Yep, you guessed it, this is all about the London songs..many hundreds of them:

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But which one is the best? My guess goes to The Clash and 'London Calling' but my favorite is 'London by Night' performed by Frank Sinatra...What's yours? Is it maybe "All the Umbrellas in London" by The Magnetic Fields? or simply 'Streets of London' by Ralph McTell?



Best Stones-London-Song?


I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

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Play with fire.

I want to get lost in your rock 'n roll and drift away

Street Fighting Man....not in the title, but it's all london



'some things, well, I can't refuse'

I always have kept "CS Blues" as a guideline to London sights...

- Doxa

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I always have kept "CS Blues" as a guideline to London sights...

- Doxa

Stay away from the London police

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I always have kept "CS Blues" as a guideline to London sights...

- Doxa

Stay away from the London police

The only experience I had with the London police was a good one.

I got lost, and three of them offered directions back to my hotel.
Of course, this was in the middle of the Knotting Hill Festival, so damn near everyone was having fun at the time.....

Isn't C o c k s u c k e r B l u e s about a London-boy?


I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

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Isn't C o c k s u c k e r B l u e s about a London-boy?

Yep, as well as about an encounter with a young police man...

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...or to be more precise, a London policeman's truncheon and helmet!



'some things, well, I can't refuse'

Yeah, the schoolboy was not from London, but decided to check out what he heard about the town.
As did Doxa. I hope it was not disappointing.

I think Miss Amanda Jones is also quite a bit about London.

I want to get lost in your rock 'n roll and drift away

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Yeah, the schoolboy was not from London, but decided to check out what he heard about the town.
As did Doxa. I hope it was not disappointing.

I think Miss Amanda Jones is also quite a bit about London.

I think nearly all Jagger/Richards observational songs were about London until Exile On Main Street. There were a few exceptions like Sympathy, Midnight Rambler, and the spaced out songs on Satanic.

There were several around the punk era. London Lady by The Stranglers and London Girl by The Jam spring to mind.

No London-boys this two....Wyman is...



Pure London-bands, whats the most famous?


I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

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Pure London-bands, whats the most famous?

The Kinks?

The Faces?

The 'orrible 'oo?

Come on, you're a genius and a romantic.

Love Sinatra, the arrangement, the mood, the feeling, the neighborhood.

That song always makes me want to dance.

One of my favorites is Nat King Cole's version of
A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square

Ian Dury wrote loads of songs referencing London (& Essex) but this was probaly the most comprehensive............

A Bus Driver's Prayer.........





I guess Londoners will appreciate the familiars in this one....

My Old Man...........





I met a woman and she told me...."well baby...... well the blues ain't bad"...........



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I imagine this was about a poor girl in London...it is also, BTW, my absolute favourite version of any Bobby Darin song...this swings baby:

It's old, it's sentimental, the botany is hopelessly wrong, the lines about costers and little London Sparrows are corny...

... but it gets me every time.





(and the other sort of London Pride ain't bad, either)

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Come on, you're a genius and a romantic.

Love Sinatra, the arrangement, the mood, the feeling, the neighborhood.

That song always makes me want to dance.

Oh!... I salute...

Sinatra's kind of a household God...


I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

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It's old, it's sentimental, the botany is hopelessly wrong, the lines about costers and little London Sparrows are corny...

... but it gets me every time.





(and the other sort of London Pride ain't bad, either)

Funnily enough I was only today admiring some 'London Pride' I planted on a railway embankment a few years ago that has now spread 'everywhere'...........didn't know there was a song about it....good to know........

I met a woman and she told me...."well baby...... well the blues ain't bad"...........

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Come on, you're a genius and a romantic.

Love Sinatra, the arrangement, the mood, the feeling, the neighborhood.

That song always makes me want to dance.

Oh!... I salute...

Sinatra's kind of a household God...

Perhaps to take the spotlight off of Beatles vs. Stones, we could start a Sinatra/Darin rivalry thread?

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Come on, you're a genius and a romantic.

Love Sinatra, the arrangement, the mood, the feeling, the neighborhood.

That song always makes me want to dance.

Oh!... I salute...

Sinatra's kind of a household God...

Perhaps to take the spotlight off of Beatles vs. Stones, we could start a Sinatra/Darin rivalry thread?

D-A-R-I-N????
You must be a Swede.....

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Come on, you're a genius and a romantic.

Love Sinatra, the arrangement, the mood, the feeling, the neighborhood.

That song always makes me want to dance.

Oh!... I salute...

Sinatra's kind of a household God...

Perhaps to take the spotlight off of Beatles vs. Stones, we could start a Sinatra/Darin rivalry thread?

D-A-R-I-N????
You must be a Swede.....

OH BABY...them's fightin' words!