List of songs about Birmingham explained

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 islands 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]
• 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)
• Ire-Ish - "Fairytale Of New Street

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• 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)
• Mr Hudson and the Library – "2x2" (Two by two the lovers slip, Through the frozen streets of Birmingham)
• Jon Wilks – "I Can't Find Brummagem" (This Digbeth here I wouldn't know/I miss the rogues of Brummagem) (Traditional song rewritten for modern Birmingham)

Notes and References

1. Book: Ogg. Alex. No more heroes : a complete history of UK punk from 1976 to 1980 :. 2006. Cherry Red. London. 1-901447-65-0. 366–368. 1. publ..