Editing River Thames (section)

===Music===
The [[Water Music (Handel)|Water Music]] composed by [[George Frideric Handel]] premiered on 17 July 1717, when [[George I of Great Britain|King George I]] requested a concert on the River Thames. The concert was performed for King George I on his barge and he is said to have enjoyed it so much that he ordered the 50 exhausted musicians to play the suites three times on the trip.

The song 'Old Father Thames' was recorded by [[Peter Dawson (bass-baritone)|Peter Dawson]] at [[Abbey Road Studios]] in 1933 and by [[Gracie Fields]] five years later. [[Jessie Matthews]] sings "My river" in the 1938 film ''[[Sailing Along]]'', and the tune is the centrepiece of a major dance number near the end of the film.

The [[Sex Pistols]] played a concert on the ''Queen Elizabeth Riverboat'' on 7 June 1977, [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s Silver Jubilee year, while sailing down the river. The choral line "(I) ''(liaised)'' live by the river" in the song "[[London Calling (song)|London Calling]]" by [[the Clash]] refers to the River Thames.

Two songs by [[the Kinks]] feature the Thames as the setting of the first song's title and, for the second song, arguably in its mention of 'the river': "[[Waterloo Sunset]]" is about a couple's meetings on [[Waterloo Bridge]], London and starts: "Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, flowing into the night?" and continues "Terry meets Julie, [[London Waterloo station|Waterloo station]]" and "...but Terry and Julie cross over the river where they feel safe and sound...". "[[See My Friends]]" continually refers to the singer's friends "playing 'cross the river" instead of the girl who "just left". Furthermore, [[Ray Davies]] as a solo artist refers to the River Thames in his "London Song".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kindakinks.net/discography/showsong.php |title=Kinks Song List |publisher=Kindakinks.net |access-date=2 April 2012 |archive-date=7 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207032616/http://www.kindakinks.net/discography/showsong.php |url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Ewan MacColl]]'s "Sweet Thames, Flow Softly", written in the early 1960s, is a tragic love ballad set on trip up the river (see [[Edmund Spenser]]'s love poem's refrain above). [[Culture Club]] are travelling the River Thames in a riverboat in the video for "[[Karma Chameleon]]". English musician [[Imogen Heap]] wrote a song from the point of view of the River Thames entitled "You Know Where To Find Me". The song was released in 2012 on 18 October as the sixth single from her fourth album [[Sparks (Imogen Heap album)|Sparks]].<ref>[http://www.imogenheap.com/tag/you-know-where-to-find-me/ You Know Where To Find Me] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017051728/http://www.imogenheap.com/tag/you-know-where-to-find-me/ |date=17 October 2012 }} . Imogen Heap. Retrieved on 17 July 2013.</ref>