List of songs about Birmingham

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This is a list of songs about Birmingham, England:

  • Electric Light Orchestra - Birmingham Blues
  • Rob Halford - "Made in Hell" ( From memories of 68 when the wizard shook the world/ Metal came from foundries where the midlands sound unfurled/ The bullring was a lonely place of concrete towers and steel/ The coal mines and the industries were all I had to feel)
  • 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)
  • Ocean Colour Scene - "Debris Road" (Reputed to be about the road running past the bands recording studios in Ladywood)
  • The Streets - "Turn The Page" from Original Pirate Material (The hazy fog over the Bull Ring/ The lazy ways the birds sing)
  • Lance Percival "The Maharajah of Brum" c.1969