Park)
* "Ken" by Kate Bush (from GLC: The Carnage Continues...)
* "Kensington Cowboy" by East of Eden
* "Kensington Garden" by Marc Jordan
* "Kensington Gardens" by The Shirts
* "Kensington Gardens" by Trembling Blue Stars
* "The Kensington Girl" by The Cleaners from Venus
* "Kensington Palace Confusion" by Dennis Bovell
* "Kent Road Skank" by I-Roy
* "Kentish Town Waltz" by Imelda May featuring Lou Reed
* "Kentish Town" by Tracey Thorn
* "Kenton Kev" by The Magoo Brothers
* "Kew" by Billy Nicholls
* "Kew Gardens" by Ralph McTell
* "Kew Gardens Blues" by Richard Maltby Sr.
* "Kick!" by Adam & The Ants
* "Kick The Geordie / Kick The Cockney" by Hellbastard
* "Kid From Camden Town" from Trottie True
* "The Kid From Kensington" by Dogs D'Amour
* "Kilburn High Road" by Shack
* "Kilburn Lane" by Ranking Dread
* "Kilburn Lane" by Wreckless Eric
* "The Kilburn High Road" by Flogging Molly
* "Kilburn Stroll" by Damien Dempsey
* "The Killers of W1" by Tubby Hayes Orchestra
* "Kingdom Of Fitzrovia" by Jah Wobble and Bill Sharpe
* "King George Street" by Squeeze (King George Street is in Greenwich, South London)
* "The King Is Still In London" by The Happy Gang (featuring Robert Farnon)
* "King of Birds" by R.E.M. (refers to Trafalgar Square)
* "King of London" from Kean (musical)
* "King of Stamford Hill" by Reeves Gabrells, David Bowie and Gary Oldman (refers to Marc Bolan)
* "Kingly Street" by Chris Corcoran Trio
* "King's Cross" by Pet Shop Boys (also covered by Tracey Thorn)
* "King's Cross" by Cinerama
* "King's Cross Blues" by Lindisfarne
* "Kings Cross/Daybreak" by Raw Stylus
* "King's Cross Etc" by The Apostles
* "King's Road" by Heron
* "King's Road" by Tom Petty
* "King's Road Blues" by Quincy Jones
* "King's Road Boogaloo" by Louis Bellson
* "Kings Road Chelsea" by Leslie McKeown
* "King's Road Girl" by Ann Odell (ex-member of Blue Mink)
* "Kinky Reggae" by Bob Marley & The Wailers
* "Klub Londinium 20-30 (League Of The Delirious)" by Sudden Sway
* "Knees Up Mother Brown" by Elsie & Doris Waters
* "A Knife for the Girls" by The Long Blondes
* "Knightsbridge March" by Eric Coates (from London Suite)
* "Knocked 'Em in the Old Kent Rd" by Albert Chevalier
* "Kray Twins" by Mo-dettes
* "Kray Twins" by Renegade Soundwave
* "Kung Fu Battle Ina Brixton" by Prince Fatty & Horseman

