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Stato

Stato

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After @el punal 's request for songs that reference US states, can we provide an A-Z Guide to Music's thoroughfares?

Name songs that reference Streets, Avenues, Roads etc. Extra kudos if the street is real and you can map it to a city, town, post/zip code etc.

Start in Belfast BT5 5NT



And without Googling, who can identify the musical pseudonym of Canning Highway, Perth?
 






Flounce

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Saxon Street - Ezio

Street in Cambridge

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
 


Stato

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Kenny Street, Richmond, VIC, 3121 Australia.



The Bass player was moving into a house there and said he was going to write a song about the house, but got the name of the street wrong.
 


1066familyman

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Bodian

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Some of the best also don't seem to exist - like Fascination Street (The Cure) and Telegraph Road (Dire Straits).
 




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Gwylan

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Uffern
Barry Andrews - Rossmore Road (which does exist)
Scott Walker - Montague Terrace (which used to exist, apparently)
The Jam - An A bomb on Wardour St (certainly exists)
 


Stato

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1066familyman

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A little less specific, but real places...







The Reggae list is endless tbh.
 








The Clamp

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West is BEST
22 Acacia Avenue - Iron Maiden.

Doesn’t exist.

Bleecker Street - Simon and Garfunkel.

Does exist.



Every Beatles song has the name of a London road or area in it.
 




Stato

Stato

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Bodian said:
Some of the best also don't seem to exist - like Fascination Street (The Cure) and Telegraph Road (Dire Straits).
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The inspiration for Facination Street is apparently Bourbon Street, New Orleans.
Telegraph Road does exist. It goes through Michigan. Knopfler reportedly wrote it on the tour bus while travelling the road.
 










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Stato said:
The inspiration for Facination Street is apparently Bourbon Street, New Orleans.
Telegraph Road does exist. It goes through Michigan. Knopfler reportedly wrote it on the tour bus while travelling the road.
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Now - I never knew that, yet must have listened to it hundreds of times. And what an apt place for the street nameplate!

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