There Are Places I Remember: Songs About Places

Last Night in Soho (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich ) 1968 For last night in Soho I let my life go I emerged from Leicester Sq...

There are   places which have always carried an irresistible air of far away and exotic mystery for me from an early age, including bot...

A previous column (Voyage to Atlantis ) mentioned some songs about places  that exist only in fantasy, like The Land of Grey and Pink...

A constant theme in this blog has been that places spark particular associations. Sometimes these can be so specific that everyone...

The park as a place to go has cropped up a few times before, in For What Is Chatteris and Trafalgar Square . Parks have been one of t...

Everybody probably has a notion somewhere inside of their head of some special  place they have a yearning to see, sometimes realistic...

The West End of London  is a flexible term. It can mean that shopping area round Oxford Street and Regent Street, the focus of the Ever...

An earlier column looked at Finland, where the song Finland  by the Redwoods seemed to me to capture the feeling of the country th...

An earlier column wrote of Andalucia in Southern Spain. It is an evocative name in many ways, of Moorish architecture and olive groves ...