## L

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* "La Fille De Londres" by Catherine Sauvage
* "La Seine Et La Tamise" by Petula Clark
* "The Labyrinth of Limehouse" by Marc Almond
* "Ladbroke Groove" by DJ Spinna
* "Ladbroke Grove" by AJ Tracey
* "Ladbroke Grove Blues" by Ram John Holder (1969)
* "Ladies of London Town" by Frank Turner (from Sleep Is for the Week, 2007)
* "Lady Grinning Soul" by David Bowie (London)
* "The Lady is a Tramp" by Buddy Greco
* "Lady Soho" by Carlos Franzetti
* "Lambeth" by Burial
* "The Lambeth Trot" by Wild Willy Barrett
* "The Lambeth Walk" by Noel Gay (from Me and My Girl, 1937)[3]
* "The Lambeth Waltz" by Vera Lynn (1953)
* "Landing in London" by 3 Doors Down ft. Bob Seger
* "The Lass of London City" by Nic Jones
* "Last Flight To Abu Dhabi" by Billy Bragg (mentions Chelsea FC)
* "Last Gang in Town" by The Clash
* "The Last Living Rose" by PJ Harvey
* "Last Night in Soho" by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich
* "Last Round-up In Deptford" by Flying Pickets
* "Last Tango in London" by Mud
* "Last Train to Clapham Junction" by The Business
* "Last Train to Dagenham" by Cock Sparrer
* "Last Train to London" by Electric Light Orchestra
* "Last Train to London" by Mimi Webb
* "Last Train To Trancentral" by The KLF (Trancentral was their studio in Stockwell)
* "Last Words" by The Real Tuesday Weld ("Over Elgin Avenue a helium balloon...")
* "Latchmere" by The Maccabees
* "Latchmere Allotments" by The Orb
* "Late Night London" by Syd Dale
* "Late Train To London" by Darden Smith
* "Latin American Girl In London Town" by Thunderpussy
* "Latin Music" by Kid Creole and the Coconuts
* "The Laughing Gnome" by David Bowie (London School of Economics)
* "Lavender Hill" by Dana Gillespie
* "Lavender Hill" by The Kinks
* "Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon by Queen
* "LDN" by Lily Allen[1][2]
* "Le Blues De Londres" by Dick Annegarn
* "Le Fille De Londres" by Catherine Sauvage
* "Le Piccadilly" by Erik Satie
* "Lea Bridge Stomp" by Freddy Randall
* "Lea Valley Bridge" by Ray Dexter (English country singer)
* "Leapin' In London" by John Dankworth
* "Leave the Capitol" by The Fall
* "Leave The City and Come Home" by The Rakes
* "Leaving London" by Tom Paxton
* "The Leaving of London" by Bevis Frond
* "Lee Navigation" by Saint Etienne
* "Legato Leicester Square" by Betty Roe
* "Leicester Square" by DJ SS
* "Leicester Square" by Rancid (band)
* "Leicester Square Rag" by Harry Roy
* "Lesney Factory" by Saint Etienne
* "Let London Be Nice Again" by Joseph Cotton
* "Let's All Go Down The Strand" by C.W. Murphy and Harry Castling (music hall standard)
* "Let's Dance" by Chris Rea & Bob Mortimer
* "Let's Push Things Forward" by The Streets
* "Let's Submerge" by X Ray Spex ("going down to the Underground")
* "Let's Womble to the Party Tonight" by The Wombles (Wimbledon)
* "Letter 2 London" by Coachwhips
* "Lewisham McDeez" by The Square
* "Leyton Art Inferno" by Saint Etienne
* "The Liberty of Norton Folgate" by Madness[2]
* "The Life Auction: Impressions Of Southall From The Train" by The Strawbs
* "Life Begins at Oxford Circus" by Jack Hylton and His Orchestra
* "Life from a Window" by The Jam
* "Life in London" by Mighty Terror
* "Life in London" by Noel Harrison
* "Life in London" by Pat Travers Band
* "Life Is A Long Song" by Jethro Tull (Baker Street)
* "Life Is True in London Town" by Wallenstein
* "Light at the End of the Tunnel" by Half Man Half Biscuit (about a girl moving to Notting Hill)
* "Light Skin Girl from London" by Lenny Kravitz
* "Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice)" by The Clash (The Westway; Ladbroke Grove; Hounslow)
* "Lights of London" by David Gray
* "Lights Out" by UFO
* "Limehouse" by Fats Waller (from The London Suite)
* "Limehouse Cut" by Jah Wobble
* "Limehouse Nights" by George Gershwin
* "Limehouse Reach" by Ian Wallace (singer)
* "Lions" by Dire Straits (mentions – The Cutty Sark, Tea Clipper in dry dock at Greenwich)
* "Lions of Charing Cross" by Blow Monkeys
* "Little Miss Pipedream" by The Wombats ("cause foggy London town's not built for me or you")
* "Little Miss Portobello" by Kevin Coyne
* "The Little Old Church Near Leicester Square" by Freddy Martin
* "The Little Old Lady Of Threadneedle Street" by Kay Kyser and his Orchestra
* "Little Russell Street" by Nine Below Zero
* "Liv Togevver (The Greater London Funkathon)" by Light of the World
* "Live At London" by Charly Lownoise and Mental Theo (this is not a live record but the name of the tune)
* "Live From (Da Big Smoke)" by Blak Twang
* "Live in Trouble" by The Barron Knights (Walthamstow, Tower Bridge, Catford, etc.)
* "Liverpool Street" by Warm Jets
* "Livin' In Hackney" by Outlaw Posse
* "Living Here In London" by Foster & Allen
* "Living in London" by Brendan Shine
* "Living in London" by Starry Eyed and Laughing
* "Living in London" by Wiley[3]
* "Living in Tottenham" by Frank Chickens
* "Living with Unemployment" by Newtown Neurotics
* "Loftholdingswood" by Microdisney
* "Lola" by The Kinks
* "Londinium" by Archive
* "Londinium" by Catatonia
* "L-O-N-D-O-N" by Screaming Lord Sutch
* "L.O.N.D.O.N." (London) by Leslie Bricusse
* "L.O.N.D.O.N. Town" by Craig McLachlan And Check 1-2
* "Lon Don" by The Passage (band)
* "London" by μ-Ziq
* "London" by AJ and Deno featuring EO
* "London" by Alanis Morissette
* "London" by Alessi
* "London" by Amen Andrews (an alias of Luke Vibert)
* "London" by Barry Manilow[2]
* "London" by Ben Howard
* "London" by Billy Field
* "London" by Bowling for Soup
* "London" by Chava Alberstein
* "London" by Chris Stamey
* "London" by David Axelrod
* "London" by Eddie Floyd
* "London" by Frida Hyvönen
* "London" by Gil Evans
* "London" by Girlschool
* "London" by Gordon Giltrap
* "London" by Harpo
* "London" by International Observer
* "London" by Jeff Lang
* "London" by June Brown
* "London" by The Junkies
* "London" by Maty Noyes
* "London" by SparklehorseNational Youth Jazz Orchestra
* "London" by National Youth Jazz Orchestra
* "London" by Nick Heyward
* "London" by Nicky Thomas
* "London" by Noonday Underground
* "London" by Patrick Wolf
* "London" by Pet Shop Boys
* "London" by Porcupine Tree
* "London" by Queensrÿche
* "London" by Roger Hodgson
* "London" by Roy Reid (aka I-Roy)
* "London" by The Rumble Strips
* "London" by Sandie Shaw
* "London" by Sandy Denny Thea Gilmore
* "London" by The Smiths[2]
* "London" by Smoke City
* "London" by Sparklehorse
* "London" by Steeleye Span
* "London" by Tangerine Dream (Tyger)
* "London" by Thea Gilmore
* "London" by They Might Be Giants
* "London" by Third Eye Blind
* "London" by Timati and Grigory Leps
* "London" by Tina Dico
* "London" by Vanessa Carlton
* "London Aquarium" by Chris T-T
* "London A Rose" by Arthur Louis
* "London A to Z" by Deacon Blue
* "London A Weh Live" by Penfold, Fathead (musician) & Tenor Fly
* "London After Midnight" by The Flaming Stars
* "London Again Suite – Oxford Street, Langham Place, Mayfair"[I] by Eric Coates
* "London Air" by Elvin Jones
* "London Airport" by Raymond Scott
* "London at Night" by Noël Coward
* "London Babu" by Priya Himesh
* "London Beach" by TV Smith
* "The London Beau" by Elton Hayes
* "London Beckoned Songs About Money Written by Machines" by Panic! at the Disco
* "London Belongs To Me" by Max Miller (comedian)
* "London Belongs To Me" by Saint Etienne[1][2]
* "London Berry Blues" by Chuck Berry
* "London Between the Fires" by Soho
* "London Blue" by David Lanz
* "London Blues" by Canned Heat
* "London Blues" by Jelly Roll Morton
* "London Blues" by Rosie (featured David Lasley)
* "London Bitch" by 50 Cent
* "London Bombs" by Eskimo Joe
* "London Born" by King Prawn
* "London Bouncers" by Action Pact!
* "London Boy" by Donae'o
* "London Boy" by Taylor Swift
* "London Boys" by Anti Nowhere League
* "The London Boys" by David Bowie[1]
* "The London Boys" by Tommy Bruce
* "London Boys" by T. Rex[1][2]
* "London Boys" by Johnny Thunders
* "London Boys" by The Times
* "London Boys" by The Go-Go's
* "London Bridge" by Big Audio Dynamite
* "London Bridge" by Bread
* "London Bridge" by Cilla Black
* "London Bridge" by Dogs
* "London Bridge" by Ed Sheeran ft Yelawolf (from The Slumdon Bridge 2012)
* "London Bridge" by Fergie
* "London Bridge" by Frederic Weatherly
* "London Bridge" by Jakko Jakszyk
* "London Bridge" by Joe Gibbs
* "London Bridge" by Mighty Sparrow
* "London Bridge (London Bridge is Broken Down)" by Mike Westbrook
* "London Bridge Has Fallen" by Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus
* "London Bridge is Falling Down" – composer unknown (nursery rhyme)
* "London Bridge is Falling Down" by Kirsty MacColl
* "London Bridge Special" by King Tubby Meets Roots Radics
* "London Bridges" by Vince DiCola
* "London Burning" by Enos McLeod
* "London's Burning" by Clash
* "London By Bus" by Lionel Bart
* "London By Night" by Carroll Coates (recorded by Frank Sinatra)
* "London Bye Ta-Ta" by David Bowie[2]
* "London Cafe Blues" by King Oliver
* "London Calling" by Eric Coates
* "London Calling" by The Clash[9][2]
* "London Calling" by The Lambrettas
* "London Calls" by Billy Cotton
* "London, Can You Wait" by Gene
* "London Chimes" by Paul Hardcastle
* "London City" by Back to the Planet
* "London City" by Devlin
* "London City" by Freedom
* "London City" by Jah Thomas
* "London City" by Otto Sieben (pseudonym of Gerhard Narholz)
* "London City Rock" by U-Roy
* "London Cold" by Yellowman
* "London Conversation" by John Martyn
* "London Crawlng" by Rialto
* "London Danny" by Jez Lowe
* "London Derriere" by Manny Albam
* "London Derriere" by Quincy Jones
* "London Deserted" by John Murphy
* "London-Donnie" by Don Byas
* "London Drunk" by Swingin' Utters
* "London Dub" by Ruts DC
* "London Dungeon" by The Misfits[2]
* "London Dungeons" by Congo Natty (aka Rebel MC)
* "London England" by Corduroy
* "London Eye" by Regular Fries
* "The London Eye" by Robb Johnson
* "London Fair" by Ole Jensen aka Robert Farnon
* "London Fantasia" by Alberto Semprini
* "London Fantasy" by Nolwenn Leroy
* "London Fields" by Chris Connelly
* "London Fields" by Energy Orchard
* "London Fields" by Sleeping States
* "London Fog" by Oliver Nelson Orchestra
* "London For Christmas" by Limahl
* "London Gangs" by Sault
* "London Gay" by The Mighty Duke
* "A London Ghetto" by Ram John Holder
* "London Girl" by 50 Cent
* "London Girl" by The Jam
* "London Girl" by The Pogues[3]
* "London Girl" by Toyan
* "London Girls" by Chas & Dave (also covered by Tori Amos)[2]
* "London Girls" by Dave Warner
* "London Girls" by Kirsty MacColl (theme tune to sitcom Dream Stuffing)
* "London Girls" by Rosetta Stone
* "London Girls" by Stephen Duffy
* "London Girls" by The Vibrators
* "London Girls" by Yellow Dog
* "London Groove" by Airtight (includes Nick Nicely)
* "London Hates You" by The Kills
* "London, Here in London the Ideal Will not all be Undone..." by Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin (from the comedy musical The New Aladdin)
* "London Hilton" by Keith Mansfield
* "London Homesick Blues" by Gary P. Nunn sung by Jerry Jeff Walker
* "London Hornpipe" by Fiddling "Tater" Tate With Red Smiley & The Blue Grass Cut-Ups
* "London Hymn" by Josh Groban
* "The London I Love" by Vera Lynn (1941, by George Posford and Harold Purcell)
* "London (I'm Coming To See You)" by Glen Campbell
* "London Interlude" by Lonnie Liston Smith
* "London in July" by Corky Hale
* "London in the Rain" by Jeff Beck Band & Upp
* "London in the Rain" by Marc Jordan
* "London in the Rain" by Puressence
* "London in the Springtime (London Chimes)" by Paul Hardcastle
* "London in Terror" by Motionless in White
* "London Irish" by The Divine Comedy
* "London (Is A Little Bit of All Right)" by Noël Coward
* "London Is A Village" by Maxine Daniels
* "London Is Behind Me" by Justin Hayward
* "London Is Burning" by Mark Spiro
* "London Is Burning" by Smokie
* "London Is London" by The Nolans
* "London Is Lonely" by Holly Humberstone
* "London Is Mine" by White Rose Movement
* "London Is My Cup of Tea" by Acker Bilk
* "London Is The Biz" by The Firm (novelty band)
* "London Is The Place for Me" by Lord Kitchener
* "London Is The Reason" by Gallows
* "London Isn't Smiling Anymore" by Jack Jones
* "London Johnnies" music by Carlton Kelsey and Maurice Rubens; lyrics by Clifford Grey
* "London Kid" by Jean Michel Jarre
* "London Lady" by The Stranglers (mentions 'Dingwalls' nightblub)
* "London Lawa Yo" by Ebenezer Obey
* "London Leatherboys" by Accept
* "London Leaves" by Boxcar Willie
* "London Letters" by The Nits
* "London Life" by Anita Harris
* "London Life" by Down to the Bone
* "London Life" by Ian & Sylvia
* "London Life" by Syd Dale
* "London London" by The Regents (new wave band)
* "London, London - My Hometown" by Dave Lee (jazz musician)
* "London London" by Caetano Veloso[2]
* "London Look" by Herman's Hermits
* "London Loves" by Blur
* "London, Luck and Love" by Hall & Oates
* "London Madrid" by The Aislers Set
* "London Massive" by London Posse
* "London Mine" by Joy Crookes
* "London Mourning in Ashes" by Ewan MacColl
* "London Movie" by Glen Brown
* "London My Town" by Anthony Adverse
* "London My Home Town" by The Chantelles
* "London Nights" by Dawnstar
* "London Nights" by London Boys
* "London On A Rainy Night" by Ambrose (bandleader)
* "London On Sea" by Robb Johnson
* "London Overgrown" by John Foxx
* "A London Overture" by John Ireland
* "A London Overture" by Philip Sparke
* "London Pageant" by Arnold Bax
* "London-Paris" by Gazebo (musician)
* "London-Paris" by Pizzicato Five
* "London Paris Rome Blues Express" by Ram John Holder
* "London Particular" by The Ethical Debating Society (about the Heygate estate, Elephant and Castle)
* "London Patola" by Jazzie B
* "London People" by Friends, Lovers & Family
* "London Pieces" by John Ireland
* "London Plantation" by Mad Professor
* "London Posse" by London Posse
* "London Posse" by Toyan
* "London Pregnancy Test 1976" by Experimental Pop Band
* "London Pride" by Noël Coward[2]
* "London Punk" by Michael Gray (DJ)
* "London Queen" by Charli XCX from Sucker 2014
* "London Queen of My Heart" by Cath Carroll
* "London Rain" by Jah Wobble
* "London Rain (Nothing Heals Me Like you Do)" by Heather Nova
* "London Revisited" by Ray Russell
* "London Rhythm" by Mills Brothers
* "London River" by Fairport Convention
* "London Rock" by Al Campbell
* "London Rock" by BK vs. Ali Wilson
* "London Rock" by Tony Crombie
* "London Rock" by U Brown
* "London Rock" by The Zanies (featuring Davie Allan)
* "London Rocker" by Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages
* "London Samba" by Joyce Moreno (musician)
* "London Skank" by Jah Thomas
* "London Skies" by Jamie Cullum
* "London Skies" by Glen Goldsmith
* "London Skies London Eyes" by Little Man Tate
* "London Skyline" by Acoustic Alchemy
* "London Song" by The Breeders
* "London Song" by Ray Davies
* "London Song" by Mike Westbrook
* "London Song" by Seatrain
* "London Sound" by The Freestylers
* "London South" by Nick Nicely
* "London Special" by Champion Jack Dupree
* "London Still" by The Waifs
* "London Stomp" by Bo Diddley
* "London Stone" by Bevis Frond
* "London Story" by England
* "London Suite" by Fats Waller (recorded 1939 in London)
* "London Suite" by Louis Bellson
* "London Sun" by Wheatus
* "A London Symphony" by Ralph Vaughan Williams
* "London Symphony" by Joseph Haydn
* "London Talking" by Ian Dury
* "London Talking Blues" by Jeremy Taylor (singer)
* "London Tango" by Sydney Thompson (musician) and his Orchestra
* "London Taps" music and lyrics by John Golden lyrics by John E. Hazzard
* "The London Theme" by John Barry
* "The London Theme" by Ron Goodwin
* "London Thing" by Ranking Dread
* "London Times" by Radio Heart and Gary Numan
* "London To Birmingham" by Jah Woosh
* "London To Gaza" by Gilad Atzmon
* "London Tonight" by Collapsed Lung
* "London Tonight" by Skinny (band)
* "London Town" by Bellowhead[2]
* "London Town" by Bill Summers and Summers Heat
* "London Town" by Bucks Fizz
* "London Town" by Dennis Alcapone
* "London Town" by Donovan
* "London Town" by Dub Pistols
* "London Town" by Sir Edward German
* "London Town" by  Gene Chandler a k a The Duke of Earl
* "London Town" by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis
* "London Town" by Helen Trix
* "London Town" by The Holloways
* "London Town" by James Taylor
* "London Town" by John Bundrick
* "London Town" by Jon Pertwee
* "London Town" by Kano
* "London Town" by Kobo Town
* "London Town" by Kosmos Express
* "London Town" by Laura Marling[2]
* "London Town" by Lally Stott
* "London Town" by Lena Fiagbe
* "London Town" by Les Humphries
* "London Town" by Light of the World[2]
* "London Town" by Master Shortie
* "London Town" by Mick Taylor
* "London Town" by Mike Read
* "London Town" by Oliver Onions
* "London Town" by Paul McCartney & Wings
* "London Town" by The Pretty Things
* "London Town" by Ralph Reader
* "London Town" by Rolf Harris
* "London Town" by Ronald Binge
* "London Town" by Shack
* "London Town" by Shawn Phillips
* "London Town" by Special Duties
* "London Town" by Stanley Holloway
* "London Town" by Tetsu Yamauchi
* "London Town C'mon Down" by Roger Taylor
* "London Town Girl" by Epitaph
* "London Town (You Haunt Me)" from The Co-Optimists
* "London Traffic" by Giorgio
* "London Traffic" by The Jam
* "London Trios" by Joseph Haydn
* "London Tu Nachdi" by Apache Indian
* "London Underground" by Amateur Transplants
* "London Underground" by Gregg Karukas
* "London Underground" by Julian Cope
* "London Waltz" by Richard Fariña
* "The London We Live In " by Arthur Mullard
* "London West One" by Joe Henderson
* "The London Whine Company" by McLusky
* "London You're a Lady" by The Pogues
* "Londonola" by Roy Fox
* "London's A Lonely Town" by Dave Edmunds
* "London's After Work Drinking Culture" by John Howard (singer-songwriter) and The Night Mail
* "London's Brilliant" by Elvis Costello (recorded by Wendy James)
* "London's Brilliant Parade" by Elvis Costello[1]
* "London's Burning" by Big Youth
* "London's Burning" by The Clash[3]
* "London's Burning" by Grace Petrie
* "London's Burning" by Johnny Warman
* "London's Finest" by Simon Harris
* "London's Fog" by Mikis Theodorakis
* "London's Lottery" by Ewan MacColl
* "London's Low Market Pricing" by Eric Van Der Westen's Quadrant Extended
* "London's Mine" by White Rose Movement
* "London's Not Too Far" by Hank Marvin
* "London's Song" by Matt Hartke
* "London's Up For Sale" by Leslie Crowther
* "Londres" by Brazzaville
* "Lonely in London" by Betty Roe
* "Lonely London" by Jah Wobble
* "Long Island" by Trevor Rabin
* "Long Live Rock" by The Who (about a Who concert in London at the Rainbow Theatre)
* "Looking Down on London" by Komputer
* "Looking Down on London" by T. V. Smith's Explorers
* "Looking For Mugs in the Strand" by George Formby Snr
* "The Lord Abides in London" from Sherlock Holmes: The Musical
* "The Lord Mayor's Show" by Jack Payne (bandleader)
* "Lords Pavilion" by Instant Sunshine
* "Lorelei" by Lonnie Donegan
* "Los Peckham Ryos" by Instant Sunshine
* "Losing Haringey" by The Clientele
* "Lost In London" by The Tangent
* "Lost on the High Street" by Colour Me Wednesday (about Uxbridge)
* "Love On The Northern Line" by Northern Line (band)
* "Lovedrive" by The Scorpions
* "Lovely Bermondsey" by Dick Emery
* "Lovely London" by Monty Norman
* "Lovely London Town" by Gwyneth Herbert (from the musical The A-Z of Mrs P)
* "Lovely Money" by The Damned (Soho, Tower of London etc.)
* "Lovers of London" by Linus
* "Lovers In Hyde Park" by Bill Shepherd (arranger for the Bee Gees)
* "London is the reason" by Gallows
* "Lucifer Over London" by Current 93
* "Lucky in London" by A Witness
* "Lullaby of London" by The Pogues

