Places That Only Exist in Songs

Hotel California - The Eagles
Heartache Avenue - The Maisonettes
Twilight Café - Susan Fassbender

Heaven

Villiers Terrace - Bunnymen

A Gadda da Vida - Iron Butterfly

The Land Of Make Believe - Bucks Fizz.

heartbreak hotel

Electric Ladyland

Forgotten Town

I think you'll find Villiers Terrace did exist screaming

Nutbush City Limits

town called malice....the jam

Tina Turner was born in Nutbush.

Desolation row, bob dylan.

Land of Hope and Glory.

HH Sultan Vinegar     01 Jun 13 17:29 


Xanadu



ooops !



Xanadu (/ˈzæn.ə.duː/; Mongolian: Šandu), was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty in China

pump yes you're right - forgot about that.

Pumps, to be honest with you I'm not completely convinced HH is the full shilling.

Funky Towm - Lipps Inc.

The Lost and Found - Meat Loaf

Has-the 1.00000001 been landed yet?
Any mention of Hotel California? (which obviously exists)

madchester

Horace Street
Paradise City
Martika's kitchen

A land called Honalee

Actually, having thought about it, Martika probably does have a kitchen

boomtown

Nick

Hitsville, UK

Itchycoo Park.
Though it did exist many years ago.

McArthur Park

A town called Malice

manor park area study i think

I remember a phone-in on BBC Essex on the very subject, wit-ham. It was said by different callers to have been anywhere between Bethnal green and Southend, or it could have been in New York. But no-one knew for sure. I grew up not too far from Manor Park, and I'd never heard of the place except for the song.

Can anyone say for sure where Itchycoo Park is/was?

Bradford Elvis:
I think you'll find Villiers Terrace did exist screaming

pretty sure heard the same programme Study

Bradford Elvis:
I think you'll find Villiers Terrace did exist screaming

Did it really? I seem to remember a contemporary interview where McCullough said it didn't.

Where is this road where people roll around on carpets and bite wool? Bradford?

more on it Study

Small Faces London - Ilford Park

There has been speculation about the actual location of Itchycoo Park.

"Itchycoo Park is a name East End kids used to give to any local park (Manor Park) where vagrants congregated (when I was a kid in the East End in the '60s)." (Paul Williams)

The name comes about because the park was notorious for the stinging nettles that tended to attract kids playing and courting couples and make them itch.

"I was born and bred in Manor Park E12 and lived there between 1953 and1967. I met Steve Marriott on a number of occasions as a youngster. Manor Park itself was not known as Itchycoo Park rather it was what us local kids including Steve nicknamed little Ilford Park due to the horrendous amount of stinging nettles there. It is still there at the bottom of Church Road E12 now minus the nettles. Hope this authentic info puts you right." (Anthony Wragg)

Tony Quinlan claims that it was NOT Ilford Park but Little Ilford Park in Manor Park E12:

nirvana
alphabet street ?
moonlight drive ?
dirty old town

St. Cleve, Linwell & Little Cruddock.

mcarthur park is in la

durham town by roger whitaker, mentions it by the tyne, don't know any durham town by the tyne, there is a durham city on the river wear though if that's what he was singing about  the geographically challenged stupid t wat.

From wiki
MacArthur Park (formerly Westlake Park)[1] is a park in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, named after General Douglas MacArthur and designated city of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #100.[2]

Honah Lee

There's a bit about 'Itchycoo park' here, seems it could apply to lots.

http://www.itv.com/news/london/2012-05-11/where-is-itchycoo-park/

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

(where you go to weigh a pie).

Fascination Street - The Cure

a bar in Toledo down by the depo(t).

MisterBadger 02 Jun 13 11:15 
Honah Lee

Not true, I had a mate that lived there. Jack Paper his name was. Known to all as Little Jackie.

The Blue Cafe - Chris Rea

SlippyBlue • June 1, 2013 5:47 PM BST
The Land Of Make Believe - Bucks Fizz.

Ask Money Tree over this. It may well exist.

Shouldn't this thread just be renamed ' Places that are mentioned in songs '

Probably a lot of these actually do exist somewhere in the world.

"Tina Turner was born in Nutbush."

Yes, but:-

"As an unincorporated town, Nutbush does not officially have "city limits";"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutbush_City_Limits

Brigadoon.

24A Velocity Crescent - J Cope (B-side of The Greatness And Perfection Of Love)

If that one really does exist, life would be interesting if you were the leaseholder at 24B.

