Hammersmith appears to be breeding rude songwriters, with Lily Allen and Rik Mayall both some of the most explicit singers in the UK.

Lily Allen, who was born in Hammersmith, has a total of 71 songs, of which 27 are deemed to be explicit in content by online retailer Amazon, getwestlondon has found out.

This means that 38 per cent - nearly two in five - of the Smile singers songs are adult in theme, placing her fourth on the list of the most explicit UK acts.

This score is largely helped by the 29-year-old’s most recent full length album Sheezus which contains 14 songs, eight of which are explicit.

For the highest percentage of explicit songs by a British singer, Rik Mayall takes the prize, with 61 per cent of his 28 songs branded as explicit by Amazon - making him the sixth most explicit singer, song proportion wise, on the whole of Amazon.

Only Canadian rapper Drake, who had 88 per cent of his songs as explicit, US rappers Iggy Azalea, Nicki Minaj, Eminem and Kanye West have a higher proportion of explicit songs.

The comic actor and singer was born in Essex but after he died in Barnes, over the river from Hammersmith, last June at the age of 56, a bench was placed in Hammersmith to commemorate him and his role in Bottom as an on-the-dole ‘lunatic’ living in a tiny flat in Hammersmith.

Also from west London is Hounslow-born rapper M.I.A whose latest album Matangi had 13 explicit songs out of 15, making it the eighth most explicit album by a UK act.

The Paper Planes singer has only just ventured into explicit songs though, as those 13 are the first out of her 69 songs, meaning she is the tenth most explicit UK artist overall.

The most explicit UK singer overall is Hackney rapper Professor Green who had 23 out of 44 songs branded as explicit by Amazon.

Analysis from Amazon looked at over 28,000 songs from 226 artists and the pool of artists were drawn from UK chart successes, so results will have been affected by the fact explicit songs are less likely to be played on the radio.