## M

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* "M25" by Adamski
* "M25" by Jah Wobble
* "M4 Freedom Talking Blues" by Spike Milligan & Jeremy Taylor
* "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")
* "Mad Bess of Bedlam" by Kathleen Ferrier
* "Mad Tom of Bedlam" by Jolie Holland
* "Madam Tussauds" by DJ SS
* "Magic's Back" (Theme From 'The Ghosts of Oxford Street')" by Malcolm McLaren
* "Maids of Bond Street" by David Bowie
* "Maida Aida" by The Nips
* "Maida Vale" by Linda Hoyle
* "Man From Shooters Hill" by Keith Hudson
* "Man I Hate Your Band" by Little Man Tate
* "Man on the Tube" by The Passions
* "Man Out of Time" by Elvis Costello (references Knightsbridge and Traitors' Gate)
* "Marble Arch" by Clifford T Ward
* "Marble Arch" by Dave Brubeck Quartet
* "Marble Arch" by Roddy Frame
* "Marcel's" by Herman's Hermits (Wapping)
* "Marcie Dreams of Deptford" by Saint Etienne
* "Mario's Cafe" by Saint Etienne[2]
* "Marshalsea" by Ivor Raymonde
* "Martell" by The Cribs
* "Martin" by Tom Robinson Band (Clapham)
* "Mascara" by Dream Wife (Mascara Bar [Stamford Hill], Clapton, Hackney Downs)
* "The Masher King of Piccadilly" by Richard Corney Grain
* "Mash It Up Harry" by Ian Dury (Wembley, Wembley Way, Harold Hill etc.)
* "Maskenball bei Scotland Yard" by Bill Ramsey
* "Maudie Golightly" by Noël Coward ("Though she had a flat in Albemarle Street")
* "Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner" by Hubert Gregg[2]
* "Mayfair" by Eric Coates (from London Again Suite)
* "Mayfair" by Nick Drake
* "Mayfair" by The Quireboys
* "Mayfair Affair" from Kean (musical)
* "Mayfair Model" by Ray Martin (orchestra leader)
* "Me And Mr Jones" by Amy Winehouse (Brixton)
* "Me and My Desire (Meanwhile in a Luxury Dockland Home)" by Television Personalities (Tower Bridge, London Docklands)
* "Me, Certainly Me" by A.D. River and James Moody ("I came up to London and walked down the Strand")
* "Medicine Show" by Big Audio Dynamite
* "Meet Me At The Strand" by Monty Norman
* "Meet Me in Battersea Park" by Petula Clark[2]
* "Meltdown (At Madame Tussaud's)" by Steve Taylor
* "Memories of 3rd Base" by Skream[2]
* "Memories Of Camden By The Canal" by Jah Wobble
* "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")
* "The Menace" by Lowkey
* "Mercy I Cry City" by The Incredible String Band (the reference to the "choky tube" make clear it is about London)
* "Meridian Council Estate (Vandalise Tourists' Property, Not Residents')" by Billy Jenkins (musician)
* "The Metro" by Berlin (about London & Paris)
* "Metroland" by Mark Knopfler
* "Metroland" by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
* "Middlesex Man" by Instant Sunshine
* "Midnight In Abbey Road" by Jim Pembroke
* "Midnight in Berkeley Square" by Pharoah Sanders
* "Midnight in Chelsea" by Jon Bon Jovi (about the Chelsea neighbourhood "I've seen a lone Sloane Ranger drive..")
* "Midnight in London" by Würzel
* "Midnight In Mayfair" by Ambrose (bandleader)
* "Mile End" by Pulp[2]
* "Milk Bottle Symphony" by Saint Etienne (about Turnpike House tower block, Goswell Road, Islington)
* "Mill Hill Self Hate Club" by Ed Ball
* "Millers Pond Boogie" by Bob Burgos (member of Matchbox (band))
* "Millwall" by Millwall FC
* "Millwall Brick" by Doug Aldrich
* "Millwall Inner Docks" by The Recedents (featuring Mike Cooper (musician))
* "Milton at the Savoy" by The Shirts
* "Mind The Gap" by Noisettes
* "Minuetto Allegretto" by The Wombles (band)
* "Miracles In Fulham" by Robb Johnson
* "Misadventure" by Squeeze (Isle of Dogs)
* "Miss London" by The Times
* "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
* "Mix It Up" by Acid Fingers Simon Harris ('The Sound of Young London')
* "Modern Art" by Art Brut ("so I'm in the Tate and I'm looking at a Hockney")
* "Modern Girl" by Sheena Easton
* "Moon Over Archway" by Cath Carroll
* "Moon Over Brixton" by Bernie Worrell
* "Moon Over Romford" (from Hello Cheeky)
* "Moonlight On The Thames" (from London Town (1946 film))
* "Moonlight Over The Thames" by Bill Shepherd (arranger for the Bee Gees)
* "Moonlighting" by Leo Sayer
* "Morden" by Good Shoes
* "Mouse in a Hole" by Heavy Stereo
* "Mornington Crescent" by Belle & Sebastian[2]
* "Mornington Crescent" by Temperance Seven
* "Morwell in London" by The Morwells
* "Mother Goose" by Jethro Tull
* "Mother London" by Steve Jansen/Richard Barbieri
* "The Mountains of Mourne" by Don McLean ft William Percy French
* "Move on Now" by Hard-Fi (References Heathrow Airport)
* "Mr Speaker (Gets the Word)" by Madness (about Speaker's Corner; "Making space from Colney Hatch Lane")
* "Much Too Much" by Les Incompétents
* "Mulberry Dawn" by Peter Sarstedt
* "Murder at the End of the Day" by Tom Robinson
* "Museum" by Donovan and Herman's Hermits ("meet me under the whale in the Natural History Museum")
* "Muswell Hill" by David Freeman
* "Muswell Hillbillies" by The Kinks
* "My Chelsea" by Phil Minton, Lol Coxhill, Noël Akchoté
* "My City" by George the Poet
* "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 Town" by Clifford Grey, Ivor Novello and Howard Talbot
* "My Object All Sublime" from The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan
* "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)
* "The Myths And Legends Of King Merton Womble And His Journey To The Centre Of The Earth" by The Wombles (band)

## N

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* "N16" by Deirdre Cartwright
* "Nacht in Soho" by Dietmar Schönherr
* "Nan I Am London" by Wiley
* "Narcissist" by The Libertines
* "Natty Dub in a London" by U Brown
* "Near the Moon" by Animals That Swim (describes a location in the vicinity of Stoke Newington)
* "Neasden" by Willie Rushton
* "Neckinger" by Oicho (David Harrow)
* "Negotiations in Soho Square" by The Tremeloes
* "Nelson's Column" by Eddie Thompson
* "Nelson's Column" by Haydn Wood (from London Landmarks Suite)
* "Nevermore" by U.K. (Soho)
* "Never See London Again" by Lincoln
* "New Amsterdam" by Elvis Costello (Rotherhithe)
* "New Crass Massahkah" by Linton Kwesi Johnson[2]
* "New Cross" by Part Chimp
* "New Cross 13" by The Blackstones
* "New Face in N16" by The Apostles
* "New Kent Road" by Dennis Bovell
* "Theme From New Scotland Yard" by Norrie Paramor
* "New Thing From London Town" by Sharpe and Numan
* "New Tunbridge Wells at Islington" by John Lockman
* "New York, London, Amsterdam" by The Captain & Steve Thomas
* "(New York London Paris) Spleen" by Art of Noise
* "The Newgate Wind" by The Bevis Frond
* "Newgate's Knocker" by Jools Holland
* "Newington" (hymn tune by William Maclagan)
* "Newington Gardens" by Lyn Dobson
* "Newman Street" by Axis Point
* "Next Plane to London" by The Rose Garden
* "Next Stop London" by Union
* "Nice Man Jack (Kensington Gardens/Mitre Square/Harley Street)" by John Miles
* "Nice One Bruvva" by Paul F & Mr T (hard trance tune featuring the line "you big cockney space case")
* "Night Bus To Dalston" by Bad Manners
* "Night Falls on London" by The Waterboys
* "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 in Acton (After Dark in W3)" by The Beatmasters
* "Night Terror" by Laura Marling ("I woke up on a bench on Shepherds Bush Green")
* "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" by Vera Lynn (by Eric Maschwitz and Manning Sherwin)
* "Nine out of Ten" by Caetano Veloso ("Walk down Portobello Road...")
* "Nite Train To London" by Moon Martin
* "No More" by Noël Coward ("No more binges at the Piccadilly; Cafe Royal and Ritz..")
* "No Place Like London" by Stephen Sondheim
* "No Place Like London" by Todd Edwards
* "No Respect" by Bad Manners (Soho)
* "No Town Hall (Southwark)" by Crisis
* "No War in Russell Square" by Software (project featuring Patrick Leonard)
* "No.1 with a Bullet" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins (in The Highbury Working)
* "No. 10 Downing Street" by The Troggs
* "Nobody Compares" by One Direction ("You're so London, your own style...") from Take Me Home 2012
* "Non-Stop London" by Johnny Dankworth
* "North Circular" by Real Lies
* "North Circular Dub" by King Tubby
* "North End Road" by Peter Bardens
* "North Kensington" by The Lilac Time
* "North London" by Wiley
* "North London Boy" by Incognito
* "North London Thing (Carry the Swing)" by Prince Hammer
* "North London Trash" by Razorlight
* "North Thames Gas Board" by The End
* "North West Three" by Fatboy Slim
* "Northcote Arms" by Mungo Jerry
* "Northern Line" by Jamie T
* "Northern Line" by Yeti
* "Northern Line, Black Heart" by Tyla
* "Northsides" by Chester P
* "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" by The Beatles[1]
* "Not Dark Yet" by Bob Dylan ("Well I been to London, and I been to gay Paree")
* "Nothing Has Been Proved" by Dusty Springfield (written by Pet Shop Boys)
* "Notting Hill" by Trevor Jones
* "Notting Hill" by Wild Willy Barrett
* "Notting Hill Blues" by Aztec Camera
* "Notting Hill Eviction Blues" by Ram John Holder
* "Notting Hill Gate" by the Reckless Sleepers (featured Jules Shear)
* "The Notting Hill Two-Step" by Acoustic Alchemy
* "Now You're Just Being Ridiculous" by Television Personalities (Greenwich Park)
* "Number One Bus" by Nuru Kane (describes Bermondsey and Islington and bus routes between)
* "Number One: Protection" by Tom Robinson Band
* "Nunhead" by Happy Accidents
* "NW3" by The Apostles
* "NW3" by The Pogues
* "NW5" by Madness (The Liberty of Norton Folgate album)
* "NW6" by Dave Shepherd Quintet (jazz)
* "NW8" by Bernie Marsden
* "NW10" by JC Carroll
* "The Nymph's Dance – The Second of Grays Inn" by Mannheim Steamroller

