Sentence examples for song cities from inspiring English sources

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"I'm checking it out – I got it figured out," sang David Byrne on the Talking Heads song Cities.

The song featured was an Everlove cover of the Siouxsie and the Banshees song "Cities in Dust".

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Mr. Guthrie had a hit with the Steve Goodman song "City of New Orleans" ("Good morning, America, how are you?").

Soundtracked by Gosling crooning an original song, City of Stars, La La Land reveals itself as self-conscious homage to the traditional Hollywood musical and the city of Los Angeles itself – both referenced in the title.

This is what Zane Lowe does on Beats 1 – bringing obscure Manchester band Spring King to a global audience by making their song City the first track played on Apple's new radio service.

This driver encourages passengers to make selections, though his own favorite is the country music station America (XM channel 10), where he is known as John the Cabby and regularly calls in to request the song "City of New Orleans".

Before taking the big prize for best comedy/musical, it won for its two lead actors, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling; for its score (by Justin Hurwitz); for its song "City of Stars" (by Hurwitz and the Broadway songwriting team Benj Pasek and Justin Paul); and for its direction and screenplay, both by the thirty-one-year-old wunderkind Damien Chazelle.

The experience was one inspiration for the song "City of Blinding Lights".

The song, "City" by  Taiwanese indie band Sodagreen, adds to this juxtaposition of geometrical beauty and haunting strangeness.

"Keep It Greasy" had been performed by Zappa since 1975; the Joe's Garage album version features a guitar solo from a March 1979 live performance of the song "City of Tiny Lights".

In a pitch to the director, Pasek and Paul wrote the proposed lyrics for the song "City of Stars," which garnered the duo a Golden Globe award earlier this year and is nominated for an Academy Award.

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