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The following is a list of official music videos that were set and primarily filmed in London, England.

Year Track Title Artist Video Director Location(s)
1965 Concrete And Clay Unit 4+2 The Barbican
1965 Subterranean Homesick Blues Bob Dylan D. A. Pennebaker, Pennebaker Films Savoy Steps, Strand[1][2]
1965 The Kids Are Alright The Who Hyde Park
1966 Paperback Writer The Beatles Chiswick House[3][4]
1966 Rain The Beatles Michael Lindsay-Hogg Chiswick House[3][4]
1970 In the Summertime Mungo Jerry Park Lane[5]
1978 Is This Love Bob Marley & The Wailers Keskidee Centre (King's Cross)[6][7]
1978 News of the World The Jam Battersea Power Station
1979 Feels Like I'm in Love Kelly Marie HMS Belfast
1980 Towers of London XTC Tower Bridge
1981 Making Your Mind Up Bucks Fizz Harrods
1981 Ghost Town The Specials Barney Bubbles City of London, East End, Blackwall Tunnel[8]
1981 Golden Brown The Stranglers Lindsey Clennell Leighton House Museum[9]
1981 Vienna Ultravox Russell Mulcahy Covent Garden[10] and Gaumont State Cinema[11]
1981 Visage Visage Covent Garden[12]
1982 'Ullo John! Gotta New Motor? Alexei Sayle Goldhawk Road, W12 - London Buses[13]
1982 If You Can't Stand the Heat Bucks Fizz Shaftesbury Theatre
1982 Now Those Days Are Gone Bucks Fizz Hyde Park
1982 Come on Eileen Dexys Midnight Runners Kennington[14]
1982 Love Action (I Believe in Love) The Human League Docklands[15] and Warwick Avenue
1982 Our House Madness Willesden Junction[citation needed]
1982 Pass the Dutchie Musical Youth Don Letts South Bank
1982 Youth of Today Musical Youth
1982 Strange Little Girl The Stranglers Cambridge Circus
1983 London Town Bucks Fizz Holloway
1983 Owner of a Lonely Heart Yes Westminster Bridge
1983 Unconditional Love Donna Summer featuring Musical Youth Kingston upon Thames
1983 New Song Howard Jones Holborn tube station
1983 (Keep Feeling) Fascination The Human League Steve Barron Plaistow, Newham[16][17]
1984 Smalltown Boy Bronski Beat Southwest Trains
1984 Louise The Human League Steve Barron Southall, Ealing,'The Common' beside Grand Union Canal
1984 West End Girls Pet Shop Boys Andy Morahan and Eric Watson West End, Waterloo station and Queen Walk
1984 Love Glove Visage Nick Morris Docklands[18]
1985 Emotion Barbra Streisand Richard Baskin and Barbra Streisand Jacob Street Studios (Bermondsey)[19]
1985 Dancing in the Street David Bowie and Mick Jagger David Mallet London Docklands
1985 Walking on Sunshine Katrina and the Waves Tower Bridge
1985 Heart of Lothian Marillion North Kensington
1985 Say I'm Your Number One Princess Open top bus[13]
1985 So Macho Sinitta Harley Street[20]
1986 Change of Heart Cyndi Lauper Andy Morahan Trafalgar Square[21][22]
1986 Press Paul McCartney London Underground
1987 Never Gonna Give You Up Rick Astley Freston Road railway bridge,[23] Harrow Club[24]
1987 London Roger Hodgson
1988 Good Life Inner City Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus
1988 Girl You Know It's True Milli Vanilli London Buses[13]
1989 Street Tuff Double Trouble Ft. Rebel MC

