Editing Neasden (section)

==Neasden in popular culture==
;"The loneliest village in London"
Neasden was once nicknamed ‘the loneliest village in London’.<ref name="Hidden London"/>

;''Private Eye''
Neasden has achieved considerable notoriety due to the British [[satire|satirical]] magazine, ''[[Private Eye]]''. Since early in its history (when the magazine was actually printed in Neasden) the magazine has used Neasden as an exemplar of the suburban environment in pieces parodying current events, personalities, and [[social mores]] (for example, the [[University of Neasden]]). Spoof sports reports in the magazine usually feature the perennially unsuccessful football team, [[Neasden F.C.]] with their manager, "ashen-faced" Ron Knee and their only two supporters, Sid and Doris Bonkers.{{cn|date=March 2025}}

;''Metro-land''
Neasden was one of the locations in the TV documentary ''[[Metro-land (TV)|Metro-land]]''. In it, Sir [[John Betjeman]] described Neasden as "home of the gnome and the average citizen" (the former a reference to the preponderance of gnome statuettes in suburban front-gardens, but possibly also a nod in the direction of the Eye's fictional proprietor, Lord Gnome). Background music was provided by [[Willie Rushton|William Rushton]]'s recording of Neasden (1972) ("Neasden/You won't be sorry that you breezed in").

;BBC Radiophonic Workshop
In a spoof of the [[Early Music]] phenomenon which grew in the late 1960s, Neasden was selected by [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop]] composer [[David Cain (composer)|David Cain]], as the home of a fictional ensemble dedicated to [[historically-informed performance]]s on authentic musical instruments from an indeterminate number of centuries ago. It was thus that in 1968, listeners to [[BBC Radio 3]] were given a recital by the Schola Polyphonica Neasdeniensis, whose members performed on the equally fictional Shagbut, Minikin and Flemish Clackett.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hnewbury.uklinux.net/music.htm|title=Music|date=5 November 2001|access-date=9 July 2022|archive-date=5 November 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011105130132/http://www.hnewbury.uklinux.net/music.htm|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>

;Athletico Neasden
Athletico Neasden was an amateur football team of mostly Jewish players, which played in the [[Maccabi (sports)|Maccabi]] (Southern) Football League in the 1970s and 1980s and was named after the place, though it did not actually play in the area. The team eventually merged with North West Warriors to form North West Neasden.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tffc.co.uk/NewFiles/ripmsflclubs.html|title=Temple Fortune Football Club|website=Tffc.co.uk}}</ref>

;Literature
David Sutherland's children's novel ''A Black Hole in Neasden'' reveals a gateway to another planet in a Neasden back garden. Diana Evans's 2006 novel, ''26a'', details the experiences of twin girls of Nigerian and British descent growing up in Neasden.{{cn|date=March 2025}}

;Victorian Order medals
[[Willie Hamilton]] reported in 'My Queen and I' that the Victorian order medals were made on a production line in Neasden from used railway lines.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-457-1/dissemination/pdf/vol02/vol02_12/02_12_311_313.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602095153/http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-457-1/dissemination/pdf/vol02/vol02_12/02_12_311_313.pdf |archive-date=2009-06-02 |url-status=live|title=The Grange, Neasden|author=Michael Dewe|website=Ads.ahds.ac.uk|access-date=9 July 2022}}</ref>

;Dread Broadcasting Corporation
A pirate radio station, [[Dread Broadcasting Corporation]], credited as Britain's first black music radio station,<ref name="bbc">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/bhm05/years/1980.shtml|title=BBC - 1Xtra - Black History Month - 1980|website=Bbc.co.uk}}</ref> was broadcast from a Neasden garden between 1981 and 1984.