## O

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* "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 Eversholt" by Ciccone (named for Eversholt Street in Camden)
* "Oh, if you come to Brixton there are lots of sights to see" from The Girl From Utah
* "Oh, London Girls Are All So Haughty, Proud, and Chilly" from A Country Girl
* "Oh, London is Really a Wonderful Town..." by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank (from the musical comedy Our Miss Gibbs)
* "Oh! Mr Porter" by George Le Brunn
* "Oi! Oi! Oi!" by Cockney Rejects
* "Old Compton Street" by Don Black (from the musical 'Budgie')out
* "Old Compton Street Blues" by Al Stewart
* "Old Jewish East End Of London Dub" by Jah Wobble
* "The Old Main Drag" by The Pogues
* "Old Kent Road" by Plainsong
* "Old Kent Road" by The Upsetters
* "Old Lady of Stokey" by Ranking Dread
* "Old London Cries" from Sailing Along
* "Old London Town" by Benny Martin
* "Old River Thames" by Automatics
* "Old Siam Sir" by Paul McCartney
* "Old Smokey" by Linda Lewis
* "Old Soho" by Murray Head
* "Old St. Boogie" by Eat
* "The Old Welsh Harp" by Florrie Forde (about the Old Welsh Harp Tavern that stood in Hendon)
* "Olympia" by Lush
* "On A Mission" by The Rakes
* "On And On " by Aswad featuring Sweetie Irie
* "On (Catford) Broadway" by Billy Jenkins
* "On Frith Street" by Mo Foster
* "On Lavender Hill" by The Real Tuesday Weld
* "On London Bridge" by Jo Stafford
* "On Mother Kelly's Doorstep" by George Alex Stevens ("Paradise Row" is in Bethnal Green)
* "On The GPO Tower" by Don Spencer
* "On the Kings Road" by The Young Idea (featuring Tony Cox (record producer))
* "On The Steps of Old St Pauls" by Billy Cotton
* "Once Upon A Long Ago" by Paul McCartney
* "One Better Day" by Madness
* "One Day in London" by Leslie Bricusse
* "One Drop" by P.I.L.
* "One For John Gee" by Jethro Tull (John Gee being manager of London's Marquee Club.)
* "One For The Burglar" by D.S. Building Contractors (who included half of Orbital)
* "One Hundred Punks" by Generation X (Wardour Street, Soho)
* "One Man Band" by Leo Sayer ("Everyone knows you in Ladbroke Grove")
* "One Two Three (The Ballad of Notting Hill Gate)" by Heron
* "The Only Cool Girl in Ladbroke Grove" by The Manges
* "The Only Living Boy in New Cross" by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
* "Open Piccadilly" by Lol Coxhill
* "Operation Trident" by Mad Professor
* "Òran na Cloiche", Scottish Gaelic folk song (commemorates the removal of the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey)
* "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 Are on Their Way To Wembley)" by Tottenham Hotspur FC With Chas & Dave
* "Our Man in London" by CCS
* "Outer Space/Carry On" by 5 Seconds of Summer
* "Outskirts of London" by Melanie Harrold & Olly Blanchflower
* "Over London Skies" by The Orchestra
* "Over The Flats" by T. Rex
* "Oxford Street" by Everything But The Girl
* "Oxford Street" by The Monks
* "Oxford St, W1" by Television Personalities
* "Oxford Street March" by Eric Coates

## P

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* "P.25 London" by The Black Crowes
* "Paddington" by Blancmange
* "Paddington Bear" by Bernard Cribbins
* "Paddington Green" by Ray Burton
* "Paid in Full" by Eric B. & Rakim
* "Painter Man" by The Creation
* "Painting and Kissing" by Hefner (Holloway Road)
* "Palewell Park" by Bruford
* "Pall Mall Blues" by Joe Pass, Boško Petrović, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
* "Panic" by The Smiths
* "Paris" by The 1975
* "Parker – Well Done!" by Barry Gray Orchestra
* "Parkeskine" by Saint Etienne
* "Parliament Hill" by Magna Carta
* "Parliament Hill" by Saint Etienne
* "Parliament Hill Fields" by Captain Sensible
* "Parliament Hill Fields" by Stephen Duffy & the Lilac Time
* "Part Time Punks" by Television Personalities
* "Parties in Chelsea" by Television Personalities
* "Party in Paris" by UK Subs ("meanwhile back in London", etc.)
* "Passing Through" by Fad Gadget
* "Pass Me the Rizla" by London Posse (Wood Green)
* "Passport To Pimlico" by Johnny Mandel
* "Paternosta Row" by The Twilights
* "Peace of Mind" by Curved Air (Isle of Dogs)
* "Pearly King And Queen" by Portion Control
* "Pearly Queen" by Dave Mason
* "Peckham Royalty" by Robin Jones Latin Jazz Sextet (featuring Snowboy)
* "Pembridge Court" by Big Jay McNeely
* "Pentonville" by Babyshambles
* "Pentonville" by Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band
* "Pentonville Blues" by Glide & Swerve featuring Boy George
* "Peter the Painter" by Ian Dury[2]
* "Petticoat Lane" by Stanley Holloway
* "Petticoat Lane (On A Saturday Ain't So Nice)" by Lionel Bart
* "Petticoat Lane Rag" by Euday L. Bowman
* "Picadilly Lily" by Herbert Kretzmer (from the musical film Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?)
* "Piccadilly" by Adam Ant
* "Piccadilly" by Ambrose
* "Piccadilly" by Arnold Steck
* "Piccadilly" by Crazy Otto
* "Piccadilly" by David Rose and his Orchestra
* "Piccadilly" by Fats Waller (from The London Suite)
* "Piccadilly" by Fritz Schulz-Reichel
* "Piccadilly" by Hetty King
* "Piccadilly" by Julie Andrews
* "Piccadilly" by Squeeze[2]
* "Piccadilly" by Tir Na Nog
* "Piccadilly" by Vivian Ellis
* "Piccadilly 2AM" by Ray Martin
* "Piccadilly Baby" by Blue Diamonds
* "Piccadilly Circus" by Adamski's Thing
* "Piccadilly Circus" by Bill Ramsey
* "Piccadilly Circus" by Frank Boeijen (in Dutch)
* "Piccadilly Circus" by King Tubby
* "Piccadilly Circus" by Ray Anthony
* "Piccadilly Circus" by Stiff Little Fingers
* "Piccadilly Circus" by Pernilla Wahlgren
* "Piccadilly Circus Blues" by Ram John Holder
* "Piccadilly Circus Dub" by Sir Coxson Sound Lloyd Coxsone
* "Piccadilly Folks" by Lord Kitchener
* "Piccadilly Hop" by The Hippy Boys
* "Piccadilly in the Rain (I'll Be There)" by Scarlet
* "Piccadilly Jumps" by Johnny Keating
* "Piccadilly Lady" by David Garrick
* "Piccadilly Lily" by David Liebman
* "Piccadilly Line" by Jim Dale
* "Piccadilly Line" by Liverpool Five
* "Piccadilly Night Ride" by Alan Hawkshaw
* "Piccadilly Palare" by Morrissey (also references Manchester)
* "Piccadilly Panic" by Ralph Sharon
* "Piccadilly Pick Up" by Bill Shepherd (arranger for the Bee Gees)
* "Piccadilly Picnic" by David A. Stewart
* "Piccadilly Rag" by Joe 'Fingers' Carr
* "Piccadilly Rock" by Bill Haley & His Comets
* "Piccadilly Run" by Downliners Sect
* "Piccadilly Sidetracks" by The Enemy
* "Piccadilly Sweet" by Ekseption
* "The Piccadilly Trail" by The Style Council
* "The Piccadilly Trot" by George Arthurs and Worton Davis (sung by Marie Lloyd)
* "Piccadilly Walk" by Johnny Pearson
* "Piccalilli Dilly" by Bill Finnegan
* "Pick-A-Dilly" by Bill Perkins
* "Pigeon Song" by Patrick Wolf
* "Pigeons" by Genesis
* "Pimlico" by David Devant & His Spirit Wife
* "Pinball" by Brian Protheroe
* "Pinball Wizard" by The Who
* "Pissed Up in SE1" by Aphex Twin
* "Pizzicato Piccadilly" by Betty Roe
* "Places" by Fountains of Wayne
* "Plaistow Patricia" by Ian Dury
* "Plaistow Flex Out" by Squarepusher
* "Planet Hackney" by Overlord X
* "Plastic Surgery" by Adam and the Ants ("gonna take you down to Harley Street")
* "Platform End" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
* "Play with Fire" by The Rolling Stones[1] (St Johns Wood, Stepney, Knightsbridge)
* "The Pleasures of Spring Gardens, Vauxhall" by William Boyce
* "The Ploughboy And The Cockney" by Tim Hart & Maddy Prior
* "A Poem on the Underground Wall" by Simon and Garfunkel
* "Police Car" by Cockney Rejects ("I got nicked up West Ham!")
* "Police Officer" by Smiley Culture (East London, cockneys, Victoria)
* "The Pond" by Phil Daniels + the Cross
* "Ponders End Allotments Club" by Chas & Dave
* "Pool of London" by Douglas Gamley
* "Pop Go The Workers (Pt 2)" by Barron Knights
* "Pop Goes the Weasel" – composer unknown ("Up and down the City Road, in and out the Eagle.")
* "Port London Early" by Robin Williamson
* "Portland Place" by Tommy Whittle
* "Portobello" by Lords of the New Church
* "Portobello Belle" by Dire Straits
* "Portobello Cafe" by Ballistic Brothers
* "Portobello Man" by The Bevis Frond
* "Portobello Market" by Syd Dale
* "Portobello Road" by Cat Stevens
* "Portobello Road" by Billy Nicholls
* "Portobello Road" by Sherman Brothers (from Bedknobs and Broomsticks)[2]
* "Portobello Road" by Clement "Coxsone" Dodd
* "Portobello Shuffle" by Pink Fairies
* "Posin' At The Roundhouse" by Television Personalities
* "Possibly Parsons Green" by Fairport Convention
* "Postcard From London" by Ray Davies
* "Powder Blue" by Madness
* "Power in the Darkness" by Tom Robinson Band (2004 Version)
* "Powis Square" by Ry Cooder
* "Prelude – Blues SW19" by Mo Foster
* "The Prettiest Star" by David Bowie (Gloucester Road)
* "Pretty Little Villa Down at Barking" by Gus Elen
* "Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green" by Harry Clifton
* "Primitive London" by Basil Kirchin
* "Primrose 0822" by The Times
* "Primrose Hill" by Beverley Martyn[2]
* "Primrose Hill" by James McCartney (featuring Sean Lennon)
* "Primrose Hill" by Kathe Green
* "Primrose Hill" by Loudon Wainwright III[2]
* "Primrose Hill" by Madness
* "Primrose Hill" by Peggy Seeger
* "Primrose Hill" by Ray Russell
* "Primrose Hill"[I] by Saint Etienne
* "Primrose Hill" by Underworld And Gabriel Yared
* "Primrose Hill (Theme For Jake)" by Rock Workshop (featuring Alex Harvey)
* "Prince Igor" by The Rapsody featuring Warren G
* "A Prince in a Pauper's Grave" by Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine (Elephant and Castle)
* "Princelet Street" by Catherine Howe
* "Probably A Robbery" by Renegade Soundwave (Lloyd's, Flying Squad)
* "The Procession of Popular Capitalism" by McCarthy (the Strand, Whitehall)
* "Products" by Sway ft. El Rae
* "Professor X" by Dave
* "Proud Thames" by Louis Bellson
* "Pudding Mill Lane" by Saint Etienne (a street and DLR station in Stratford)
* "Pulled Along by Love" by The Mutton Birds (trains on the Northern line)
* "Puss in Boots" by Adam Ant ("I've been to London, and now I'm queen..")
* "Pussy Willow" by Jethro Tull ("in old Mayfair")
* "Put A Bolt in the Door" by Gallon Drunk
* "Putney" by Jah Wobble
* "Puttin' on The Ritz" by Irving Berlin

