After being featured in a 2012 Olympic ceremony, I guess Waterloo Sunset might be the obvious London song. Even if that mini masterpiece is disgarded, it's still pretty difficult to pin London down to just one song, because it get's so many mentions in popular music. Ones that spring to mind are Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner, Sunny Goodge Street, Finchley Central, the Lambeth Walk, Muswell Hillbillies, Slim Slow Slider and -does any one here remember Vera Lynn?- A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square.
I managed to reduce my favourites down to three:-
i) In celebration of the humble multi-ethnic neighbourhoods:-
A litany of place names, evocative without being sentimental:-
But when you're walking home at three in the morning the London streets take on a gentler quality:-
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