Mark Pentleton

Before September ends I thought I’d better squeeze this song in! It’s actually been quite a nice day here in Dundalk, Ireland, where I’m working for Apple on the K20 Roadshow, but I’m not sure if the weather at home was quite as nice. I hope therefore that September in the rain was an appropriate [...]

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A big song today: this was voted the number 1 song in the Fans’ Top Ten Beatles Songs. It was written in 1970 by Paul McCartney. I hope you enjoy my performance!
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In Scotland it always seems that we get our best weather in May, so I thought this would be an appropriate song to begin a new month with. It was written by George Harrison one afternoon in 1969 as he walked around Eric Clapton’s garden, playing one of his acoustic guitars!
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Ok, so I couldn’t resist doing a special performance for April Fools’ day! Here’s the real version of the 1968 Beatles classic, Hey Jude. I hope you enjoy this a bit more than my earlier post!
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Welcome to April here on 365 Songs – we’re a quarter of the way through the year and I’ve been working hard on learning this song for April 1st… Here’s Hey Jude, perhaps a little more Les Dawson than the Beatles
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Week 2 begins today – with Yesterday! Beautiful song, first released in 1965. According to the Guinness Book of Records, this song has the most cover versions of any song ever written. Here’s another one to throw into the mix!
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