## Q

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* "Queen Mary's Garden" by Haydn Wood
* "Queensbury Station" by The Magoo Brothers
* "Queue At Drury Lane" from Kean (musical)

## R

[edit]

* "Railway Hotel" by Mike Batt
* "Rain Fall Down" by The Rolling Stones
* "Raining in London" by The Peddlers
* "A Rainy Day in London" by Paris
* "Rainy Day in London" by Boulevard
* "Rainy Day in London" by The Peddlers
* "Rainy Night in Kilburn" by Ducks Deluxe
* "Rainy Night in London" by Ranking Dread
* "Rainy Night in Soho" by The Pogues
* "A Ramble in St James's Park" by Michael Nyman
* "Rat City" by Art Attacks
* "Ratcliffe Highway" by Fairport Convention; Marc Almond
* "Ravensbourne" by Oicho (David Harrow)
* "Rayner's Lane" by Real People
* "Real Estate" by Blak Twang (SE8, Tanner's Hill, Stockwell Park Estate, Stonebridge, Broadwater Farm, Baskerville, New Cross)
* "Reachin'" by Alabama 3
* "Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3" by Ian Dury
* "Red Bus Rover" by Sidi Bou Said
* "Red For Piccadilly" by Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band
* "Red London" by Sham 69
* "Red Skies Over Wembley" by The Decorators;[10] Serious Drinking
* "The Red Weed" from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
* "Regent Square" by Henry Smart
* "Regent Street Incident" by String Driven Thing
* "Regent's Park" by Connie Francis
* "Regent's Park in Blue" by Dan Melchior
* "Reggae Fi Peach" by Linton Kwesi Johnson
* "Reggae in London City" by The Pioneers
* "Reggie Song" by P.I.L. (Finsbury Park, Seven Sisters)
* "Rehoused in Hounslow" by Robb Johnson
* "Remember You're A Womble" by The Wombles
* "Remembering Petticoat Lane" by John Williams (an instrumental from the Jurassic Park OST)
* "Remote Control" by The Clash
* "Rene" by Small Faces
* "Rendezvous 6:02" by U.K.
* "Respect Me" by Dizzee Rascal (reference to "Holly Street" in E8)
* "The Resurrectionist" by Pet Shop Boys
* "Retreat" by The Rakes
* "Return To Tooting Broadway" by Dick Morrissey & Jim Mullen
* "Return to the London Flat" by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
* "Rhyme" by William Walton
* "Rich Girl" by Gwen Stefani ft Eve ("Please book me first class to my fancy house in London Town")
* "Rich Ah Gettin Richer" by Rebel MC (references Tottenham 3, London massive etc.)
* "Richmond" by The Faces
* "Richmond" by Shelagh McDonald
* "Richmond Bridge" by Piero Piccioni
* "Richmond Rhythm & Blues" by Downliners Sect
* "Riddle in London Town" by State Radio
* "The Right Place For Meeting Is The Piccadilly Tube" by Clifford Grey and Nat Ayer
* "The Right Side Of Bond Street" from The Bing Boys Are Here
* "Rigs of London" by Ian Campbell Folk Group (traditional folk song)
* "Riot in a Notting Hill" by The Pioneers
* "Riot In Brixton" by Kwesi
* "Riot in Hyde Park" by Lower Class Brats
* "Riots In Brixton" by English Friday (an alias of Todd Terry)
* "Riots Over London" by 400 Blows
* "Rising Above Bedlam" by Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart
* "River Lea" by Adele
* "The Road To Hell" by Chris Rea (about the M25 motorway around London)
* "Road To Plaistow" (from Hello Cheeky)
* "Roadblock" by Stock Aitken Waterman
* "Roaring at the Savoy" by Colin Towns Mask Orchestra
* "Rock 'n' Roll Lies" by Razorlight
* "Rock Your Body Rock" by Ferry Corsten
* "Rockin' At The 2 I's" by Wee Willie Harris
* "Rockin' At The Ritz" by Ray Campi
* "Rockin' At The Roundhouse" by Bert Weedon
* "Rolling Around Piccadilly" by George Formby
* "Romford Bypass" by Alexei Sayle
* "Romford Girls" by Riff Raff
* "Romford Rap" by Chas & Dave feat The Matchroom Mob
* "A Room in Bloomsbury" by Sandy Wilson
* "Rose A London" by Arthur Louis
* "Rose Ann of Charing Cross" by Frank Sinatra
* "Rosemary McLaren of the Strand" by Richard Digance
* "Rossiter Road" by Ahmad Jamal
* "Rossmore Road (NW1)" by Barry Andrews
* "Rotten Row" by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
* "Rotten Row Boogie" by Jools Holland
* "Round About Regent Street" by Jay Wilbur
* "Round Here" by George Michael
* "Round the Marble Arch" by Ralph Butler and Noel Gay
* "Rough in Hackney" by Overlord X
* "The Rover" by Led Zeppelin ("I've been to London...") 1975
* "Rowbottom Square" by Barry Mason
* "Roxy Girl" by The Radiators from Space
* "Ruby Soho" by Rancid
* "Rudie Can't Fail" by The Clash; also The Tuts ("On the route of the 19 bus.")
* "Rumpole of the Bailey" by Joseph Horovitz
* "Runaways" by Shut Up And Dance
* "The Rust on the Screws of the Churchill Theatre" by Billy Jenkins

