Question of the week:Do you have a favourite London musician, band, composer, or piece of music? "I came across this list of Top 50 songs about London - a lot of music from the '70s and '80s, but some current stuff too. See if you recognize any tunes from their list and if you agree with their decision - and Miss Alice's pick - of The Clash’s “London Calling” as their #1 pick."- Catherine
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Question of the week:Do you have a favourite London musician, band, composer, or piece of music? "One of my favourite London compositions is George Frideric Handel's Water Music, composed for the coronation of King George I in 1717, which featured a royal procession of barges in the Thames. Handel, of German origin, lived in London for many years and is associated with wonderful sites to visit today, including the Handel House Museum (with links to Jimi Hendrix!) and the Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury's Coram's Fields (a jewel of a small museum dedicated to London's first home for abandoned children, which Handel strongly supported)."- Prof Kucich
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Question of the week:Do you have a favourite London musician, band, composer, or piece of music? "I have to stop asking 'do you have a favourite' questions that are impossible to answer - just one musician, band, or piece of music? You realise I read Paul Du Noyer's book and kept arguing with him in my head about what he'd left out?
London bands - check out The Holloways and The King Blues if you get a chance - I've never seen a bad King Blues gig, no matter the venue - but if I had to pick just one song? London Calling by The Clash - quite apart from everything else, I'll never forget dancing to that, surrounded by friends in Kings Cross, 36 hours after the 7/7 bombings."- Miss Alice
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Question of the week:Do you have a favourite London musician, band, composer, or piece of music? "A favourite? Only one? No -- too many to list. But I would go to anything, anything at all, played by these particular ensembles that are interesting in themselves and so perform at the highest standard: the London Symphony Orchestra; the Westminster Abbey Choir ; the Southbank Sinfonia; and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment"- Dr Holt
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Question of the week:Do you have a favourite London musician, band, composer, or piece of music? "A Foggy Day in London Town - I like the Ella Fitzgerald version, because we all have days like this, and it's nice to think that someone or something can come along and snap us out of it. And I love Ella Fitzgerald.
I was a stranger in the city
Out of town were the people I knew
I had that feeling of self-pity
What to do, what to do, what to do
The outlook
was decidedly blue
But as I walked through the foggy streets alone
It turned out to be the luckiest day I've known
A foggy day, in London town
Had me low, had me down
I viewed the morning, with much alarm
British Museum, had lost its charm
How long I wondered,
Could this thing last
But the age of miracles, hadn't past
For suddenly, I saw you there
And through foggy London town,
The sun was shining everywhere
For suddenly, I saw you there
And through foggy London town,
The sun was shining everywhere
Everywhere
Everywhere
Everywhere"
- Kris
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