Oh my Lord!!
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I think itād be cool to find specific unknown places quoted in songs, especially if you go there specifically because of the song. So, the corner in Winslow, Arizona is awesome. But San Francisco and New Yorkā¦ not so much.
I will take it to the extreme:
Across The Universe
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There is an Irish folk song called Carrickfergus, which mentions Kilkenny. I once took a trip to Irelandā¦Carrickfergus was not practical to visit, but Kilkenny was!
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Can you find āWolf Creek Passā? there is a hint in the lyrics. I have been there. Road is all new now.
How about āBlack Bear Roadā. 
I canāt find it now on Google even though I know where it was years ago.
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Bruce Springsteen sings about my hometown 
Where Romeo would have stood under the window/balcony in Verona ā¦I went there with my girl (and other people we new), but I didnāt want to go up and stand on it and neither did she
Greetings 
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2 that come to mind off the top of my head are;
Summer in Dublin (posted here recently)
London calling- the clash (I have been to London more times than I can remember).
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I look forward to your photos from Portage and Main, though you may want to save that one for the summer months. 
Last year I bought LPs of David Bowieās Low and Lou Reedās Berlin in Berlin. Also visited the Hansa Studios where David Bowie & Co. recorded the āHeroesā and Lust for Life albums and worked on Low and The Idiot.
Iāve been to Paris several times and Iām sure the city has inspired hundreds of songs. I really like this one:
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Eddie @Eddie_09 , since you are mentioning Dublin as a ālyricā place I also have been to, it reminds me that Brian @brianlarsen just recently mentioned:
as yet an other song related to Dublin. And, of course, not to forget, Molly Malone, as performed by Richard @Richtrfc (copied by the "Dublin"ers - or maybe it was it the other way around? 
)!
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Very cool! I donāt know this song but the video with two prairie boys was great.
Iāve been on the corner of Portage and Main in all four seasons so if anyone else is thinking of visiting take Richardās advice and go in the summer.
Cheers
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One of what I assume is only a small handful of songs about how awful the weather can be.
No street corners in this one, itās more of a very long line just west of Winnipeg. I hear itās where the Great Plains begin. . .
At The Hundredth Meridian
Very cool. I really like those kind of stories here in the community.
How about the place āwhere the streets have no nameā¦ā ?
for āa horse with no nameā.
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That one might be tricky.
I googled that one to see what it references. As back in the 90ās, I visited Dublin and saw Bonoās mansion from the beach, so I thought there might be a chance Iād be able to claim it. On the songās wiki page, I found this quote:
Bono, who compared many of his lyrics prior to The Joshua Tree to āsketchesā, said that āāWhere the Streets Have No Nameā is more like the U2 of old than any of the other songs on the LP, because itās a sketchāI was just trying to sketch a location, maybe a spiritual location, maybe a romantic location. I was trying to sketch a feeling.ā
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Did anyone ever drive down Knopflerās Telegraph Road, which should be in Michigan?
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I used to go to a used bookstore on Telegraph in Berkeley, but I guess that isnāt the same
Lots of songs feature streets, highways, etc, e.g.
Positively 4th Street, Highway 61 Revisited (Dylan)
Bleecker Street, 59th St. Bridge (Simon & Garfunkel)
Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty)
10th Avenue Freeze-out (Springsteen)
On Broadway (George Benson)
Ventura Highway (America)
53rd and 3rd (Ramones)
and of course, Penny Lane.
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Andrea @Helen0609 , thatās funny! I wasnāt aware of Mark Knopflerās song, but I spent a large part of my youth in and around Detroit and spent a lot of time on Telegraph. I remember school shopping at the Tel-12 (Telegraph and 12-mile Road) Mall. I know what Iāll be listening to later today. Thanks!
John @jjw, I went to college in Berzerkely, so Iām familiar with Telegraph Avenue as well! Would you be referring to Moeās?
All that said, no song ever inspired me to visit either Telegraph - the Road or the Avenue. 
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Yes! I believe it was Moeās. I never lived in Berkeley, but I visited friends there on occasion and would generally try to stop in at Moeās and Rasputin Music. Yes, Telegraph Ave. definitely has a certain āatmosphereā. 
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Yes, I know. Since Iāve first heard Telegraph Road many, many years ago, this road was burnt into my musical mind 
. T.R. and Baker Street are the two of them I will always remember 
@judi
So funny! Since I heard the song for the first time, I was so mesmerized of this beautiful song and had a certain idea, how Telegraph Road would look like. Whenever I listen to it, my mind travels to other places and I dream of infinite widths of land in the US .
Iāve never been in Michigan, I maybe only crossed the state whilst flying from Denver to NY with a stopover in Chicago. Was a night flight after the stop to NY, so maybe I crossed it by plane and some of those thousand lights Iāve seen were at TR, who knowsā¦
Hope you enjoyed that!
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Love it! This exact song and location is on my bucket list hope to do it someday.
Adding to the list:
Bob Marley home/museum - listening to Redemption Song, sitting on the rock Bob liked to sit on and play guitar, and (per the guide), where he composed that song.
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