## S

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* "Saddle Up 1990" by David Christie featuring MC De
* "Saddlers Wells" by Haydn Wood
* "Sad Mona Lisa" by Television Personalities
* "Sage of Sydney Street" by Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation
* "St. Andrew's By The Wardrobe" by Jools Holland
* "St. Francis Amongst the Mortals" by McCarthy ("..arrived in London and lived a lamb-like life..")
* "St. James's Park" by Harry Leon and Tommie Connor, recorded by several artists including Leslie Holmes
* "St. James Park in Spring" by Haydn Wood
* "St. James Walk" by The Clientele
* "St. John's Wood Affair" by Nirvana (British band)
* "St. Martin's In The Fields" by Jools Holland
* "St. Martin's-In-The-Fields" by The Rain
* "St. Mary-Le-Bow" by Jah Wobble
* "St. Pancras" by Quintessence
* "St. Pancras" by Underworld And Gabriel Yared
* "St. Paul's" by Blancmange
* "St. Paul's" by Douglas Gamley
* "St. Paul's Beneath a Sinking Sky" by The Clientele
* "St. Paul's Suite" by Gustav Holst
* "St. Paul's Wharf" by John Fox (composer, arranger, conductor)
* "Sal and Methuselam" by F. C. Sansom (probably 1866, sung by William H. Lingard)
* "Sale of the Century" by Sleeper
* "Salt Box Hill" by Bob Burgos (member of Matchbox)
* "Salvador Dalí's Garden Party" by Television Personalities (Kensington Market)
* "Sam" by Suede (Lancaster Road)
* "Sam's Town" by The Killers
* "Santa Ain't Commin Down to Brixton Town" by Jackie Robinson
* "Satellite" by Sex Pistols
* "Saturday Gigs" by Mott the Hoople (Chelsea, Croydon, Roundhouse [Camden], etc)
* "Saturday in the Kings Road" by Harry Robertson (musician) And His Orchestra
* "Saturday Morning In Angel Lane" by Ewan MacColl
* "Saturday Night Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees" by The Leyton Buzzards ("Found my Mecca near Tottenham Hale station, I discovered heaven in the Seven Sisters Road" and also "Crews from Balham and Golders Green...")
* "Saturday Night in Camden Town" by International Observer
* "Saturday Night Facts of Life" by Comet Gain, The Cribs
* "Saturday Nite" by Earth, Wind & Fire
* "Save the World, Get the Girl" by The King Blues
* "Saville Row" by Skeewiff
* "Say A Little Prayer" by Bomb The Bass
* "Scandal in Brixton Market" by Girlie & Laurel Aitken
* "Scarlet Begonias" by Grateful Dead ("As I was walking 'round Grosvenor Square...")
* "Schooltime Chronicle" by Smiley Culture (Tulse Hill, Stockwell, Kennington)
* "Scotland Yard" by Garry & The Gonads
* "Scotland Yard" by Phillip Boa
* "Screwface Capital" by Dave (Streatham)
* "SE12" by The Business
* "SE15" by Freq Nasty
* "SE16" by God Colony ft. Flohio
* "SE18" by The Visitors (2003)
* "Seaside Shuffle" by Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs
* "Second Hand" by Wilfrid Brambell (1962: namechecks London locations and sung as if by Steptoe senior)
* "See My Friends" by The Kinks ("They'll cross the river..." Thames)
* "Seeing Through London" by Joseph Cotton And The Lord Son
* "Serpentine Gallery" by Alternative TV
* "Set The Thames on Fire" by Scientist
* "Seven Kings" by Juan María Solare
* "Seven Dials" by Jah Wobble & Ollie Marland
* "Seven Dials" by Jools Holland
* "Seven Dials" by Madness
* "Seven Sisters Dub" by King Tubby
* "Seven Sisters Road" by Dan Reed Network
* "Seven Sisters to Silverlake" by Comet Gain
* "Sex Kick (Ciao Portobello)" by Transvision Vamp
* "The Sewers of the Strand" by Spike Milligan
* "Shad Thames" by Saint Etienne
* "Shadwell Stair" by Betty Roe
* "Shake Buckingham Palace Down" by Dennis Bovell
* "Shakespeare Road" by The Mahones
* "Shakin' Up (Downing Street)" by Bad Manners
* "She Ain't Worth It" by Glenn Medeiros ft Bobby Brown (Boilerhouse mix)
* "She Was Poor But She Was Honest" by R.P. Weston and Bert Lee ("Then she ran away to London to hide her grief and shame")
* "She Wears Red Feathers" by Guy Mitchell
* "Sheila" by Jamie T[2]
* "Shepherd's Bush" by Elizabeth Barraclough
* "Shepherds Bush Cowboy" by Third World War
* "Shepherds Bush in Dub" by King Tubby Meets Roots Radics
* "She's A Woman" by Scritti Politti & Shabba Ranks
* "Shock on the Tube" by 10cc
* "Shopping In Kensington" (from Follow That Girl)
* "Shouting for the Gunners" by Arsenal FC and Tippa Irie
* "(Si Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star" by Bill Wyman (Trafalgar Square, Battersea)
* "Sidney Street" by Chris Difford
* "Sid's Song" by Inner City Unit ("In London town where I was born")
* "Sights and Sounds of London Town" by Richard Thompson
* "Sightsee M.C.!" by Big Audio Dynamite
* "Signs" by Snoop Dogg ft Justin Timberlake
* "Sing A Song of London" by Stanley Holloway
* "Singers Hampstead Home" by Microdisney
* "Sir Keith at Lambeth" by Mount Vernon Arts Lab
* "Sirens of Acre Lane" by Genaside II (Brixton)
* "Silvertown" by Cockney Rejects
* "Silvertown Blues" by Mark Knopfler
* "Simply Unstoppable" by Tinie Tempah
* "Sister Rosetta" by Alabama 3 (Brixton)
* "Sitting in London City" by Mel Collins
* "Six Bells Stampede" by Wally Fawkes And The Troglodytes (The Six Bells was a jazz venue in London)
* "Skeleton Horse" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins (in The Highbury Working)
* "Sketches From The National Gallery" by Louis Bellson
* "Skyline – West One" by Syd Dale
* "Skylon" by 808 State
* "Slam" by Humanoid (Brian Dougans)
* "Slim Slow Slider," by Van Morrison ("Saw you walking down by Ladbroke Grove..")
* "Sleepless in London" by Neon Jungle
* "Sloane Square" by Simon Fisher Turner
* "Sloane Street Ladies" by Arthur Macrae and Richard Addinsell
* "Slow Down at the Castle" by Saint Etienne
* "Small Town Girl" by Good Shoes (References Raynes Park High School)
* "Smashing Time" by Television Personalities
* "The Smile" by David Essex
* "Smithers-Jones" by The Jam (Waterloo Line)
* "Snooker Loopy" by Chas & Dave
* "Snowbound On The South Bank" by Saint Etienne
* "Snowed In At Wheeler Street" by Kate Bush
* "So Long, London" by Taylor Swift
* "So Rotton" by Blak Twang (London – West, East, South, North and NW)
* "So So" by Gary Go
* "So you'd better stay with me at Mocha, and be number 5 0 3. You'll find me the wittiest joker from Greenwich to the Caspian Sea..." by Alfred Cellier and Albert Jarret
* "Soho" by Bay City Rollers
* "Soho" by Bert Jansch and John Renbourn[2]
* "Soho" by Brand X
* "Soho" by Fats Waller (from The London Suite)
* "Soho" by The Hangovers
* "Soho" by Incognito
* "Soho" by Ian Whitcomb
* "Soho" by Jools Holland
* "Soho" by L.A. Guns
* "Soho" by Light of the World
* "Soho" by Steve Smith and Vital Information
* "Soho" by Tanja Berg (singer has article on German wiki)
* "Soho" by UK Subs
* "Soho A Go Go" by The Members
* "Soho All Over Again" by Robb Johnson
* "Soho Alley" by The Fixx
* "Soho Blues" by Acker Bilk
* "Soho Blues" by Reg Owen
* "Soho Cab Ride" by Ballistic Brothers
* "Soho Code" by Deep Blue (musician)
* "Soho Disco" by Groove Armada
* "Soho Dreams" by Secret Affair
* "Soho Fair" by Bert Weedon
* "Soho Forenoons" by John Ireland (from Three London Pieces)
* "Soho Girls" by Pork Dukes
* "Soho Heart" by Robb Johnson
* "Soho Jack" by Paul Brett
* "Soho Mojo" by Spyro Gyra
* "Soho (Needless to say)" by Al Stewart[11]
* "Soho Saturday Night Shuffle" by Bill Shepherd (arranger for the Bee Gees)
* "Soho Solitaire" by Peter Miller
* "Soho Square" by Kirsty MacColl[2]
* "Soho Square" by Lindisfarne
* "Soho St Ives Tangier" by The Focus Group
* "Soho Stripper" by Dick Hyman
* "Soho Strut" by Brand New Heavies
* "Soho Strut" by Secret Affair
* "Soho Studio" by the People Band (featuring Terry Day amongst others)
* "Solitary Confinement" by The Members
* "Solo in Soho" by Phil Lynott
* "Someone in London" by Godsmack
* "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" by Elton John ("East End nights")
* "Somers Town" by Jasmine Minks
* "Somerstown" by The Parkinsons
* "Somewhere In London" by Steeleye Span
* "Son Of 'There's No Place Like Homerton'" by Hatfield and the North
* "Song for Clay (Disappear Here)" by Bloc Party
* "Song for Ruth Ellis" by Adam and the Ants ("Violence in Hampstead")
* "Song for South Kensington" by Analogy
* "Songs And Cries of London Town" by Bob Chilcott
* "Sonny's Lettah" by Linton Kwesi Johnson
* "Sorted for E's and Wizz" by Pulp
* "Sound Bwoy Burial" by Gant (an alias of 187 Lockdown)
* "Sound of Swinging London" by Glen Matlock and The Philistines
* "Sound of the Suburbs" by The Members
* "Soundlife London" by The Clarke & Ware Experiment (Vince Clarke and Martyn Ware)
* "Sounds From the Street" by The Jam
* "Sounds of London" by Rick & Pam Maskell
* "South Bank" by Colin Towns Mask Quintet
* "South Circular Dub" by King Tubby
* "South East London Skank" by Basque Dub Foundation
* "South London Boroughs" by Burial
* "South London Dub Symphony" by Jah Wobble
* "South London Forever" by Florence and the Machine
* "South London Safari" by Shingai Shoniwa
* "South of the River" by Mica Paris
* "South Side of the River" by Gary Holton
* "Southbank Song" by Dan Melchior
* "Southern Belles in London Sing" by The Faint
* "Southside Tenements" by David Knopfler
* "Souvenir of London" by Procol Harum
* "Space Angel Station" by Drum Club
* "Spanish Place" by Jah Wobble & Bill Sharpe
* "Speakeasy" by Pat Travers
* "Speakeasy" by The Who (about the Speakeasy Club in 1960s/1970s London)
* "Speaker's Corner" by Haven
* "Speakers Corner" by Jools Holland
* "Speakers Corner" by Parchment
* "Spencer Road Rock" by Elroy Bailey (a member of Black Slate)
* "SPG" by Red Alert
* "Spirit" by Razorlight
* "The Spirit of Cable Street" by Cornelius Cardew
* "Spirits By The Thames" by Jah Wobble
* "Spitalfields" by Red Snapper
* "Sports Line London" by London Brass
* "Springtime in Piccadilly Circus" by Johnny Scott
* "Springtime in Whitechapel" by Carol Grimes
* "Stagger" by Underworld
* "Stairway To Croydon" by Dan Melchior
* "Stand Up Tall" by Dizzee Rascal[1]
* "Stanley (Does It All)" by Scatman Crothers
* "Stanwell" by Action Pact!
* "Starlight Melody (Waterloo Bridge)" by Nini Rosso
* "Stardom in Acton" by Pete Townshend
* "A State Procession (Buckingham Palace)" by Albert Ketelbey
* "Statuesque" by Sleeper
* "Stavordale Road, N5" by The Nips (A street in Highbury)
* "Stay Free" by The Clash (Brixton [Prison], Crown (& Sceptre) [Streatham Hill])
* "Step It Down Shepherd's Bush" by Ranking Joe
* "Step To Me" (Real Club Mix) by Mantronix
* "Stick To London Town" by Ella Shields
* "Sticks Vs. Smoke" by Dan Melchior (Broke Revue)
* "The Stoke Newington 8" by The Apostles
* "Stompin' At Decca" by Django Reinhardt
* "Stone Thames" by Big Audio Dynamite
* "Stoned on Denmark Street" by New Jersey Kings (an alias of the James Taylor Quartet)
* "Stop This Crazy Thing" by Coldcut
* "Straight To Stereo (Tokyo-London)" by Dr Calculus (featured Stephen Duffy)
* "Strange Tale of Madame Occhahontas and the Westminister Dreadlocks" by David Rudder
* "Strange Town" by The Jam[2]
* "Streatham" by Dave
* "Street Fighting Man" by The Rolling Stones
* "The Streets of Ladbroke Grove" by Delroy Washington
* "Streets of London" by B.B. Seaton
* "Streets of London" by Clover
* "Streets of London" by Ralph McTell[2]
* "Streets Of San Fran Brixton" by Genaside II
* "Streets of Whitechapel" by JC Carroll
* "Street Tuff" by Rebel MC
* "Strip Show" by Doll By Doll
* "Strolling Down The Strand" by Fred Godfrey and Leslie Sarony
* "Strolling in Hyde Park" by Byron Lee and the Dragonaires
* "Strummin'" by Chas & Dave (Brixton, Barnet)
* "Struttin' In The Strand" by Harry Roy and his Mayfair Hotel Orchestra
* "Studio 51" by Downliners Sect
* "Success" by Sigue Sigue Sputnik (Savile Row etc.)
* "Sugarhouse Lane" by Saint Etienne
* "Sugar & Spice" by Madness ("We bought a flat in Golders Green")
* "Suicide on Downing Street" by Tim Finn
* "Suite in C (Including Turnham Green, Here I Am And Others)" by McDonald & Giles
* "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits[2]
* "Sunday" by Bloc Party
* "Sunday Street" by Squeeze
* "Sunny Goodge Street" by Donovan[2]
* "Sunday Morning Camden Town" by Louis Philippe
* "Sunday Morning in Petticoat Lane" by Maria Dallas
* "Sunny South Kensington" by Donovan
* "Sunny Street, W14" by Sutherland Brothers Band
* "Sunset Boulevard" by Kim Fowley
* "Supper at the Savoy" by Raymond Scott
* "Supreme" by Robbie Williams ("All the lonely hearts in London caught a plane and flew away")
* "Surfin' SW12" by The Monochrome Set
* "Susan's Soho Parties" by Bill Pritchard
* "Suspicious Eyes" by The Rakes
* "Suzy" by Benny Hill ("Now I wandered down into Soho")
* "Svata Parlan I London (Black Pearl in London)" by Thomas Di Leva
* "SW2" by DJ Maxi Jazz
* "SW4" by Gail Ann Dorsey
* "SW5" by Mike Silver
* "The Swallows of London Town" by Autumn Defense
* "Swan Wharf" by Saint Etienne
* "Swedish Sin" by Billie the Vision and the Dancers
* "Sweet London Lady" by Lou Christie
* "Sweet Thames" by Vivian Ellis
* "Sweet Thames Flow Softly" by Ewan MacColl ft. Planxty
* "Sweet Thing" by Van Morrison
* "Swimming Over London" by King's Singers
* "Swing Big Ben" by Joe Daniels (jazz drummer) & his Hot Shots
* "Swingin' At Maida Vale" by Benny Carter
* "Swingin' Beefeater" by The Tornados
* "Swinging In The Rain" by Norman Vaughan
* "Swinging London" by Barbara Windsor
* "Swinging London" by The Cleaners from Venus
* "Swinging London" by London
* "Swinging London" by The Magnetic Fields
* "Swinging London" by The Pretenders
* "Swinging London Town" by Girls Aloud
* "Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres" by Al Stewart
* "Symphony No 2 A London Symphony"[I] by Ralph Vaughan Williams (includes "Hampstead Heath on a August Bank Holiday Sunday" and "Bloomsbury Square on a November Afternoon")
* "Symphony No 104 in D Major (London)" by Joseph Haydn