Docklands

1989 Everlasting Love Howard Jones Regent's Park
1991 Bang Blur Willy Smax West End[25]
1991 Rhinoceros The Smashing Pumpkins Angela Conway Hyde Park[26]
1992 Metal Mickey Suede
1993 For Tomorrow Blur Julien Temple Trafalgar Square and Primrose Hill[27][9]
1993 Deep East 17 Walthamstow
1993 House of Love East 17 Walthamstow Stadium
1993 Animal Nitrate Suede Pedro Romhanyi Lisson Green Estate, Westminster[28]
1994 Drunk on Love Basia West End[29]
1994 Parklife Blur Pedro Romhanyi Greenwich Peninsula[30]
1994 Line Up Elastica
1994 Missing Everything but the Girl Mark Szaszy Balham, Clapham South
1994 Trouble Shampoo
1994 Killing of a Flash Boy Suede Nightingale Estate, Hackney
1995 Inner City Life Goldie Mike Lipscombe Camberwell
1995 Disco 2000 Pulp Pedro Romhanyi Smashing Night Club[31][32]
1995 Just Radiohead Jamie Thraves Liverpool Street station[33]
1995 He's on the Phone Saint Etienne West End[34][35]
1995 Camden Town Suggs Camden Town
1996 Machinehead Bush Shawn Mortensen Shepherd's Bush[36]
1996 Hey Dude Kula Shaker
1996 Wide Open Space Mansun Soho
1996 Return of the Mack Mark Morrison
1996 Firestarter The Prodigy Walter Stern Aldwych tube station[37][38]
1996 Wannabe Spice Girls Johan Camitz Midland Grand Hotel (St Pancras)[39]
1997 Setting Sun Chemical Brothers featuring Noel Gallagher Dom&nic Crystal Palace Park
1997 Where's the Love Hanson Battersea Power Station and Trafalgar Square
1997 Taxloss Mansun Roman Coppola Liverpool Street station[33]
1997 Saturday Night Suede Pedro Romhanyi Holborn tube station[33]
1997 Bitter Sweet Symphony The Verve Walter Stern Hoxton[40]
1997 Lucky Man The Verve Hammersmith[33]
1997 Hybrid Rainbow The Pillows Oku Kazuyoshi Berwick Street, Battersea Power Station and Primrose Hill
1998 Because We Want To Billie Piper Phil Griffin Greenwich
1999 Hey Boy Hey Girl The Chemical Brothers Dom&nic Natural History Museum[9] and Ministry of Sound
1999 Turn Travis Nightingale Estate, Hackney
2000 Jestem powietrzem Anita Lipnicka
2000 Tomorrow Comes Today Gorillaz Jamie Hewlett
2000 God Save the Queen Motörhead Open top bus[13][41]
2001 Gotta Get Thru This Daniel Bedingfield Director X Canary Wharf[42]
2001 You Give Me Something Jamiroquai Docklands[43]
2002 Girlfriend Alicia Keys Patrick Hoelck
2003 Don't Look Back into the Sun The Libertines Alexander Strickland-Clarke West End
2003 Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime Nena and Kim Wilde Exchange Alley[44]
2003 London Pet Shop Boys Shepherd's Bush, Piccadilly Circus, Millennium Bridge, Soho, Peckham[45]
2003 She Believes (In Me) Ronan Keating
2004 Cry Alex Parks Charing Cross tube station[46]
2004 What Became of the Likely Lads The Libertines Thamesmead
2004 Party for Two Shania Twain featuring Billy Currington or Mark McGrath Marcus Raboy South Kensington
2005 So Here We Are Bloc Party
2005 Fix You Coldplay Sophie Muller Southwark and King's Cross
2005 Hung Up Madonna David LaChapelle Charing Cross tube station[46]
2005 Na dwa Sistars
2006 Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away) David Guetta featuring The Egg Heygate Estate[47]
2006 Four The Elizabeth Shepherd Trio City[48]
2006 London Bridge Fergie Marc Webb Woolwich[49]
2006 Waste a Moment Fightstar Aldwych tube station[37]
2006 Runaway Jamiroquai Piccadilly Circus, London
2006 Hot Kiss Juliette and the Licks City
2006 LDN Lily Allen
2006 Sorry Madonna Jamie King
2006 Stop Me Mark Ronson featuring Daniel Merriweather Docks, River Thames, Canary Wharf and Millennium Bridge
2007 Ayo Technology 50 Cent featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland
