List of songs about Birmingham

For songs about Birmingham, Alabama, see List of songs about Birmingham, Alabama.

This is a list of songs about Birmingham, England, with lyrics in brackets where appropriate.

Pato Banton – "Handsworth Riot"
Broadcast – "Michael A Grammar" (Michael, wake up we're going back to Chelmsley Wood)
Electric Light Orchestra – "Birmingham Blues" from Out of the Blue
The Fall – "Birmingham School Of Business School"
Go Kart Mozart – "Mrs Back-To-Front and the Bull Ring Thing"
Rob Halford – "Made in Hell" (Metal came from foundries where the idlands sound unfurled/The Bull Ring was a lonely place of concrete towers and steel)
Johnny Foreigner – "Sometimes in the Bullring"
Marie Lloyd – "Oh! Mr Porter" (Oh! Mister Porter, what shall I do?/I want to go to Birmingham and they're taking me on to Crewe)
Misspent Youth – Betcha Wont Dance/Birmingham Boys (Big Bear Records 1979 BB20)^[1]
Reg Meuross – "Birmingham Hotel"
The Pogues – "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six"
Red Dragon and Flourgan – "Follow Me" (Follow we go London and Birmingham city)
Sex Pistols – "Bodies" (She was a girl from Birmingham/She just had an abortion)
The Smiths – "Panic" (Panic on the streets of London/Panic on the streets of Birmingham)
Steel Pulse – "Handsworth Revolution"
The Streets – "Turn The Page" (The hazy fog over the Bull Ring/The lazy ways the birds sing)
Tippa Irie – "It's Good to Have the Feeling You're the Best" (Well I control the north, south, east and west/In London and Birmingham one have to confess)
Travis – "She's So Strange" (She went to Birmingham/ She'll soon be in the can)
Mr Hudson and the Library – "2x2" (Two by two the lovers slip, Through the frozen streets of Birmingham)

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References

↑ Ogg, Alex (2006). No more heroes : a complete history of UK punk from 1976 to 1980 : (1. publ. ed.). London: Cherry Red. pp. 366–368. ISBN 1-901447-65-0.

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