## T

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* "Take It" by Flowered Up
* "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" by Florrie Forde
* "Take Me Back To London" by Ruby
* "Take Me Down To Kensington High" by Bill Shepherd (arranger for the Bee Gees)
* "Take Me in a Taxi, Joe" by Bennett Scott
* "Taking After Dear Old Dad" by Noël Coward ("Later on I meet a pal and stroll with him along the Mall")
* "The Taking of Peckham 123" by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
* "The Tale of Two Cities" by Semprini
* "Taste of Aggro" by The Barron Knights ("We're from Catford", etc.)
* "Tea at the Cafe De Paris" by Cayenne
* "The Tears Shed in London Tonight" by R.P. Weston and Bert Lee
* "Techno Fan" by The Wombats
* "Teddington Green" by John Scott (composer)
* "Tell Them You're A Londoner" by Fred Godfrey and Billy Williams
* "Tell Me When The Whistle Blows" by Elton John
* "Temple Bar" by Gazebo (musician)
* "Temple Bar" by Jools Holland
* "Thames" by Jah Wobble
* "The Thames" by Starsailor
* "Thames – A Tempo" by Betty Roe
* "Thames At High Water" by Miaow
* "The Thames Hornpipe" by Patrick Street
* "Thames Lighterman" by Alasdair Clayre
* "Thames Walk" by Don Rendell
* "Thameslick" by Amen Andrews
* "That'll Be Very Useful Later On" by Noël Coward ("Mary had them watched from Charing Cross to Golders Green")
* "That's My Impression" by Pet Shop Boys (references the Serpentine)
* "That's Nice" by Neil Christian
* "That's What I Like" by Chas & Dave
* "The Theatre" by Pet Shop Boys
* "Theatre of the Absurd" by Ian Hunter
* "There are Places on the Map that I Never want to see, such as London (on the Thames)..." by Adrian Ross and Basil Hood (from the musical play The Girls of Gottenberg)
* "There Is A Greenford Far Away (Medley)" by Johnny G
* "There's A Beat Goin' On" by Londonbeat
* "There's A Lovely Lake in London" by Tolchard Evans
* "There's A Place Called London" by Buddy Greco
* "There's No Place Like London" by Shirley Bassey
* "They Call me the Belle of Dollis Hill" from Little Jack Sheppard
* "They're Changing The Guard at Buckingham Palace" by Billy Cotton
* "This Is A London Song" by The Union
* "This Is London" by Akala
* "This Is London" by DJ Vortex & Arpa's Dream
* "This Is London" by Don McGlashan
* "This Is London" by Greedy Beat Syndicate
* "This Is London" by Tecno Rappers
* "This Is London" by The Times
* "This London Bridge" by Cilla Black
* "This World Over" by XTC
* "Thornton Heath" by Nairobi Meets Mad Professor
* "Three Juvenile Delinquents" by Noël Coward ("Once we pinched a Cadillac and drove her from the Marble Arch to Kew")
* "Three White Feathers" by Noël Coward (Ealing girl makes good)
* "Tied Up Too Tight" by Hard-Fi[1]
* "Tiger Tiger" by Paul Quinn
* "Tighten Up, Vol. 88" by Big Audio Dynamite
* "Till the Lights of London Shine Again" by Tommie Connor and Edward Pola
* "Time for Heroes" by The Libertines[2]
* "Time of Our Life" by Jeff Lynne's ELO
* "A Tiny Flat in Soho Square" by Cicely Courtneidge and Harold French
* "Tired of England" by Dirty Pretty Things
* "Tiswas" by Sleaford Mods
* "Titanic Reaction" by 999 ("going round on the Circle Line")
* "To Battersea with Bunches" by The Orb
* "To Cry You a Song" by Jethro Tull
* "To God; An Anthem sung in the Chappell at Whitehall" by Betty Roe
* "To Heathrow Cargo, A Parcel" by Jah Wobble
* "To London" music by Franz Lehar; lyrics by Harold Atteridge and Paul M. Potter
* "To London With You" by Al Jones
* "To The Winter" by Brett Anderson ("So I went and sat in Crystal Palace, by the plastic dinosaurs")
* "To Wimbledon With Love" by The Wombles
* "Tom Jones International" by Tom Jones
* "Tom O'Bedlam" by Steeleye Span (traditional folk ballad)
* "Tomorrow Night" by The Front Lawn
* "Tonight in Camden Town" by John Kerr
* "Too Much Brandy" by The Streets (mentions a tube train and the Dog Star pub, Brixton)
* "Toon Army – Going To Wembley" by Mungo Jerry
* "Tooting Bec" by Tim Souster
* "Tooting Bec Rape Case" by England
* "Tooting Bec Wreck" by Hanoi Rocks
* "Top of the Morning" by Noël Coward ("London is shiny and free, that is, as free as a Democracy can be")
* "Torn on the Platform" by Jack Peñate[1]
* "Tottenham Burned" by Robb Johnson
* "Tottenham Rock" by U Brown
* "Tower Hill" by Haydn Wood (from London Landmarks Suite)
* "Tower Hill" by Jonathan Coe & Louis Philippe
* "Tower of London" by ABC[2]
* "Tower Block Rock (W1)" by Twenty Flight Rockers
* "Tower Bridge" by Spike Milligan
* "Tower Warders, Under Orders" by Gilbert & Sullivan (from The Yeoman of the Guard)
* "Towers of London" by XTC
* "Trafalgar" by Bee Gees
* "Trafalgar Square" by Guy Bolton, Fred Thompson (writer), Douglas Furber, Martin Broones and Graham John
* "Trafalgar Square" by Jonathan Wilson
* "Trafalgar Square" by Huggy Bear
* "Trafalgar Square" by Pablo Gad
* "Trafalgar Square Dance" by Leslie Crowther
* "Traffic in Fleet Street" by Nick Heyward
* "Trailer Load of Girls" by Shabba Ranks
* "Traitors Gate" by Blitzkrieg
* "Traitors Gate" by Chelsea
* "Traitors Gate" by More
* "Trams of Old London" by Robyn Hitchcock
* "Transmetropolitan" by The Pogues
* "Transport of Delight" by Flanders and Swann
* "The Trees in Grosvenor Square" by Johnny Scott
* "Trellick Tower" by Emmy the Great
* "Tried by the Centre Court" by Michael Flanders & Donald Swann
* "Trinity Wharf" by Saint Etienne
* "Trip To London" by Stockton's Wing
* "Tropical London" by Rancid
* "Trouble on Oxford Street" by Skinny Lister
* "Trouble on the Westside" by Tony Touch featuring Slick Rick (Mitcham)
* "Truro Road" by Juan María Solare
* "T-Shirt Weather in the Manor" by Kano
* "Tube Disasters" by Flux of Pink Indians
* "Tube Train" by The Iveys
* "Tube Train Blues" by Brunning Sunflower Blues Band (featuring Bob Brunning)
* "Tulse Hill Nights" by 999
* "Turned Away" by Audio Bullys
* "Turnpike Lane" by Pete Moore (composer)
* "Twas in Hyde Park, Beside the Row" from The Emerald Isle
* "Twenty-Four Minutes from Tulse Hill" by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
* "Twickenham Ferry" by Theo Marzials
* "Twilight (Uxbridge Road)" by Anthony Moore
* "Two Cockney Kids" by Leslie Bricusse (from Three Hats for Lisa)
* "Two Criminal Points of View" by McCarthy
* "Two Ol' Girls From Camden Town" by Chas & Dave
* "Twyford Down" by Galliano (band) (references the M25)
* "Tyburn" by The Pack (featuring Kirk Brandon)
* "Tyburn" by The Wall
* "Tyburn Tree" by The Men They Couldn't Hang
* "The Tyburn Tree" by Marc Almond

## U

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* "UFO's over Leytonstone" by Squarepusher
* "'Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?" by Alexei Sayle (the Thames Barrier, Bermondsey, Peckham, Stanmore, Fulham, etc.)
* "The Um-Ber-El-La-Mender" by George Leybourne and Alfred Lee ("Standing in the Strand with cigar-lights")
* "Un Dimanche A Londres" by Edith Piaf
* "Uncommercial Road" by Jah Wobble
* "Under London Lights" by The Peddlers
* "Under New Management (parts 1&2)" by Barron Knights
* "Under The Gun" by The Killers ("Stupid on the streets of London")
* "Under The Westway" by Blur[3]
* "Undercover Anarchist" by Silver Bullet
* "Underground Music" by Ivor Biggun ("On London Transport, I used to do my shopping")
* "The Underground Train" by Lord Kitchener[2]
* "Underneath the Arches" by Bud Flanagan (the Arches were railway arches near Charing Cross)
* "Unemployed in Summertime" by Emiliana Torrini (Primrose Hill)
* "Unfortunately" by McCarthy ("Let us go to a better town.. otherwise we'll go to the Thames")
* "Up Against the Wall" by Tom Robinson Band (Whitehall/Brixton/Notting Hill Gate/County Hall)
* "Up at the House of Cecil Sharp" by Bob & Carole Pegg (part of Mr Fox)
* "Up on the Catwalk" by Simple Minds (Brixton)
* "Up The Bracket" by The Libertines[1]
* "Up The Elephant And Round The Castle" by Keith Emerson & Jim Davidson
* "Up The Junction" by Manfred Mann
* "Up The Junction" by Squeeze[1][2]
* "Up The Spurs" by The Cheers
* "Upfield" by Billy Bragg[2]
* "Upon Hilly Fields" by Lucky Soul (Brockley/Lewisham)
* "Upper Clapton Dance" by Professor Green[2]
* "Upper Osterley" by Norma Tanega
* "Upminster Kid" by Kilburn and the High Roads (Romford)
* "Upper Norwood Girls" by Russ Abbot
* "Uxbridge Stomp" by Ray Foxley

## V

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* "V Thirteen" by Big Audio Dynamite
* "Vagt Ved Kongens Slot (Vor Dem Buckingham Palast)" by Ulla Pia
* "Valley Floyd Road" by Charlton Athletic
* "The Vampire of Highgate" by Marc Almond
* "The Vauxhall Labyrinth" by Mount Vernon Arts Lab
* "Vauxhall Tavern Strip Medley" by Christopher Gunning
* "Vauxhall to Lambeth Bridge" by Julie Driscoll ft Brian Auger and the Trinity
* "Victoria Gardens" by Madness
* "Victoria Park" by Beggar and Co
* "Victoria Sight" (i) by King Tubby
* "Victorian Doll" by The Cleaners from Venus (Islington, Clerkenwell, Kensal Rise..)
* "A View From Her Room" by Weekend
* "Violence Grows" by Fatal Microbes
* "Violet Hill" by Coldplay (St John's Wood)
* "The Vision of Peregrine Worsthorne" by McCarthy (Fleet Street)
* "Visitors London" by Betty Roe
* "Voices in Westminster Abbey" by John Mills-Cockell
* "Vor Dem Buckingham Palast" by Peggy March