2007 Mr Rock & Roll Amy Macdonald
2007 Back to Black Amy Winehouse Phil Griffin Stoke Newington[50][51][52]
2007 I Still Remember Bloc Party London Overground
2007 Suburban Knights Hard-Fi Ben Crook North Woolwich
2007 Overpowered Róisín Murphy
2007 About You Now Sugababes Marcus Adams Lambeth[53]
2008 Warwick Avenue Duffy Daniel Wolfe Warwick Avenue tube station
2008 Never Miss a Beat Kaiser Chiefs Goodtimes Abbey Wood, Thamesmead
2009 Always Like This Bombay Bicycle Club
2009 I Love London Crystal Fighters Martin Zahringer
2009 Welcome to England Tori Amos Kensington Gardens and London Eye[54]
2010 Addiction Andi Fraggs Soho[55]
2010 Forever Dolphin Love Connan Mockasin Elephant & Castle
2010 Louder Katy B
2010 Lights On Katy B featuring Ms. Dynamite Johny Mourgue Vauxhall Arches[56]
2010 Spotlights Kris Zar Matthew Gravelle and Kris Zar South Bank, Greenwich Park, Docklands[57]
2011 People Help the People Birdy London Bridge[58]
2011 Criminal Britney Spears Chris Marrs Piliero Ealing, Stoke Newington[59] and Dalston[60]
2011 With Ur Love Cher Lloyd City[61]
2011 Take a Chance on Me JLS Tower Bridge
2011 Letters Kelly Erez
2011 Just a Kiss Lady Antebellum Shaun Silva
2011 Getting Nowhere Magnetic Man featuring John Legend Docklands[62]
2011 Don't Go Wretch 32 featuring Josh Kumra Docklands
2012 Timebomb Kylie Minogue Christian Larson Soho[63]
2012 One Thing One Direction Declan Whitebloom West End[citation needed] and South Bank[64]
2012 Remedy Professor Green Shoreditch High Street
2012 Candy Robbie Williams Joseph Kahn Spitalfields
2012 Sight of You Tulisa Luke Hyams
2012 This Is Love will.i.am featuring Eva Simons South Bank[65]
2013 Goin' Crazy Dizzee Rascal featuring Robbie Williams Dalston[66]
2013 Crooked G-Dragon Shoreditch[67]
2013 Come to Me Kelly Erez Ben Galster King's Cross[68]
2013 Army of Two Olly Murs Vaughan Arnell ExCeL London
2013 Shooting Star Tara McDonald featuring Zaho Bethnal Green
2013 Better Than Wages Thee Faction Canary Wharf
2014 High Street Dev Hynes featuring Skepta Lucy Luscombe Muswell Hill[69]
2014 Double Bubble Trouble MIA M.I.A. Peckham[70]
2014 Midnight Memories One Direction River Thames and Tower Bridge
2014 Trouble on Oxford Street Skinny Lister Oxford Street[71]
2014 Got No Fans The Wealdstone Raider Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, Westminster Bridge, Parliament Square, West End
2015 Sum of My Parts The Ethical Debating Society Leyton
2015 Whisky Story Example Example and Adam Powell Charing Cross tube station
2016 Blow your mind Dua Lipa Barbican Centre
2016 I Wanna Be Katy B featuring Chris Lorenzo Shoreditch, Trafalgar Square, Tower Bridge[72]
2016 Secret Love Song Little Mix featuring Jason Derulo Frank Borin London Bridge[73] and Tower Bridge[74]
2016 Pretty If You Smile The Meow Meows Melanie Light Shoreditch[75]
2017 Ahoto Mou Sultana Luca Roccini Camden
2017 Don't Delete The Kisses Wolf Alice London Underground
2017 Enemy Janice Vidal Jude Chen [76]
2018 Solo Jennie Han Sa-min Hayes[77]
2020 Numb Elderbrook Aldona Kwiatkowski Shoreditch
2020 Lighter Nathan Dawe ft. KSI Docklands / Crossharbour
2020 Casson The Rubin Waterloo station
2022 Mimi Barks UNDEAD IT OmegaWorks / Harringay[78]
2024 Thank You Postman Ian Chan Rony Kong near Big Ben[79]
2024 Old Jeff Jeffrey Ngai Blair Chan Westminster Bridge, Tower Bridge and London Underground[80]

See also

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Media related to Music in London at Wikimedia Commons

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