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
The Streets of London (1934 film) boring. The actors also fail to enter into the right spirit of burlesque and the production, generally, is of a poor standard. Peter Fitzpatrick, Thring's biographer, later wrote that seeing the film today "it is still hard to avoid, let alone answer, the question that must surely have struck Frank Thring as he watched its rushes: why was it made?" The play was re-staged at the Minerva Theatre and featured in the 1952 documentary "Theatre in Australia". The Streets of London (1934 film) The Streets of London is a 1934 Australian film directed by F. W. Thring. It was a