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This is a list of songs about London. Instrumental pieces are tagged with an uppercase "I", or a lowercase "i" for quasi-instrumental including non-lyrics voice samples.
Included are:
Songs titled after London, or a location or feature of the city.
Songs whose lyrics are set in London.
Excluded are:
Songs where London is simply name-checked along with various other cities (such as "New York, London, Paris, Munich", lyrics of "Pop Muzik" by M).
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"22 Grand Job" by The Rakes ("Down to Old Street Thursday night" - Old Street is in EC1)
"59 Lyndhurst Grove" by Pulp
"A Bomb in Wardour Street" by The Jam
"A Maid In Bedlam" (traditional) - Bedlam was the name for the Bethlem Royal Hospital, London's first psychiatric 'hospital'
"Abhainn an t-Sluaigh" (The Crowded River) by Runrig
"Albion" by Babyshambles which namechecks various London districts
"The Angel Highbury" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury
"Any Old Iron" (traditional)
"Archway People" by Saint Etienne title is a reference to the Archway area of London
"Brompton Oratory" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
"Camera Eye, The" by Rush
"Charlotte Street" by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
"Chelsea Monday" by Marillion in Script for a Jester's Tear *
"Cooperman (Sooper) Cooperman" - The Almost Legendary "Funky" Lol Ross, about a Leyton Orient player, begins, 'There's a man at Brisbane Road...'
"Dead End Street" by The Kinks - about a bedsit in Kentish Town
"Diamond In The Dark" by Mystery Jets, includes the line 'We would live on Delancey Street', a road in Camden
"Down In The Tube Station At Midnight" by The Jam
"Electric Avenue" by Eddie Grant about a street in Brixton
"Fair Maid of Islington" (traditional) At the time of the song Islington was a village outside London
"Fourteen Hour Technicolour Dream" by The Syn about Allie Pallie, 1967
"Goldhawk Road" by Dustin's Bar Mitzvah
"The Greater London Radio" by Hefner
"Hairdresser on Fire" by Morrissey - a song about a hairdresser in "London, giddy London...home of the brash, outrageous, and free"
"In London So Fair" (traditional)
"Itchycoo Park" by the Small Faces about Little Ilford Park
"Lady, That's My Skull!" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury
"Lambeth Walk" by Noel Gay from Me & My Girl, 1937
"Lavender Cry" (traditional) Lavendar sellers song
"Leave The Capitol" by The Fall - Mark E Smith's plea to "exit this Roman shell" and return to Manchester
"Let's All Go Down The Strand" (traditional?)
"Leyton Orient Scored More Goals Than Any Other Fourth Division Team in '88/'89" - The Almost Legendary "Funky" Lol Ross
"Life In London" by Mighty Terror from the album "Calypso @ Dirty Jim's"
"London" by Eoin Woods on Everytime (Irish musician in Boston in early 1990s)
"London Bridge" (traditional)
"London City" (traditional) A version of Barbara Allen
"London Hornpipe" I (traditional)
"London Leatherboys" by Accept
"London's Burning" (traditional)
"London's Brilliant Parade" by Elvis Costello, a different song to the previous entry.
"Lonely Hearts" by Richard and Linda Thompson
"Lost Rivers of London" (aka "London's Lost Rivers") by Coil in Unnatural History III - *
"Maid of Tottenham" (traditional) At the time Tottenham was a village outside of London
"Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner, (That I Love London So)" by Hubert Gregg
"Mill Hill Self Hate Club" by Edward Ball
"My Kitten Went to London" by Kid 606
"My Tom of Bedlam" (Bedlam Boys)
"No.1 With A Bullet" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury *
"The Oak and the Ash" (North Country Maid) (traditional)
"Oranges and Lemons" (Bells of St. Clements) (traditional)
"Pepper's Ghost" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins in The Highbury Working- each song about a time of Highbury
"Powis Square" by Ry Cooder (from the Performance soundtrack)
"Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green" by (traditional)
"A Rainy Day in London" by Paris
"Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3" by Ian Dury
"See My Friends" by The Kinks ('They'll cross the river...' Thames)
"Sheila" by Jamie T (Drunk she stumbles down by the river/Screams calling "London!")
"Slim Slow Slider," by Van Morrison ('Saw you walking down by Ladbroke Grove this morning...')
"Sorted For E's And Whizz" by Pulp
"Southern Belles in London Sing" by The Faint
"Sunny South Kensington" by Donovan
"They're Changing Guards at Buckingham Palace" by A. A.Milne
"Towers of London" by XTC
"Twenty-Four Minutes from Tulse Hill" by Carter USM
"Up The Bracket" by The Libertines which occurs on the Cally Road (Caledonian Road Islington N1) and the Vallance Road (Bethnal Green E2)
"Walking Down the Kings Road" by Squire
"The Wine Bars of Old Hampstead Town" by Alexei Sayle (folk song parody)
"You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties" by Jona Lewie, "...This was at some do in Palmers Green..."
"Your Embrace" by Shakira, "...That without you this place looks like London..."
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