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List of songs about Manchester, United Kingdom.
- The Spinners - "Flowers of Manchester"
- Shifty - "Manchester"
- The Times - "Manchester"
- Lionrock - "Snapshot on Pollard St."
- Lionrock - "Wilmslow Rd."
- Ian Brown - "Longsight M13"
- Beautiful south - Manchester
- Brian and Michael - "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs" (And parts of Ancoats where I used to play; about Manchester artist L. S. Lowry)
- Doves - "Northenden"
- Doves - "M62 Song"
- Davy Jones - "Manchester Boy"
- The Durutti Column - "28 Oldham" (The address of Factory Records' DryBar FAC201)
- The Durutti Column - "Longsight Romance"
- Eels - "Manchester Girl"
- Elbow - "Station Approach"
- Elbow - "Forget Myself"
- Elbow - "Great Expectations" (About the 135 Bury-Manchester Bus Route)
- Elbow - "Grounds for Divorce" (About The Temple, a bar in Manchester)
- Inspiral Carpets - "Sackville" (About the red light district in Manchester)
- The Fivepenny Piece - "City of Manchester"
- Gomez - "Whippin' Piccadilly"
- Marie Laforêt - "Manchester et Liverpool"
- Mint Royale - "From Rusholme with Love"
- Oasis - "Round Are Way"
- Oasis - "Half The World Away"
- Pomona (folksong) - Music hall song
- The Fall - "Cheetham Hill"
- The Fall - "City Hobgoblins" (Queen Victoria is a large black slug in Piccadilly Manchester)
- The Fall - "Fit And Working Again" (Reception room, Victoria Station)
- The Fall - "Bury"
- The Freshies - "I'm in Love With the Girl on the Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk"
- John Shuttleworth - "You're Like Manchester"
- The Smiths - "Cemetery Gates" (about Southern Cemetery)
- The Smiths - "Rusholme Ruffians"
- The Smiths - "Miserable Lie" (What do we get for our trouble and pain but a rented room in Whalley Range?)
- The Smiths - "Suffer Little Children" (Oh Manchester, so much to answer for; about the Moors murders)
- The Smiths - "The Headmaster Ritual" (Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools)
- Aidan Smith - "Song for Manchester"
- The Stone Roses - "Mersey Paradise" (seeing as it runs through South Manchester)
- The Stone Roses - "Daybreak" (from Atlanta, Georgia to Longsight, Manchester)
- Joyce (singer) - "The Band on the Wall"
- Ewan MacColl - "The Manchester Rambler"
- Hair soundtrack - "Manchester"
- Take That - "Mancunian Way"
- The Courteeners - "Fallowfield Hillbilly"
- The Courteeners - "The Opener"
- Tractor - "Peterloo"
- Tractor - "Drunken Angels and Sad Clowns aka- Manchester"
- John Cooper Clarke - "Beasley Street"
- Herman's Hermits - "It's Nice to be Out in the Morning"