Warwick Avenue tube station [Oxyman]

FILM and music analysis can go too far and I’ve heard it suggested that Duffy chose Warwick Avenue for her classic break-up ballad because the station is on the way to nowhere and you only end up there if you are lost – like the broken relationship she is singing about.

That’s deep from the vinyl collecting bros, and I suspect she just liked the name and it sort of rhymed with tube. “I got off at that stop and the name just took me by surprise,” she explained after the song became a hit.

Duffy’s hit album

Back then, one or two of her fans would make special pilgrimages to the station, and get to see the church, canal and a green cabman’s shelter.

Time flies and the song is 15 years old this spring and even though Duffy is no longer the household name she was in the noughties, the song lives on and keeps Warwick Avenue on the musical map.

And what other London station has such a well-shared song directly about it?

Waterloo Sunset is top of the charts, but there surely aren’t many others better than Duffy’s tearjerker.