Editing Skid row (section)

== Popular references ==
*"[[The Wall Street Shuffle]]" by [[10cc]] mentions Skid row in the lyrics.
*"[[Skid Row (American band)|Skid Row]]" is the name of an American heavy metal band formed in [[New Jersey]].
*"[[Skid Row (Irish band)|Skid Row]]" is also the name of a Dublin, Ireland-based blues-rock band from the late 1960s and early 1970s that included such musicians as singer [[Phil Lynott]] and guitarist [[Gary Moore]], both of whom later were part of [[Thin Lizzy]]. Conversely, a "skid row" is mentioned in the Thin Lizzy song "Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed", from the 1976 album ''[[Johnny the Fox]]''.
*[[Kurt Cobain]], playing in a band that at the time had no name, came up with the name "Skid Row" to put on the marquee at a gig on the spur of the moment. That band's name would change frequently after that. He would later go on to form [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ian Halperin|author2=Max Wallace|title=Who Killed Kurt Cobain?: The Mysterious Death of an Icon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DsDU2DsewtYC&pg=PA26|year=1999|publisher=Carol Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-8065-2074-2|page=26}}</ref>
*[[List of warez groups#SKIDROW|SKiDROW]] is one of the prominent warez groups in software. Whether this is based on the band is unknown.
*''[[Breaking Bad]]'' Season 4 Episode 4 features Jesse turning his house into a Skid Row for homeless people.
*The ''[[Little Shop of Horrors (disambiguation)|Little Shop of Horrors]]'' films and subsequent musical are all set in various downtown neighborhoods called Skid Row and include the song ''Skid Row (Downtown)''. The original 1960 film was set in Los Angeles while the 1982 musical and its 1986 film adaptation were set in New York.
*In [[Alfred Hitchcock|Alfred Hitchcock's]] ''[[Vertigo (film)|Vertigo]]'', Scotty, played by [[James Stewart|Jimmy Stewart]], says "Why, that's Skid Row" in response to hearing a MIssion-xxxx (MI or 64 prefix) phone number. He is referring to the Dogpatch shipyard in San Francisco, on the east waterfront side of Potrero Hill. Back then, the MIssion telephone exchange covered all the southern city.
*In ''[[Rocky]]'', near the beginning of the movie, Mick gives Rocky's gym locker to another prospect who in Mick's eyes deserves it more. When Rocky discovers this on his next visit he says "I've had this locker for six years and you hang my stuff on skid row". There are other various references throughout the [[Rocky (film series)|''Rocky'' films]].
*[[Lana Del Rey]] sings "I wear my diamonds on skid row" on "[[Cola]]", a song from her second studio album titled ''[[Born to Die: The Paradise Edition]]''
*Skidrow is the name of the dystopian neighborhood where the player character of the 1999 video game ''[[Kingpin: Life of Crime]]'' begins his quest for revenge.
*Skidrow is a song on the 1978 album [[Shpritsz]] by [[Herman Brood]].
*The lyrics of the song [[God Part II]] by [[U2]] say “Don't believe in Death Row, skid row or the gangs.”