## W

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* "W9" by Baby Ford
* "W11 Blues" by Transvision Vamp
* "W11 To Whangaroa Bay" by Tex Pistol (an alias of Ian Morris)
* "Waiting for the 7.18" by Bloc Party
* "Waiting for the Worms" by Pink Floyd (from The Wall, narrates a journey from Brixton to Westminster)
* "Waiting in Walthamstow" by The Cranberries
* "Walk of Life" by Spice Girls (from Spiceworld 1997)
* "Walk to Regents Park" by John Murphy
* "Walking Back To Waterloo" by Bee Gees
* "The Walking Birds of Carnaby" by Ross Bagdasarian
* "Walking Down Brick Lane" by Juan María Solare
* "Walking in London" by Concrete Blonde
* "Walking Talking London Blues" by Meic Stevens
* "Walnut Tree Walk" by Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin
* "Wake Up London!" by The Vulcans (TV Theme)
* "Wapping Steps" by Jools Holland
* "Wardour Street Waltz" by Cy Grant and Bill Le Sage
* "Warwick Avenue" by Duffy[2]
* "Waterloo" by Dream Academy
* "Waterloo Bridge" by Jools Holland
* "Waterloo Bridge" by Ted Heath (bandleader)
* "Waterloo Lily" by Caravan
* "Waterloo Road" by Jason Crest
* "Waterloo Rock" by Don Reco (Rico Rodriguez)
* "Waterloo Station" by Jane Birkin (lyrics by Rufus Wainwright)
* "Waterloo Sunset" by The Kinks[1][2]
* "Waterloo Walk" by John Dankworth
* "We All Follow Man Utd" by Manchester United FC
* "We Are London" by Madness (The Liberty of Norton Folgate album)
* "We Are The Firm" by Cockney Rejects
* "We Are The Lambeth Boys" by Johnny Dankworth
* "We Are Wimbledon" by Wimbledon FC
* "We Call It Acieeed" by D-Mob (about the London Acid House scene mentions the "Spectrum", "Future" and "Shoom" Acid House parties).
* "We Got The Juice" by Freeez
* "We Live in London Baby" by Roy Ayers
* "We Live Our Lives in City Streets" by Noël Coward ("The London traffic's steady roar can stir our hearts a great deal more")
* "We Shall Not Be Moved" by Liverpool F.C.
* "We the Kings of Orient" by Leyton Orient F.C.
* "Welcome" by The Who
* "Welcome 2 London" by Sandeeno & Joseph Cotton
* "Welcome to London Town" by Julian Dawson
* "Welcome to London Town" by Plainsong
* "Wellington Barracks" by Haydn Wood (from Snapshots of London Suite)
* "Wellington Goes To Waterloo" by The Wombles
* "Wembley Stadium" by Ken Mackintosh
* "Wembley Way" by Albert Elms
* "Wembley Wembley" by Special Duties
* "We're Going to the Country" by Lionel Bart
* "Werewolf (Loose in London)" by Meco
* "Werewolves in London" by London
* "Werewolves of London" by Paul Roland
* "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon[1][2]
* "West Eleven" [I] by The Cimarons
* "West End" by Thomas Leer
* "West End Girl" by Darryl Read
* "West End Girls" by Pet Shop Boys[1][2]
* "West End Lane" by Workshy
* "West End Pad" by Cathy Dennis
* "West End of Park Lane" by Hot Chocolate
* "West End Riot" by The Living End
* "West End Story" by Dub Pistols
* "West London" by Charles Ives
* "West London Ghosts" by Guiye Frayo
* "West of Carnaby" by Sounds Orchestral ft. Johnny Pearson
* "West of London Town" by The Bolshoi
* "West One" by Rupie Edwards
* "West One (Shine on Me)" by The Ruts
* "West Side Boys" by Cockney Rejects
* "Westend Stars" by Vice Squad
* "Westminster" by Eric Coates (from London Suite)
* "Westminster Abbey" by (from Blondel)
* "Westminster Abbey" by Henry Purcell
* "Westminster And Wandsworth" by Blyth Power
* "Westminster Bridge" by Mike Westbrook
* "Westminster Bridge" by Murray Gold
* "Westminster Carillon" by Carson Cooman
* "Westminster Chimes" by Sonic Youth
* "Westminster Pier To Greenwich" by Instant Sunshine
* "Westminster Waltz"[I] by Robert Farnon (recorded by Russ Conway among many others)
* "Westway" by Baby Ford
* "Westway" by Dub Pistols
* "Wet Day in London" by Phil Daniels And The Cross
* "We've Got the Juice" by Derek B
* "Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)" by Wham! (full version)
* "What A Day in London" from Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
* "What A Waste" by Ian Dury ("Fulham Broadway station")
* "What Are The Odds Today (Lloyds of London)" (from Around the World in 80 Days)
* "What Are We Gonna Get 'Er Indoors?" by Dennis Waterman and George Cole
* "Whatever Happened To Thames Beat" by The Times
* "What's Happening To Old London Town" by Harry Fowler
* "When a Fellow Loves a Girl in London Town" (from the musical comedy Havana)
* "When Finchley Castle Falls" by Robb Johnson
* "When I Grow Up I Want To Be..." by Television Personalities (Chelsea Embankment)
* "When I'm Strolling Around Mayfair" by Bill Shepherd (arranger for the Bee Gees)
* "When the Guards Do the Birdcage Walk" by Fred Godfrey and John P. Harrington
* "When The Lights Go Out in London" by The Charlatans
* "When the Lights Go Up in London" by Hubert Gregg
* "When Tottenham Burned" by Robb Johnson
* "When We Were Girls Together" by Noël Coward ("Oh how the gallants of Battersea Rise followed us round with lascivious eyes")
* "When You Come Back To Me" by Jason Donovan
* "When you go Over to London, as Lots of Germans do..." by Adrian Ross and Basil Hood (from the musical play The Girls of Gottenberg)
* "When You Hear Big Ben" by Vera Lynn
* "While London Sleeps" by Mount Vernon Arts Lab
* "While London Sleeps" by Roy Hudd
* "While London's Days Increase" by Tim Hollier
* "While London's Fast Asleep" by Harry Dacre
* "White City" by Bill Pritchard
* "White City" by The Pogues
* "White City Blues" by Ian Carr's Nucleus
* "White City Boys" by Chiefs of Relief
* "White City Fighting" by Pete Townshend
* "White City Lights" by Roger Daltrey
* "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais" by The Clash
* "White Post Lane" by Saint Etienne
* "White Riot" by The Clash (about the 1976 Notting Hill Carnival)
* "Whitechapel" by Fats Waller (from The London Suite)
* "Whitechapel" by SCUM
* "Whitechapel Mound" by Cathal Coughlan
* "Whitehall Farce" by Instant Sunshine
* "Whitehall Scandal" by Dennis Bovell
* "Whitton High Street" by Robb Johnson
* "Wimbledon" by Dave Warner
* "Wimpy Bar Blues" by Ram John Holder
* "The Winter Of '79" by Tom Robinson Band
* "Who Are You" by The Who
* "Who Dares Wins" by The Streets
* "Who Got the Funk?" by The Streets
* "Whoppi King" by Laurel Aitken
* "Why Can't We Have the Sea in London?" by Fred Godfrey and Billy Williams
* "Why London" by Eskobar
* "Why Should I Mind" by Tom Robinson Band
* "Whyteleafe" by Saint Etienne
* "The Wickedest Sound" by Rebel MC
* "Wigmore Extempore" by Stan Tracey
* "Wild West End" by Dire Straits
* "Wild Women" by Benny Hill ("Now I was in a Chelsea bar one day")
* "Willesden Green" by The Kinks
* "Willesden To Cricklewood" by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
* "William And Mary Op. 106" by Derek Bourgeois
* "Willin' (Rock Against Racism)" by The Cimarons ([aka "Harlesden Rock"])
* "Wimbledon Idyll" by Kit and The Widow
* "Wimbledon Lawns" by Jo Durie
* "Wimbledon Music" by Amalgam (featuring Trevor Watts)
* "Wimbledon Parts" by Lol Coxhill and Steve Miller
* "Wimbledon Sunset" by The Wombles
* "Wimpole Street Song" from Robert and Elizabeth
* "Winchmore Hill" by Juan María Solare
* "The Wine Bars of Old Hampstead Town" by Alexei Sayle (folk song parody)
* "Wine, Women An' Song" by Whitesnake (Fleet Street)
* "Wings (London/L.A.)" by Randy Edelman
* "Winter Winds" by Mumford and Sons ("as the winter winds litter London with lonely hearts")
* "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" by R. P. Weston and Bert Lee ("In the Tower of London large as life..")
* "Without You" by The Feeling
* "The Womble Bashers of Walthamstow" by Grimms
* "Wombledon Sunset" by The Wombles
* "The Wombling Song" by The Wombles
* "Wombling USA" by The Wombles (Wimbledon)
* "Women In Uniform" by Iron Maiden
* "The Wonderful World of Abbey Road" by David Peel
* "Wondering" by Dirty Pretty Things ("and it occurred to me/I think on Lambeth Road..")
* "Wood Green" by Alex Welsh & His Band
* "Wood Green Walk" by Juan María Solare
* "Wood Wharf Gumbo" by Aviator
* "The Worker" by Fischer Z (Waterloo)
* "Working Mother" by Martyn Joseph
* "The World is Coming to London" by Billy Cotton
* "Worldwide (London Groove)" by The Roots
* "Wormwood Scrubs" by Dominic Behan
* "Wormwood Scrubs - Dawn" by Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band
* "The Wormwood Scrubs Tango" by Spike Milligan
* "The Worst Pies in London" by Stephen Sondheim
* "Would you care to settle? Where it is going to be? ... Oh! I bar the Registrar, Westminster for me! ... Shall we state the happy.." by Arthur Wimperis and Max Pemberton
* "Wreckx Shop" by Wreckx-n-Effect featuring Apache Indian
* "A Wrong Turn and Raindrops" by The Field Mice
* "Wrottersley Road" by Nick Nicely
* "Wurzel Fudge in London Town" by Ian Whitcomb

## X

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* "XR2" by MIA[1]

## Y

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* "Ya Ga Ya Ga A Tramp" by Trinity
* "Ye Citizens of London" from Doris (opera)
* "The Year She Spent in England" by Weddings Parties Anything ("And the treasures found in Camden..")
* "The Yeomen of the Guard Overture" [I] by Arthur Sullivan
* "Yo Go Monarchs" by London Monarchs
* "Yonatan Sa HaBaita" by Oshik Levi (Hebrew: יונתן סע הביתה, translation: "Yonatan, Go Home")
* "You Broke My Heart In 17 Places" by Tracey Ullman (Shepherd's Bush)
* "You Can Judge A Book By Its Cover" by Saint Etienne (SW14, Hanover Square etc.)
* "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by The Rolling Stones (Chelsea drug store)
* "You Can't Do It in London" by Overlord X
* "You From London" by Sault
* "You Lift Me Up" by Everything but the Girl ("And the trains run late, I'm stuck at Notting Hill Gate..")
* "You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties" by Jona Lewie ("This was at some do in Palmers Green..")
* "The Young and the Old" by Madness "All the old songs, the cockney routines.."
* "Young London" by Angels & Airwaves
* "Youth of Eglington" by Black Uhuru ("youth of Brixton..")
* "You're In A Bad Way" by Saint Etienne "A man could lose himself in London.."
* "You're So London" by Julie Andrews And Carol Burnett
* "You're The One For Me, Fatty" by Morrissey ("All over Battersea, some hope and some despair..")
* "You've Got Her London" by Pierce Turner

## See also

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* List of music videos set in London

Portals:

* Lists
* London

## References

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6. ^ a b c d "nthposition online magazine: 'Angel passage' by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins". 24 November 2004. Archived from the original on 24 November 2004. Retrieved 20 May 2014.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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8. ^ The lyric states: "Une nuit que j'tais a me morfondre, dans quelque pub anglais du coeur de Londres"
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* Readers recommend: songs about London, The Guardian, 7 July 2006
* Songs about Regent's Park and Primrose Hill
* Songs about London and Europe
* The London Nobody Sings