Appearances in Popular Culture
The area is the setting of the humorous short story "The Ghoul of Golders Green" (May Fair, 1925) by Michael Arlen. In the Goon Show, a running gag was that the Israeli Embassy was located in Golders Green, owing to the suburb's large Jewish community.
George Harrison recorded an unreleased track called "Going Down to Golders Green". This came about because he would visit members of the pop group Badfinger, who lived at 7 Park Avenue, off North End Road, situated on the borders of Golders Hill Park. Golders Green is the name of a character in the 2002 film 9 Dead Gay Guys.
A second posthumous album release of the music of Pete Ham of the pop group Badfinger is entitled Golders Green. The first posthumous album release was entitled 7 Park Avenue, named after the address of Badfinger's band residence in Golders Green.
Andrew Sanger's novel The J-Word (Snowbooks, 2009) is set in Golders Green. Protagonist Jack Silver is attacked by an anti-semitic mob behind the tube station. He saves a rabbi's life before they turn on him. In 2009 a house on West Heath Avenue was used by TV show The X Factor for the contestants and received press coverage after it was mobbed by fans.
The classical chant Jolly-Bob från Aberdeen by the Swedish singer Lasse Dahlquist, tells the story about a young sailorman from Aberdeen town who is getting married with a damsel from Golders Green.
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