Editing St John's Wood (section)

==In popular culture==

===Music===
* [[The Rolling Stones]]' 1965 song, "[[Play with Fire (The Rolling Stones song)|Play with Fire]]", includes the lyrics:<ref>{{Cite web |last=Uitti |first=Jacob |date=2023-07-10 |title=6 Songs You Didn't Know Charlie Watts Wrote for the Rolling Stones |url=https://americansongwriter.com/6-songs-you-didnt-know-charlie-watts-wrote-for-the-rolling-stones/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=American Songwriter |language=en-US}}</ref>
::Your mother she's an heiress, owns a block in Saint John's Wood
::And your father'd be there with her
::If he only could
* [[Robbie Williams]]' 2019 Christmas album song, "Idlewild", includes the lyrics:
::Then I moved into her big old house
::I never been to Saint John's Wood
::There were movie stars and media types
::We were all up to no good
* Violet Hill, a street and area off Abbey Road, is the [[eponym]] for [[Coldplay]]'s 2008 song "[[Violet Hill (song)|Violet Hill]]".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2008/06/13/coldplay-talk-viva-la-vida/|title=Coldplay Talk 'Viva La Vida'|last=Halperin|first=Shirley|date=2008-06-12|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|page=3|access-date=2008-11-01|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202061533/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20206487_3,00.html|archive-date=2008-12-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Rob|last=Harvilla|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-06-17/music/coldplay-s-insurmountable-fire/|title=Coldplay's Insurmountable Fire|access-date=2008-08-29|date=2008-06-17|work=[[The Village Voice]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080717165253/http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-06-17/music/coldplay-s-insurmountable-fire/|archive-date=2008-07-17}}</ref>
*[[Queen (band)|Queen]]'s videos for "[[Keep Yourself Alive]]" and "[[Liar (Queen song)|Liar]]" were filmed at St John's Wood Studios, a former film studio on St John's Wood Terrace, in 1973.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-08-16 |title=Queen: Footage of band's first ever recorded performance is sensational |url=https://www.smoothradio.com/artists/queen/freddie-mercury-first-video-recording-keep-yourself-alive/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=Smooth |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Duran Duran]]'s video for their first single, "[[Planet Earth (Duran Duran song)|Planet Earth]]", was shot at St John's Wood by [[Russell Mulcahy]] in 1980.
* [[The Housemartins]]' 1986 video for their pop song hit "[[Happy Hour (The Housemartins song)|Happy Hour]]" was recorded at [[The Star, St John's Wood|The Star]] pub on St John's Wood Terrace.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |date=2018-12-04 |title=The Housemartins: how we made Happy Hour |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/dec/04/the-housemartins-how-we-made-happy-hour |access-date=2023-12-08 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
* [[Arctic Monkeys]]' 2007 video for "[[Teddy Picker]]" was recorded in St John's Wood, including at [[RAK Studios]] and [[The Star, St John's Wood|The Star]].

===Literature===
* In [[Wilkie Collins]]'s 1859 [[sensation novel]] ''[[The Woman in White (novel)|The Woman in White]]'', Count and Countess Fosco live at No. 5 Forest Road, a fictional address in St. John's Wood.
* In [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s 1891 [[Sherlock Holmes]] story "[[A Scandal in Bohemia]]", [[Irene Adler]] lives in Briony Lodge, on Serpentine Avenue, a fictional address in St John's Wood.
* In the first instalment of [[John Galsworthy]]'s ''[[The Forsyte Saga#The Man of Property (1906)|The Forsyte Saga]]'', ''The Man of Property'' (1906), Young Jolyon lives with his second wife and family on Wistaria Avenue, a fictional address in St John's Wood.
* In [[P. G. Wodehouse]]'s ''[[Jeeves and Wooster]]'' short stories and novels, written from the early 1920s onward, [[Bingo Little|Bingo]] and [[Rosie M. Banks|Rosie]] live in St John's Wood.
* The protagonist of [[J. G. Ballard]]'s 2003 novel ''[[Millennium People]]'' is a psychologist who lives in St John's Wood, which he abandons to join a middle-class rebellion.
* St John's Wood is the setting for [[Howard Jacobson]]'s 2004 book ''The Making of Henry'' and is the planned location for the Museum of Anglo-Jewish Culture in his 2010 [[Man Booker Prize]] winning novel ''[[The Finkler Question]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2004-05-31 |title=The Making of Henry  by Howard Jacobson |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2004/may/31/digestedread.theeditorpressreview7 |access-date=2023-12-08 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

===Film and television===
* The short-lived 1990s sitcom ''[[Babes in the Wood (TV series)|Babes in the Wood]]'' was set in St John's Wood.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Heritage |first=Stuart |date=2015-09-22 |title=Brideshead Revisited or Celebrity Wrestling: the best and worst of ITV |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/sep/22/brideshead-revisited-celebrity-wrestling-best-worst-itv-60 |access-date=2023-12-08 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
*''[[Bedazzled (1967 film)|Bedazzled]]'', ''[[30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia]]'' and ''[[The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer]]'' were filmed at the former St John's Wood Studios.<ref>{{Cite web |title=St John's Wood Studios |url=https://www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk/independent-tv-studios/st-johns-wood-studios/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=TV Studio History |language=en-US}}</ref>
* Owing to the conveniently close location to [[Elstree Studios (Shenley Road)|Elstree Studios]], (just over 10 miles), St John's Wood was used extensively for location shooting for many of the [[ITC Entertainment|ITC]] adventure shows of the 1960s and 1970s, including [[The Saint (TV series)|''The Saint'']], ''[[Return of the Saint]]'', ''[[Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)]]'', ''[[The Persuaders!]]''.
* The former [[Marlborough Road tube station]] appears in ''[[Metro-Land (1973 film)|Metro-Land]]'', a 1973 documentary presented by [[John Betjeman]].
* Henstridge Place and Woronzow Road featured in the "Give Us This Day Arthur Daley's Bread" episode of the popular UK television series ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]''.
* [[Peter O'Toole]] (actor) died at the Wellington Hospital 2013 in St. John's Wood aged 81, and is considered one of the greatest actors of any generation, he attended [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art|The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] in London.