In Media
In fiction, Sherlock Holmes, Basil the Great Mouse Detective, Sherlock Hound, Danger Mouse, Sexton Blake, Carland Cross and James Black (Case Closed) have all resided along the road.
The character Gregory House from the U.S. TV series House M.D. resides at the fictional Apartment B, 221 Baker Street in Princeton, New Jersey. House M.D. is loosely based upon and inspired by Sherlock Holmes.
"Baker Street" is a song by Gerry Rafferty, released in 1978. He also released an album entitled Baker Street.
"Baker St. Muse" is a song from Jethro Tull's album Minstrel in the Gallery, which was released in 1975.
The 2008 film, The Bank Job was based on the 1971 robbery of Lloyds Bank in Baker Street.
"Some Girls", a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones, makes a reference to the street.
Baker Street is one of a number of London landmarks named in the song "We Are London" by Madness on the album The Liberty of Norton Folgate.
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Famous quotes containing the word media:
“The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.”
—Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)