Down in the Park: Ten Songs About Parks. The Provisional IRA Detonates Two Bombs in Hyde Park and Regent’s Park in Central London, Killing Eight Soldiers, Wounding Forty-Seven People, and Leading to the Deaths of Seven Horses. This Day in History, 20/07/1982.
1. Gary Numan ‘Down in the Park’
(from the album Replicas, 1979).
2. Small Faces ‘Itchycoo Park’
(single A-side, 1967).
3. Lou Reed ‘Perfect Day’
(from the album Transformer, 1972).
4. Blur ‘Parklife’
(from the album Parklife, 1994).
5. Richard Harris ‘MacArthur Park’
(from the album A Tramp Shining, 1968).
6. Spandau Ballet ‘To Cut A Long Story Short’
(from the album Journeys to Glory, 1981).
7. Kirsty MacColl ‘Soho Square’
(from the album Titanic Days, 1993).
8. The Cowsills ‘The Rain, The Park and Other Things’
(from the album The Cowsills, 1967).
9. The Zombies ‘Beechwood Park’
(from the album Odyssey & Oracle, 1968).
10. The Doobie Brothers ‘Another Park, Another Sunday’
(from the album What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits, 1974).
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