How do you like London

Sheet music for the popular music hall song 'How do you like London' or 'Did it hurt you much' with lyrics by T. S. Lonsdale and music by W. G. Eaton. The song was popularised by the Great Vance. The colour lithographed cover by Alfred Concanen depicts the music hall artiste dressed typically as a 'swell' in fashionable check print trousers and waistcoat carrying a walking stick thus reflecting the lines in the song that parody the swell including 'How did you get those trowsers on, & did it hurt you much?'.

The Great Vance was one of the fashionable 'swells' of the music hall, known collectively as the Lions Comiques. The fashionable evening dress of the Lions Comiques performers contrasted greatly with the cloth-cap coster cockney image adopted by many other music hall performers. Along with George Leybourne and Arthur Lloyd The Great Vance had a reputation of living the high life and it was commented, in the late 19th century, that these Lions Comiques were men who set women just a little higher than their bottle.