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Battersea appears in Morrissey's song "You're the One for me Fatty" (he sings "all over Battersea, some hope and some despair"). Big Audio Dynamite also referenced it in their 1986 song "Sightsee M.C!" Battersea is a title of a Hooverphonic song, and also appears in a title of a Super Furry Animals' song - "Battersea Odyssey." The song "Battersea" is the opening track of Jimi Jamison's 2008 solo album Crossroads Moment. Babyshambles have a song titled "From Bollywood to Battersea". Battersea features in the books of Michael de Larrabeiti, who was brought up in the area: A Rose Beyond the Thames recounts the working-class Battersea of the 1940s and 1950s; The Borrible Trilogy presents a fictional Battersea, home to the Borribles. Battersea is also the setting for Penelope Fitzgerald's 1979 Booker Prize-winning novel, Offshore. Referenced many times in parliament in The Goon Show "The pong in Battersea." British rock group Pink Floyd featured an inflatable flying pig over the Battersea Power Station on the cover of their 1977 album Animals. Michael Flanders, half of the 60's comedy Flanders and Swann often made public fun at Donald Swann for living in Battersea. The musical 'Rockford's Rock Opera' is set here. The Battersea Power Station is the location of the "DC Compound", a compound used for several gymkhana missions in the game Dirt 3.
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