Lennon Tunes

Every year, around the time of John Lennon's birthday (October 9th), I load up a gig with lots of Lennon solo songs and Beatles tunes. This year I used my regular Thursday night at Rosie's Freo for this purpose. Just for a little bit of posterity, I wanted to keep a record of which songs I threw in.

I started off playing a Lennon or Beatles track every three or four songs in my first set.

SET ONE:

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

Jealous Guy

Woman

No Reply

Help!

Watching The Wheels

Strawberry Field Forever

I employed a similar strategy for my shorter, second set.

SET TWO:

Come Together

Nowhere Man

How Do You Sleep?

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

(Just Like) Starting Over

For my last set, I just decided that it would be all Beatles and Lennon songs. I only had about thirty or forty minutes to go, so why not?

SET THREE:

Mother

Eight Days a Week

Please Please Me

Instant Karma!

Revolution

Across The Universe

From Me To You

Ticket To Ride

Imagine

In My Life

A Hard Day's Night

I think I managed to get a pretty good cross section there. I really wanted to throw in a couple more from the Plastic Ono Band album; namely Love and Isolation. I also dig Nobody Loves You (When You're Down And Out) and meant to give that a guernsey as well. Oh well, you get that. It would cool to do a Lennon Tribute night with a full band one day. I'd actually like to perform the Plastic Ono Band in its entirety with a heap of cool encores.