Streets Of London

"Streets of London" is a song written by Ralph McTell. It was first recorded for McTell's 1969 album Spiral Staircase but was not released in the United Kingdom as a single until 1974. It was his greatest commercial success, reaching number two in the UK singles chart, at one point selling 90,000 copies a day [1] and winning him the Ivor Novello Award.

The song was inspired by McTell's experiences busking and hitchhiking throughout Europe, especially in London and Paris; although the individual stories are taken from Parisians, London is chosen for its arguably more sonorous name. The song contrasts the common problems of everyday people with those of the homeless, lonely elderly, and ignored and forgotten members of society.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• guitar
• keyboard
• easy listenind
• mood
• london

[Flamehayls81]

this is fantastic, have spent nearly an hour on youtube trying to find an instrumental of this song for me to sing to, yours is definitely the best one and will be posting a video response in the next day or two if thats ok?? :-)

[glynbria]

Hi.

Thanks for comment,no prob you can use my version as your backing track with pleasure & i will eagerly be looking forward to seeing your video response.

Hope key is ok for your voice.

Very best regards.

Brian

[monicaorange]

Hello mr glynbria,

Again a nicely played tune,there are so many songs to play.

5***** again,

greetings,

monicaorange.

[glynbria]

Thank you very much for commenting on my version of Streets of London,I am pleased you liked it.

Very Best Regards.

Brian

[johnfleff]

Love your style...great tune...keep up the great work!!!

GoodGuyJohn

[glynbria]

Many thanks John.

Regards.

Brian

[FreeBritain1]

This song touched me 'so much' as a child.

[glynbria]

Many thanks Drew.

Brian

[werdna6677]

This is a really lovely version of a nice song . Well done Brian.