List of songs about Manchester, United Kingdom.
The 1975 - "The City" Beautiful south – "Manchester" Brian and Michael – "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs" (And parts of Ancoats where I used to play; about Manchester artist L. S. Lowry) The Courteeners – "Fallowfield Hillbilly" The Courteeners – "The Opener" Davy Jones – "Manchester Boy" Doves – "M62 Song" Doves – "Northenden" The Durutti Column – "28 Oldham" (The address of Factory Records' DryBar FAC201) The Durutti Column – "Longsight Romance" The Durutti Column – "Sketch for a Manchester Summer 1989" Eels – "Manchester Girl" Elbow – "Forget Myself" Elbow – "Great Expectations" (About the 135 Bury–Manchester Bus Route) Elbow – "Grounds for Divorce" (About The Temple, a bar in Manchester) Elbow – "Station Approach" Ewan MacColl – "The Manchester Rambler" The Fall – "Bury" The Fall – "Cheetham Hill" The Fall – "City Hobgoblins" (Queen Victoria is a large black slug in Piccadilly Manchester) The Fall – "Fit And Working Again" (Reception room, Victoria Station) The Fivepenny Piece – "City of Manchester" The Freshies – "I'm in Love With the Girl on the Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk" Fritz von Runte – "Abraham Moss Eternal" Fritz von Runte – "Basses o’ th’ Bard" Fritz von Runte – "Bowker Vale Breeze (Are We There Yet)" Fritz von Runte – "Bury Bliss (Cheese at Home)" Fritz von Runte – "Crumpet is All" Fritz von Runte – "Heat-on Heat-off" Fritz von Runte – "Prestwich Places" Fritz von Runte – "Queens Road Reverie (Sound as a Bound)" Fritz von Runte – "Rad Cliff-hanger" Fritz von Runte – "Shudehill Shuffle" Fritz von Runte – "Victoria Velvet (Manchester Ambient City)" Fritz von Runte – "Whitefield Whispers" Gomez – "Whippin' Piccadilly" John Shuttleworth – "You're Like Manchester" Hair soundtrack – "Manchester" Herman's Hermits – "It's Nice to be Out in the Morning" Ian Brown – "Longsight M13" Inspiral Carpets – "Sackville" (About the red light district in Manchester) John Cooper Clarke – "Beasley Street" Joyce (singer) – "The Band on the Wall" Lionrock – "Snapshot on Pollard St." Lionrock – "Wilmslow Rd." Marie Laforêt – "Manchester et Liverpool" Mike Harding – "Strangeways Hotel" Mint Royale – "From Rusholme with Love" Oasis – "Half The World Away" Oasis – "Round Are Way" Oasis – "Shakermaker" (Mr Sifter sold me songs, when I was just sixteen) Pomona (folksong) – Music hall song Shifty – "Manchester" The Smiths – "Cemetery Gates" (about Southern Cemetery) The Smiths – "Miserable Lie" (What do we get for our trouble and pain but a rented room in Whalley Range?) The Smiths – "Rusholme Ruffians" The Smiths – "Suffer Little Children" (Oh Manchester, so much to answer for; about the Moors murders) The Smiths – "The Headmaster Ritual" (Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools) The Spinners – "Flowers of Manchester" The Stone Roses – "Daybreak" (from Atlanta, Georgia to Longsight, Manchester) The Stone Roses – "Mersey Paradise" (seeing as it runs through South Manchester) Take That – "Mancunian Way" The Times – "Manchester" Tractor – "Drunken Angels and Sad Clowns aka- Manchester" Tractor – "Peterloo"