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).

0–9[]

  • "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 (musical))
  • "1940 London" by Solitaire
  • "1st Transmission" by Earthling (band)
  • "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
  • "4AM in Leicester Square" by Jaguar
  • "4.50 From Paddington" by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley
  • "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
  • "853-5937" by Squeeze

A[]

  • "'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 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 (refers to numerous London districts)
  • "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 will not make it how it was")
  • "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 (musician)
  • "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 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[]

  • "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 (band) (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 (bandleader)
  • "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
  • "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'")
  • "Ballad of Torrens Street" by
  • "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 (British band)
  • "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 (about Carol White)
  • "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
  • "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 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 (orchestra leader)
  • "Big Ben Boogie" by Winifred Atwell
  • "Big Ben Dub" by Mad Professor & Scientist (musician)
  • "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
  • "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
  • "Black Boy Lane" by Babyshambles
  • "Black Camels of Lavender Hill" by Kim Fowley
  • "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" 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
  • "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 and 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 and 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 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
  • "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[]

  • "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
  • "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 Blue Beat" by Laurel Aitken & The Shed Enders
  • "Chelsea Boot" by The Shadows
  • "Chelsea Bridge" by Billy Strayhorn (a jazz standard)
  • "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 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 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)
  • "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
  • "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[]

  • "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
  • "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 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[]

  • "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 The Oyster Band
  • "Evening In London" from Follow That Girl
  • "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[]

  • "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 (singer)
  • "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
  • "Food For Thought" by Barron Knights (The Angel/Smithfield)
  • "The Fool on the Hill" by The Beatles[2]
  • "The 4 Marys Go Go Dance All Night at the Groovy Cellar" by Captain Sensible
  • "For the Girl" by The Fratellis
  • "For Tomorrow" by Blur[2]
  • "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 Allie Pallie, 1967)
  • "Fracas at Drury Lane" from Kean (musical)
  • "France" by The Libertines
  • "Francis Drake Bowls Club" by Billy Jenkins (musician) (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 (real name of Fad Gadget)
  • "From The South" by Cookie Crew
  • "From Wimbledon With Love" by The Wombles
  • "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[]

  • "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
  • "Geoffrey Ingram" by Television Personalities
  • "Geordie Boys" by Gazza (aka Paul Gascoigne)
  • "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 The Members
  • "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 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]
  • "The Guns of Brixton" by The Clash[2]
  • "Guts of London" by Cindytalk

H[]

  • "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 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 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[]

  • "I Am A Man From Lewisham" by Billy Jenkins (musician)
  • "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 Steet)
  • "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
  • "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)
  • "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[]

  • "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)
  • "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
  • "Just Play Music!" by Big Audio Dynamite
  • "Justice In Knightsbridge" by Robb Johnson

K[]

  • "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)
  • "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)
  • "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
  • "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[]

  • "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 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
  • "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
  • "" 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
  • "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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Mine" by White Rose Movement
  • "London's Not Too Far" by Hank Marvin
  • "London's Song" by
  • "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
  • "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[]

  • "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)
  • "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
  • "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))
  • "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[]

  • "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
  • "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 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)
  • "NW8" by Bernie Marsden
  • "NW10" by JC Carroll
  • "The Nymph's Dance – The Second of Grays Inn" by Mannheim Steamroller

O[]

  • "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)
  • "Oliver's Army" by Elvis Costello
  • "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[]

  • "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
  • "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 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 (bandleader)
  • "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 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 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 (band)
  • "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]
  • "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
  • "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 (band)
  • "Primrose Hill" by Beverley Martyn[2]
  • "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 (musician))
  • "Prince Igor" by The Rapsody featuring Warren G
  • "A Prince in a Pauper's Grave" by Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine
  • "Princelet Street" by Catherine Howe
  • "Probably A Robbery" by Renegade Soundwave
  • "The Procession of Popular Capitalism" by McCarthy
  • "Products" by Sway ft. El Rae
  • "Professor X" by Dave (rapper)
  • "Proud Thames" by Louis Bellson
  • "Pudding Mill Lane" by Saint Etienne
  • "Pulled Along by Love" by The Mutton Birds (trains on the Northern line)
  • "Puss in Boots" by Adam Ant
  • "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[]

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

R[]

  • "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 Evening In London" by Da Fresh
  • "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 (band)
  • "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[]

  • "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 Beneath a Sinking Sky" by The Clientele
  • "St. Paul's Suite" by Gustav Holst
  • "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 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 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 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 (band)
  • "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
  • "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
  • "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[]

  • "Take It" by Flowered Up
  • "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" by Florrie Forde
  • "Take Me Back To London" by Ruby
  • "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 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 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
  • "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[]

  • "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[]

  • "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 (a small street in 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[]

  • "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 (mentions roads in the Brixton area, from The Wall 1979)
  • "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 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 railway 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 the Guards Do the Birdcage Walk" by Fred Godfrey and John P. Harrington
  • "When The Lights Go Out in London" by The Charlatans (English band)
  • "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
  • "Who's The Darkman?" by Darkman (hitmaking British rapper from the 1990s)
  • "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 (band)
  • "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 (band)
  • "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 In London" by Under Cover Movement (rave tune from 1991)
  • "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 (British band)
  • "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
  • "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[]

  • "XR2" by MIA[1]

Y[]

  • "Ya Ga Ya Ga A Tramp" by Trinity
  • "Yaaah" (Mark Spoon Markus Löffel Remix) by D-Shake
  • "Yabba Dabba Doo" by Darkman (British rapper who had 3 UK pop chart hits in 1994/95)
  • "Ye Citizens of London" from Doris (opera)
  • "The Year She Spent in England" by Weddings Parties Anything
  • "The Yeomen of the Guard Overture" 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) from Let it Bleed 1969
  • "You Can't Do It in London" by Overlord X
  • "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
  • "Young London" by Angels & Airwaves
  • "Youth of Eglington" by Black Uhuru (Brixton)
  • "You're In A Bad Way" by Saint Etienne (band)
  • "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're The Top" by Cole Porter
  • "You've Got Her London" by Pierce Turner
  • "Yugoslavian Expedition To Brentford" by Loop Guru

See also[]

References[]

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  4. ^ Stokes, Niall (2005). Into The Heart: The Stories Behind Every U2 Song (Third ed.). Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 1-56025-765-2.
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  7. ^ "Alan Moore Fan Site – Bibliography". Archived from the original on 11 November 2004. Retrieved 20 May 2014.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  8. ^ The lyric states: "Une nuit que j'tais a me morfondre, dans quelque pub anglais du coeur de Londres"
  9. ^ "'London Calling', Repurposed as a Tourism Jingle : The Record". NPR. 30 July 2011. Archived from the original on 25 December 2020.
  10. ^ Clugston, Harriet. "20 Songs About London From The Punk And New Wave Era". Theculturetrip.com. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  11. ^ "Al Stewart – Past, Present and Future". The Strange Brew. Archived from the original on 20 November 2020.

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