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Obviously due to American influence on the world. The USA is the center of the western world in which all English speaking nations revolve around such as Ireland, the UK, Australia and Canada. This is evident by it's influence culturally and politically. London while a world city is still just a city in a moderately relevant country
New York comes across as sort of magical throughout history as it was home to Many downtrodden migrants from Europe and the world escaping poverty and oppression who carved out a new life in which many flourished there. American culture was moulded into what it is today by such people. The same can't be said for London, once a bastion for oppression and extreme disparity between different classes
Obviously due to American influence on the world. The USA is the center of the western world in which all English speaking nations revolve around such as Ireland, the UK, Australia and Canada. This is evident by it's influence culturally and politically. London while a world city is still just a city in a moderately relevant country
New York comes across as sort of magical throughout history as it was home to Many downtrodden migrants from Europe and the world escaping poverty and oppression who carved out a new life in which many flourished there. American culture was moulded into what it is today by such people. The same can't be said for London, once a bastion for oppression and extreme disparity between different classes
London is an important trading city, along with Paris which is just over 2 hours away on the train from St Pancras International, and London is much closer to other cultures and countries than NYC.
London and the British Isles has a long history of both invasion and immigration, and areas such as the East End are well known for their history of immigration, whilst as the mother city of the Commonwealth, London saw people settle in it from across the entire world.
London is an extremely multi-cultural city with virtually every conceivable population represented and many areas synonymous with certain countries and populations.
London is also a major transport hub, and trading centre and has a history going back over 2,000 years.
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Obviously due to American influence on the world. The USA is the center of the western world in which all English speaking nations revolve around such as Ireland, the UK, Australia and Canada. This is evident by it's influence culturally and politically. London while a world city is still just a city in a moderately relevant country
New York comes across as sort of magical throughout history as it was home to Many downtrodden migrants from Europe and the world escaping poverty and oppression who carved out a new life in which many flourished there. American culture was moulded into what it is today by such people. The same can't be said for London, once a bastion for oppression and extreme disparity between different classes
I enjoy New York City and London, but anybody who has been to New York City knows there is a pretty visible disparity in socioeconomic classes in the city.
Siouxsie And The Banshees really hated the racist skinheads who would abuse the owners of Hong Kong Garden Chinese Takeaway in Chislehurst (Bromley), it's since changed it's name to the Noble House Chinese Restaurant.
The song 'Sultans of Wing' by Dire Straits were inspired by a performance of a jazz band playing in the corner of an almost empty pub in Deptford, South London. At the end of their performance, the lead singer announced their name, the Sultans of Swing; Knopfler found the contrast between the group's dowdy appearance and surroundings and their grandiose name amusing.
Wearwolves of London began as a joke by Phil Everly (of The Everly Brothers) and Zevon in 1975, over two years before the recording sessions for Excitable Boy.
Everly had watched a television broadcast of the 1935 film Werewolf of London and "suggested to Zevon that he adapt the title for a song and dance craze.
"Come Dancing" is a tribute to the Davies' older sister Rene. Living in Canada with her reportedly abusive husband, the 31-year-old Rene was visiting her childhood home in Fortis Green in London at the time of Ray Davies' 13th birthday—21 June 1957—on which she surprised him with a gift of the Spanish guitar he had tried to persuade his parents to buy him.
That evening, Rene, who had a weak heart as a result of a childhood bout of rheumatic fever, suffered a fatal heart attack while dancing at the Lyceum ballroom (the local Palais).
Pulp's song 'Commom People; came from a Greek art student from an extremely wealthy family whom Pulp singer-songwriter Jarvis Cocker met while he was studying at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.
"'A' Bomb in Wardour Street" was a Weller original. One of their hardest and most intense songs, Weller cursed the violent thugs that plagued the punk rock scene over a taut two-chord figure.
Capital Radio by The Clash is an attack on the music policy of what was (at the time) London's only legal commercial music radio station, which played mainstream chart hits and little if any punk. It mentions the station's then-Head of Music, Aidan Day – "He picks all the hits they play/to keep you in your place all day".
I enjoy New York City and London, but anybody who has been to New York City knows there is a pretty visible disparity in socioeconomic classes in the city.
London also has it's problems, just like any big city and there are songs about the sex industry and poverty related to both cities.
Having already posted, the Streets of London by Ralph McTell, a few others include -
Vocalist Karl Hyde wrote the lyrics for "Born Slippy .NUXX" after a night drinking in Soho, London, hoping to capture the way a drunk "sees the world in fragments". The vocals were recorded in one take; when Hyde lost his place, he would sing the same line repeatedly, creating the line "lager, lager, lager, lager". Hyde, who was struggling with alcoholism, said he did not intend the song to be a "drinking anthem" but rather a "cry for help"
'Old Main Drag' about the sex trade in London, was featured at the end of the film 'My Private Idaho', a loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," starring the late River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves.
Adele wrote the song 'Hometown Glory' within 10 minutes, when she was only 16 years old, after her mother tried to persuade her to leave her home suburb of West Norwood in London for university. "Hometown Glory" is the first song that Adele ever wrote.
I can't say that I am an Adele fan but it's a popular song, so it's only right it's given a mention.
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