Mark Pentleton

Today’s song is a bit poignant: it was 30 years ago today that John Lennon was killed as he and Yoko Ono returned to their New York apartment. Happy Xmas (War is Over) had originally been released in 1971 as a protest song about the Vietnam war. It was released on 20 December 1980 following [...]

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Today’s song is the John Lennon classic Imagine. First released in 1971 on the album of the same name, it soon found its way into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs Which Shaped Rock and Roll. My version is fairly true to the original, although I couldn’t resist a modulation into D [...]

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