Watch popular content from the following creators: Kenny(kenny.a7), LONDON(london), Wonders of London(wondersoflondon), wonderful.uk(wonderful.uk), streets of London(streetsoflondon). It was his greatest commercial success, reaching number two in the UK Singles Chart, at one point selling 90,000 copies a day and winning him the 1974 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically and a Silver disc for record sales. Discover short videos related to The Streets of London From East London Slums to Piccadilly on TikTok.

McTell played the song in a fingerpicking style with an AABA chord progression. McTell re-recorded it for the UK single release in 1974. A re-recorded version charted in the Netherlands in April 1972, notching up to #9 the next month. Streets of London Lyrics: Have you seen the old man / In the closed-down market / Kicking up the paper / With his worn out shoes / In his eyes you see no pride / And held loosely at his side. McTell left the song off his debut album, Eight Frames a Second, since he regarded it as too depressing, and did not record it until persuaded by his producer, Gus Dudgeon, for his second album in 1969. McTell had often observed an old man there, picking through the papers, looking for a grapefruit or a carrot. In an interview on Radio 5 with Danny Baker on 16 July 2016, McTell explained that the market he referred to in the song was Surrey Street Market in Croydon. The song contrasts the common problems of everyday people with those of the homeless, lonely, elderly, ignored and forgotten members of society. The song was inspired by McTell's experiences busking and hitchhiking throughout Europe, especially in Paris and the individual stories are taken from Parisians вЂ“ McTell was originally going to call the song Streets of Paris eventually London was chosen because he realised he was singing about London.

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