Songs about thoroughfares

Gerry Rafferty - Royal Mile

 

The Dictators - Minnesota Strip

 

The Kinks - Berkeley Mews

 

"Frankfurter Allee"

 

Frank Black and the Catholics - Pan American Highway

 

The best known of them all is surely "Follow the The Yellow Brick Road"

 

I'm guessing Sunset Blvd.

 

On the Street Where You Live - Broadway Musical, My fair Lady
Bleecker Street - Simon & Garfunkel
The Road - Chicago
The Long and Winding Road - the Beatles
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
Toulouse Street - the Doobie Brothers
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
8th Avenue Shuffle - the Doobie Brothers
Hot Streets - Chicago
52nd Street - Billy Joel
Paradise Alley - Chicago
Boulevard - Jackson Browne

 

Kings Highway
Kings Road
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

 

Kraftwerk - Autobahn

 

The Bee Gees - Marleypurt Drive

It's such a weird name that I presume it must actually exist.

 

This tall piano player mentions a whole bunch of 'em he loves in Los Angeles


We love it, we love it !

 

Joe Dassin - Aux Champs Elysees. Years ago an American tourist in Paris asked me for directions to - as he pronounced - Chemps-ah-Lyseez

 

Mott the Hoople - Angel of 8th Avenue

 

Fred Eaglesmith - I-75

 

Fred Eaglesmith - Cemetery Road

 

Electric Avenue is a street in Brixton, London. Built in the 1880s, it was the first market street to be lit by electricity.

 

Love Street

 

(Christchurch, New Zealand) : Rocking Horse Road - Elvis Costello

 

Tom Cochrane & Red Rider - Avenue "A"

 

Tom Petty - Route 66

 

"Surf Route 101" by The Super Stocks

 

A Bomb On Wardour Street - The Jam
Kentucky Avenue - Tom Waits
Something In The Night - Bruce Springsteen ("I'm riding down Kingsley..."

 

Highway 61 follows the Mississippi from Minnesota to New Orleans. It’s possible to (re)visit it.