Here’s a list of the songs that I performed in public for the first time during June 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 1-Jun-2025	Rock Around the Clock (Bill Haley & The Comets, 1955)	The biggest selling record of the 1950s in the UK
Sun 22-Jun-2025	Help! (Beatles, 1965)	Trying to add to my repertoire of Beatles songs. After all these years I should probably know a few more of them

Songs that reached #1 somewhere else

Date	Song (Artist, Year it reached #1)	Notes
Sun 1-Jun-2025	Ode to Billy Joe (Bobbie Gentry, 1967)	#1 in the USA, and in preparation for the events of two days later: “It was the third of June …”
Sun 15-Jun-2025	How Great Thou Art (Howard Morrison, 1981)	#1 in New Zealand, a Grammy winning recording by Elvis Presley, and the “Castaway’s Choice” when John Cooper Clarke appeared on “Desert Island Discs”

Songs that have not reached #1 anywhere

Date	Song (Artist, Year it reached #1)	Notes
Sun 15-Jun-2025	Mind Games (John Lennon, n/a)	A song that mentions Druids, learnt and performed just before the Summer Solstice
Sun 15-Jun-2025	You Gave Me a Mountain (Elvis Presley, n/a)	A rarely performed Elvis song, also Frankie Laine’s last hit (1969) when it made #1 in the Billboard Easy Listening chart
Sun 15-Jun-2025	Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (Willie Nelson, n/a)	Willie Nelson’s first Country #1, also the last song that Elvis Presley sang before he died
Sun 29-Jun-2025	Handbags and Gladrags (Rod Stewart, n/a)	I have heard this played by other people many times, time to try it for myself
Sun 29-Jun-2025	Drive My Car (Beatles, n/a)	A song I have known all the words to for over 50 years, and now I know the chords as well