Editing Tottenham Court Road (section)

==In popular culture==
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===Art===
William Hogarth's painting ''[[The March of the Guards to Finchley]]'' is set outside the Adam and Eve at the northwest end of Tottenham Court Road.{{sfn|Wheatley|2011|p=389}}

===Music===
[[Pink Floyd]] played many early concerts at the [[UFO Club]] at 31 Tottenham Court Road, where they were the house band.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1523635/Syd-Barrett.html "Syd Barrett"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010045857/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1523635/Syd-Barrett.html |date=10 October 2016}} (obituary), ''The Daily Telegraph'', London, 12 July 2006.</ref> The road is referred to in the lyrics of [[Underworld (band)|Underworld]]'s ''[[Born Slippy .NUXX]]''.{{cn|date=December 2022}} [[The Kinks]] reference the road in their 1970 song "Denmark Street".

[[The Pogues]] mention Tottenham Court Road in the 1984 song "Transmetropolitan", written by [[Shane MacGowan]].

[[David Gray (British musician)|David Gray]] references Tottenham Court Road in the song "Everytime" on his 1996 album ''[[Sell, Sell, Sell]]''.

===Books===
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Tottenham Court Road is mentioned in many works of [[fiction]]. It is featured briefly in ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' by [[J.K. Rowling]] when Harry and his friends are escaping from Death Eaters; in Robert Golbraith's CB Strike mystery series it is featured in the first five novels; in Diana Gabaldon's novel ''The Fiery Cross'' (Outlander series) it is featured in character Roger McKenzie's flashback/forward of 1960s London; in ''[[The Woman in White (novel)|The Woman in White]]'' by [[Wilkie Collins]]; in ''[[Mrs. Dalloway]]'' by [[Virginia Woolf]]; in ''[[Postern of Fate]]'' by [[Agatha Christie]]; in ''[[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'' by [[George Bernard Shaw]]; and in ''[[Saturday (novel)|Saturday]]'' and ''[[Atonement (novel)|Atonement]]'' by [[Ian McEwan]].

It is also mentioned in several [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]; in the [[Saki]] story "Reginald on Christmas Presents"; several stories by [[John Collier (fiction writer)|John Collier]]; in ''[[A Room with a View]]'' by [[E.M. Forster]]; in ''[[The London Eye Mystery]]'' by [[Siobhan Dowd]]; in ''The Late Mr Elvesham'' and ''[[The Invisible Man]]''<ref>''The Invisible Man'', Chapter 21 and 22</ref> by [[H. G. Wells]]; in ''The Wish House'' by [[Celia Rees]]; in the short story "Rumpole and the Judge's Elbow" from the book ''[[Rumpole's Last Case]]'' by [[John Mortimer]]; in a [[The Matrix]]-based story, "Goliath", by [[Neil Gaiman]]. It features often in novels by [[Mark Billingham]] and in ''[[The Lonely Londoners]]'' by [[Sam Selvon]]. Sherlock Holmes once said that he purchased his Stradivarius from "a Jew broker in the Tottenham Court Road".

===Films===
It is mentioned briefly as the location where 'I' was allegedly arrested for '[[Cottaging|toilet trading]]' in the 1986 [[Bruce Robinson]] cult-classic movie ''[[Withnail and I]]''. In ''[[My Fair Lady]]'', Mrs. Eynsford-Hill, Freddy's mother, lives in Tottenham Court Road. Also, [[Tottenham Court Road tube station]] is where one person becomes victim to the werewolf's rampage in ''[[An American Werewolf In London]]''.

===Musicals===
In the [[Alan Jay Lerner|Lerner]]-[[Frederick Loewe|Loewe]] musical ''[[My Fair Lady]]'', Tottenham Court Road is mentioned as the place where Eliza Doolittle sells her flowers.

[[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s musical ''[[Cats (musical)|Cats]]'' references the area in the song "Grizabella the Glamour Cat", the lyrics coming from an unpublished poem fragment by [[T. S. Eliot]].

Tottenham Court Road station was replicated as part of the set for the [[Queen (band)|Queen]] musical ''[[We Will Rock You (musical)|We Will Rock You]]'', which played at the [[Dominion Theatre]] between 2002 and 2014, directly above the actual Underground station.