Magic Roundabout (Swindon) roundabout used to be County Islands, but it was changed in the late 1980s to match its popular name. It inspired the song "English Roundabout", a pop song by the Swindon band XTC, which was recorded for their 1982 album "English Settlement". In 2005, it was voted the worst roundabout in a survey of the general public by a UK insurance company. In September 2007, the Magic Roundabout was named as one of the world's worst junctions by a UK motoring magazine. In December 2007, "BBC News" reported a survey identifying The Magic Roundabout as one of the "10 Scariest
The Magic Roundabout live LP "Jasper Carrot – In the Club"), a short, risqué comic monologue parodying the children's TV series, as the B-side of a 7-inch single, featuring his comic song "Funky Moped" on the A-side. The record was a hit, but Carrott always claimed people were buying it for the B-side and not for the song. The show's theme music also featured on two minor UK hit singles in 1991, "Summer's Magic" by Mark Summers and "Magic Style" by The Badman. In 1971 BBC Records released "The Magic Roundabout" (RBT 8), an LP containing 10 stories taken from the soundtracks of