Many of these groups and artists have sought lyrical inspiration from their home city.
But it’s not just the artists hailing from Sheffield who have referenced the city in their music, with songs from famous Londoners like The Clash and Stormzy, and Watford’s Elton John, also paying musical homage to the Steel City.
We’ve put together a list of songs mentioning Sheffield.
One of the bands featured is even named after a city suburb, while others have penned lyrics dripping with nostalgia for the Sheffield of yesteryear and some of the tracks celebrate the here and now.
The likes of Pulp, the Arctic Monkeys and Richard Hawley have famously mined their Sheffield roots to spectacular effect when writing their songs, but not all bands from the city have taken the same approach.
Def Leppard’s lead singer Joe Elliott once reportedly described his native city as a ‘great place with great people’ but said 'there’s nothing in Sheffield to write songs about’.
Some of the band’s early songs were instead inspired by a bit of escapism from the drudgery of the members’ daily lives in Sheffield before they hit the big time.
Speaking of their 1980 song Hello America, Joe Elliott once said he and his bandmates had never even been to America at that point, and he was ‘working in a factory with lots of nuts and bolts and no natural light’.
After watching a glamorous US TV show, he recalled thinking ‘wow, this is a lot sexier than Sheffield’, and described the lyrics he subequently wrote about taking a trip to California as him effectively saying ‘get me out of here’.
17. Oyl Int Road - Everly Pregnant Brothers
The Everly Pregnant Brothers are a Sheffield institution and one of their biggest hits is about long-lost city centre landmark the Hole in the Road. Oyl Int Road, sung to the tune of the Waterboys' The Whole of the Moon, takes listeners of a certain age on a trip down memory lane, with lines like: "Well you walk down from Fargate/With the wind in your hair/You come down escalators/Cause they didn't have no stairs." The lyrics also reminisce about the Hole in the Road's famous fish tank, though the band are not too misty eyed, acknowledging 'them fish didn't look nice'. Photo: National World
18. The Dream Synopsis - The Last Shadow Puppets
The Last Shadow Puppets are an English supergroup consisting of the Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner and Miles Kane, James Ford and Zach Dawes. The Dream Synopsis finds Alex reminiscing about his Sheffield past and looking to the future. It includes the lines 'you’d got a leaning tower of pint pots in your hand/you can carry much more than I can', which is perhaps him looking back to his days working at the lost Boardwalk music venue. The chorus describes how 'a wicked gale came howling up through Sheffield city centre, there was palm tree debris everywhere and a Roman colosseum'. It's unclear whether the palm tree debris and colosseum are merely figments of Alex's imagination or refer to actual memories of his Sheffield days. | Getty Images Photo: Getty Images