[Music] Musical Street Map

[Stato]

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?

 

[Stato]

Glasgow G2 3NW/X

 

[Flounce]

Saxon Street - Ezio

Street in Cambridge

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

 

[Stato]

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]

 

[Bodian]

Looked on google view, but couldn't pinpoint them.

 

[KZNSeagull]

The Cure - Fascination Street

 

[Bodian]

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

 

[Gwylan]

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]

 

[1066familyman]

A little less specific, but real places...







The Reggae list is endless tbh.

 

[Stato]

Barry Andrews - Rossmore Road (which does exist)
Scott Walker - Montague Terrace (which used to exist, apparently)

Where are/were they?

 

[studio150]

53rd & 3rd - Ramones

 

[The Clamp]

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]

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

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.

 

[Gwylan]

Where are/were they?

Rossmore Rd is near Regent's Park (to the west of it)
Montague Terrace is reputedly a demolished street in Chelsea

 

[Bodian]

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.

Every Beatles song??

 

[Stato]

22 Acacia Avenue - Iron Maiden.

Doesn’t exist.

Good job, or the residents of 22 could have got some visits from some right seedy characters.

 

[Bodian]

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.

Now - I never knew that, yet must have listened to it hundreds of times. And what an apt place for the street nameplate!

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

www.google.com

 

[Gwylan]

A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square - Vera Lynn
Do the Strand - Roxy Music