Streets of London (song) Streets of London (song) "Streets of London" is a song by Ralph McTell, who first recorded it for his 1969 album "Spiral Staircase." It was not released in the United Kingdom as a single until 1974. The song has been covered by over 200 artists. The song was re-released, on 4 December 2017, featuring McTell with Annie Lennox as a charity single for CRISIS, the Homelessness Charity. The song was inspired by McTell's experiences busking and hitchhiking throughout Europe, especially in Paris and the individual stories are taken from Parisians. McTell was originally going to call the song "Streets of
Hot Streets not accept them without Kath. Although the album went platinum, and Chicago scored a second top-twenty hit with "No Tell Lover", "Hot Streets" was the first Chicago album since their debut that failed to reach the US Top 10; fittingly, the band's twelfth album peaked at #12. Following the release of "Chicago 13" and at the end of the Christmas 1979 tour, Dacus would be released from the group, bringing his short tenure with Chicago to an abrupt end. In 2003, "Hot Streets" was remastered and reissued by Rhino Records with an alternate version of Lamm's "Love Was New" sung