There are obviously some pretty well-known ones (loads of great ones by The Kinks for example), but we are after the more obscure stuff.
To get the ball rolling:
London - Sandie Shaw
Mayfair / At the chime of a city clock - Nick Drake
London Town / Chester Street - The Pretty things
Finchley Central - New Vaudeville Band
Hamstead Incident - Donovan
London - David Axelrod
Suite London - Peddlers
Bond Street - Burt Bacharach
More please!
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A few off the top of my head...
Kathe Green 'Primrose Hill'
Bob Downes 'Poplar Cheam'
Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll and the Trinity 'Oh Baby Won't You Come Back Home to Croydon Where Everybody Beedle and Bo's'
London Is The Place For Me - Lord Kitchener
Great work.
Chelsea Kids- Heavy Metal Kids
Battersea Power Station (album) - Junior's Eyes
Tooting Bec Wreck- Hanoi Rocks
Baker St Muse- Jethro Tull
Ponders End Allotments Club- Chas And Dave
Obviously, EVERY Madness song is about London, but in particular 'The Liberty Of Norton Folgate' and 'NW5'
Bullen Street Blues- Brunning Sunflower Blues Band
The Kid From Kensington- Dogs D'Amour
Soho (Needless To Say)- Al Stewart
London Boys- David Bowie
Dick A Dum Dum (Kings Road)- Des O'Connor
Dagenham Dave- either The Stranglers or Morrissey
From Tooting To Barking (compilation album actually named after a lyric in their song 'Can't Park Here')- Quireboys. They also did a song called Mayfair, but it's named after the rock club in Newcastle.
Bromley Common- The End
Itchycoo Park (named after a wasteground round the back of Little Ilford Park, E6)- Small Faces
Beechwood Park (ok, slightly cheating, as it's in St Albans)- The Zombies
Sunday Afternoon In Belgrave Square- Trevor Billmuss
Waterlow (named after a park in Archway)- Mott The Hoople
Archway People- Saint Etienne
London Town- Wings (title track of first album I ever owned!!)
Pimlico- David Devant And His Spirit Wife
The Guns Of Brixton- The Clash (obviously)
Plaistow Patricia- Ian Dury
Sydenham The Dock Of The Bay- Otis Redding
Harrow I love You- The Doors
OK, I made the last two up. More soon though...
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