Petersburg Times commented: ".only the snappy 'Down to London' - which borrows its piano line from Marvin Gaye's ' I Heard It Through the Grapevine' - manages to strike a nostalgic chord." He described the song as "Sixties-style" which "echoes Buffalo Springfield's ' For What It's Worth'." David Okamoto, writing for the St. In a review of Blaze of Glory, Robin Denselow of The Guardian considered the album to be "inevitably patchy" but picked "Down to London" as one of its "moments". During July 1989, Jackson and his band performed the song on The Arsenio Hall Show and Jackson also performed a solo piano version on VH1 New Visions. The song's music video was directed by Julien Temple and produced by Amanda Temple for Limelight. The song was inspired by the early days of Jackson's music career in London. "Down to London" is one of a number of tracks from Blaze of Glory to be autobiographical.
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