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6 Music Festival 2020 coming from Camden makes perfect sense - it's a place with a musical legacy like hardly any other place.

Ahead of this year's event, here are six songs that hold a firm place in Camden's history and share its unique spirit - from the fiery uproar of punk to some modern day gems.

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Based in Camden during their formative years as a band, famously rehearsing at their Rehearsal Rehearsals base in a rundown railway storage shed, we could have picked any of the tracks from The Clash's 1976 self-titled debut (the artwork of which was shot at a nearby Camden Stables stairway) to sum up its surrounding area - the political defiance of 'White Riot', which typified the charged punk spirit of Camden during the mid-to-late 70s, or even the carefree partying of '48 Hours' or sardonic nihilism of 'London's Burning'.

But 'Complete Control', which was written the following year as a response to their label forcing them to release a single against their wishes, is a bold middle-finger to establishment that more purely embodies Camden's DIY spirit (even if it was recorded at Whitechapel's Sarn East Studios rather than in North London). As the band themselves put it: "'Complete Control' tells the story of conflict between two opposing camps. One side sees change as an opportunity to channel the enthusiasm of a raw and dangerous culture in a direction where energy is made safe and predictable. The other is dealing with change as a freedom to be experienced so as to understand one's true capabilities, allowing a creative social situation to emerge."

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Anyone who thinks Camden's just about indie bands should think again. In fact, its music legacy is as varied and eclectic as the area itself - especially in the late 80s, where you'd find scores of soul and jazz clubs, sound system parties and record shops full of dub and reggae.

Soul II Soul formed in Camden during 1988 (where they - can you get any more Camden that that?) and released their two most famous hits a year later: 'Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)' and 'Keep on Movin''. Its the latter song, the video to which features scenes shot around Camden canal and market) that sums up Camden the most, with its self-acceptance, belief and desire to always move things forward.

It's all in the title - perhaps the most literal ode to Camden Town ever penned. The 90s were a fruitful time for music in Camden, with Britpop pretty much born in the area - the infamous Blur/Oasis feud even owes its origins to a bust-up at the local Good Mixer boozer. But its Suggs' lighthearted 1995 tribute to the melting pot he called home that's the most succinct love letter to the area at this time (and remains relevant today), paying homage to everything from "drunken buskers" to market stalls full of "old bric-a-brac". Set to a reggae backdrop, the Madness frontman even manages to rhyme "tapas" and "fracas" with "Portuguese maracas".

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Few artists are as synonymous with Camden as Amy Winehouse. She lived for many years on Camden Square () and even has a statue erected in her honour in Stables Market.

'You Know I’m No Good' is one of Winehouse's best known and most loved songs, and with very good reason. It's poignant and mournful whilst still possessing a cocky swagger. The song opens with the lyrics "Meet you downstairs, in the bar and hurt. Your rolled up sleeves and your skull t-shirt", which very well could have been penned about Camden's very own Hawley Arms, Winehouse's favourite local haunt.

Just like Suggs' track, this 2005 song by The Libertines is paean to Camden, as well as a rose-tinted look back at the band's own place in the history of the Camden scene. Pete Doherty and Carl Barat's band will forever be synonymous with the area, living together at a flat they labelled "The Delaney Mansions' on Camden Road when they first formed the band and gaining word-of-mouth success with a series of guerrilla shows. (perhaps taking inspiration from fellow Camdeners before him, Soul II Soul) in 2013. Thanks to The Libertines and their peers, Camden was arguably the centre of British music for a long stretch during the 2000s.

Referencing the nearby Rochester Square and Holloway Road, as well as the legendary Trash and Lordy Lord club nights, the song captures all the excitement and camaraderie of a night on the tiles in North London: "Like tin soldiers responding to the call / To Camden we will crawl / One and all."

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'Beautifully Unconventional', one of the standout tracks from Wolf Alice's Mercury Prize-winning 2017 album 'Visions of a Life', has been by singer Ellie Rowsell (herself a North London native) as "a celebration of all your non-conforming friends; a celebration of individuality and the adventures that come with embracing that." Inspired by 1989 teen classic Heathers, the lyrics recast Rowsell as Christian Slater's character JD and her best friend as Winona Ryder's Heather, someone who "sticks out so sorely" yet is "beautifully unconventional". But the song could so easily be an ode to Camden itself, perfectly encapsulating what draws many to a place like Camden and the sense of escape and belonging that can be found there.