Lornadoon

Electric avenue

Malice (town)

Heartache avenue

Coach, Electric Avenue is a street Brixton, I was born about 400 yards from there!

you beat me to it Slippy - and was going to add it was on your manor

Jocelyn Street

Gillygillyossenpfefferkatzellenboden by the sea.  (Excuse the spelling)

sorry billy thats a small village in Lithuania i beleive

Paradise (by the dashboard light)

Glocca morra

Whats the story in Balamory, wouldn't you like to know? (It's actually Tobermory)

Electric avenue

westcliffe on sea has one

rease

The Church of the Poison Mice - Only in Boy George's drug addled imagination
Echo Beach - Martha & the Muffins ( could possibly exist though )
Copacabana - The hottest spot north of Havana

Echo beach doesn't exist, 718. The Muffins nicked it from the words of Hiroshima Mon Amour by Ultravox.

Riding inter-city trains
Dressed in European grey
Riding out to echo beach

Gasoline Alley

The Big Rock-Candy Mountain.  In the original version the lemonade springs were whiskey springs.



I'm still looking though.

Cirrus Minor

By Pink Floyd, sounds like an astronomical feature, but was a 1930s aircraft engine.

Tallahachie bridge 

Bubblegum tree

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekytTpFy96o

eagles
the last resort
they called it (paradise)

"OZ" as in "The Wizard Of,,,,,,,,,

'Garden in the'City-Melanie Safka.

Ok, so I cheated...."Heaven"

1. cheerleader Love instead of throwin' it all away
This Could be Heaven--Seal

2. Ceramics To understand the miracle of living
Heaven is a Place on Earth--Belinda Carlisle

3. Mike It's gettin' dark, too dark for me to see
Knockin' on Heaven's Door--Bob Dylan

4. Ceramics It's black and white and faded
Heaven--Warrant

5. cs And nothing we sign is any kind of guarantee
I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man)--Kenny Loggins

6. Indy 'Cause right now on earth I can't do jack
Heaven is a Halfpipe--OPM

7. cheerleader In these days of cold affections
Heaven for Everyone--Queen

8. cs Well if it seems to be real, it's illusion
Heaven and Hell--Black Sabbath

9. hannahbear/Spike Send, send her away to her grieving
Heaven Knows--The Corrs

10. cheerleader Well how can something so good go so bad
Something Happened on the Way to Heaven--Phil Collins

11. CeramicsWe've been down that road before
Heaven--Bryan Adams

12. Kenny In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
Stairway to Heaven--Led Zeppelin

13. Indy Somehow we got stuck in that elevator
Heaven on the 7th Floor--Paul Nicholas

14. cheerleadeer Without your touch, life will be lonely
Hands to Heaven--Breathe

15. csAnd when the world's compassion ceases, still I know
I Wish U Heaven--Prince

16. MikeTime can bend your knees
Tears in Heaven--Eric Clapton

17. hannahbear/Joelle He made a promise, gave every drop of blood
Somewhere in Heaven--Santana

Honaloochie

....as in Honaloochie Boogie by Mott the Hoople

^^ Heaven - Talking Heads.


Road tn Nowhere - Talking Heads

Paradise City - Guns n Roses

Electric avenue

isn't there one in Brixton? there is a Heartbreak Hotel (my mum's stopped there)although it probably wasn't when the song was released

The Temples of Syrinx
Red Sector A

Yeah - I'm a big rush fan!

Electric Avenue is a street in Brixton, London. Built in the 1880s, it was the first market street to be lit by electricity. Today, the street contains several butchers and fish mongers and hosts a part of Brixton Market, which specializes in selling a mix of African, Caribbean, and Portuguese products. It is located just round the corner from Brixton tube station . The elegant Victorian canopies over the pavements survived until the 1980s.

Brixton has its own currency that a lot of the shops and market stalls take, the Brixton pound.

can you still get Brixton briefcases there?

God HH, that's a real blast from the past thinking about those bad boys.

GILLY GILLY OSSENFEFFER KATZENELLEN BOGEN BY THE SEA

see I'm learning about the smoke Slippy

blackberry way.

Satellite 2

Ticket To The Moon and Here Is The News - ELO

Ammonia Avenue
The Land of Grey and Pink

The Sky with Diamonds.Were Lucy is !

Firth of Fifth
Mar

Ignoreland