Here’s a list of the songs that I performed in public for the first time during May 2025. Each month I aim to play at least one new song from each of the following repertoires:

Songs that reached #1 in the UK.

Songs that reached #1 somewhere else.

Songs that have not reached #1 anywhere.

Songs that reached #1 in the UK

Date	Song (Artist, Year it reached #1)	Notes
Sun 18-May-2025	It’s All in the Game (Tommy Edwards, 1958)	The first #1 with a writing credit by a Nobel Prize Winner
Sun 18-May-2025	Ballad of John and Yoko (Beatles, 1969)	The last Beatles #1 in the UK
Fri 23-May-2025	Some Might Say (Oasis, 1995)	The first Oasis #1

Songs that reached #1 somewhere else

Date	Song (Artist, Year it reached #1)	Notes
Sun 11-May-2025	War (Edwin Starr, 1970)	Prompted by the 80th anniversary of VE Day

Songs that have not reached #1 anywhere

Date	Song (Artist, Year it reached #1)	Notes
Sun 11-May-2025	Run Rabbit Run (Flanagan & Allen, n/a)	Also prompted by the 80th anniversary of VE Day, a song I first heard on an old 78, back in the 1960s
Sun 11-May-2025	I’d Rather Leave While I’m in Love (Rita Coolidge, n/a)	#2 in Canada, but not a hit in the UK
Sun 11-May-2025	Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Bob Dylan, n/a)	“I’m going back to New York City, I do believe I’ve had enough”