BEATLES BUSK-A-THON
I'm performing EVERY BEATLES SONG on the guitar to raise money for Dementia Revolution.
It's my contribution to Mark Watson's 26.2 hour Comedy Marathon at the Pleasance Theatre, London on Wednesday 27th Feb.
No chord books, no lyric sheets, just me and my memory and my guitar.
I've done some maths, and the total number of songs recorded by the Beatles (not including covers or bootlegs or stuff from the Anthology) is 186. That's just over 9 hours, not including toilet and vocalzone breaks.
Will you sponsor me? If you do, you get to sponsor your favourite Beatles song! Hurry up! All the good ones will get taken, and you'll have to have your name next to Don't Pass Me By.
Actually, genuinely, please do sponsor me. First of all, Dementia is a cause very close to my heart. My grandpa lived with Alzheimer’s for the last years of his life. His slow decline was extremely hard for my whole family - especially my grandma. And second of all, my voice is going to really hurt and my fingers are going to literally bleed.
So, go on. Won't you please please help me? With a little help from my friends across the universe, there'll be a revolution! Don't let me down! Now give me money - that’s what I want! If you never give me your money, then I'm a loser. Hot diggetty Beatles!
Check below to see which songs are still available, put the title of your chosen song in the donation message, and I'll add you to this page!
Sponsors
| Song | Sponsor |
|---|---|
| A Day In The Life | Gordon Mackenzie |
| A Hard Day's Night | Vincent |
| Across The Universe | Benjamin Chan |
| All I've Got To Do | AVAILABLE |
| All My Loving | Andrew W |
| All Together Now | Judy/mum/nanny |
| All You Need Is Love | James Finegan |
| And I Love Her | Terry - NeelyFanForever |
| And Your Bird Can Sing | BeatleTodd |
| Another Girl | Matthew Haddow |
| Any Time At All | Martin B |
| Ask Me Why | AVAILABLE |
| Baby You're A Rich Man | Nicola Scarlet and James |
| Baby's In Black | AVAILABLE |
| Back In The USSR | Dan Woods |
| Because | Joe Moed |
| Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite | Ryan Blank |
| Birthday | Sam |
| Blackbird | Tim Boxall |
| Blue Jay Way | Pete Burgess |
| Can't Buy Me Love | Vlad and Yulya |
| Carry That Weight | AVAILABLE |
| Come Together | Tim H |
| Cry Baby Cry | AVAILABLE |
| Day Tripper | Ben Bawden |
| Dear Prudence | Alistair |
| Dig A Pony | Jenny |
| Dig It | Ashley Lawrence |
| Do You Want To Know A Secret | Scott Tyler and Bees |
| Doctor Robert | lukenluken |
| Don't Bother Me | Heather Newton/Kirsty's Sister |
| Don't Let Me Down | Gabriel Nordstrom |
| Don't Pass Me By | Daniel Growcott and the Worst Foot lot |
| Drive My Car | Ryan J Murphy |
| Eight Days a Week | Daniel Swift & Laura Shaw |
| Eleanor Rigby | S Rock |
| Every Little Thing | Gareth Burgess |
| Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey | Darren |
| Fixing A Hole | Rohan |
| Flying | AVAILABLE |
| For No One | Polished |
| For You Blue | AVAILABLE |
| From Me To You | Geofftech |
| Get Back | DjAvren |
| Getting Better | Louis Bradburn |
| Girl | Stuart Mc |
| Glass Onion | Mike & Snood |
| Golden Slumbers | Grayson Healy |
| Good Day Sunshine | Evelyn |
| Good Morning Good Morning | Cathryn |
| Good Night | AVAILABLE |
| Got To Get You Into My Life | FLUNG ABOOT |
| Happiness Is A Warm Gun | Ian C |
| Hello Goodbye | Marcel madjo de Jong |
| Help! | Kraken DWaggin |
| Helter Skelter | Tom C |
| Her Majesty | Jamie Silk |
| Here Comes The Sun | Cat and Guy |
| Here, There And Everywhere | Alan Cameron and Helen Thornton |
| Hey Bulldog | James M |
| Hey Jude | foxhill_matt |
| Hold Me Tight | AVAILABLE |
| Honey Pie | Damien Corti and John |
| I Am The Walrus | Peter Booth |
| I Call Your Name | AVAILABLE |
| I Don't Want To Spoil The Party | AVAILABLE |
| I Feel Fine | Adam Hughes |
| I Me Mine | AVAILABLE |
| I Need You | AVAILABLE |
| I Saw Her Standing There | David Gould |
| I Should Have Known Better | AVAILABLE |
| I Wanna Be Your Man | AVAILABLE |
| I Want To Hold Your Hand | Michael |
| I Want To Tell You | Bob |
| I Want You (She's So Heavy) | John B |
| I Will | AVAILABLE |
| I'll Be Back | Mark T (for AICSA) |
| I'll Cry Instead | AVAILABLE |
| I'll Follow The Sun | Jack D |
| I'll Get You | AVAILABLE |
| I'm A Loser | AVAILABLE |
| I'm Down | AVAILABLE |
| I'm Happy Just To Dance With You | Katt - For Sally, Annie, Mary & Daisie |
| I'm Looking Through You | Jenna |
| I'm Only Sleeping | Matthew (for mummy) and Jamie Boden Johnson |
| I'm So Tired | Anonymous |
| I've Got A Feeling | AVAILABLE |
| I've Just Seen A Face | Robbie |
| If I Fell | AVAILABLE |
| If I Needed Someone | Dave Hepple |
| In My Life | Simon Gibson |
| It Won't Be Long | AVAILABLE |
| It's All Too Much | Mark Gillies |
| It's Only Love | Jamie and Claire Haxell |
| Julia | Jooliargh |
| Lady Madonna | Rebecca Breeze |
| Let It Be | Barnaby Frowen |
| Little Child | AVAILABLE |
| Long Long Long | AVAILABLE |
| Love Me Do | Caroline for Nicky |
| Love You To | AVAILABLE |
| Lovely Rita | Jamie Shoesmith |
| Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds | Fergus Drake |
| Magical Mystery Tour | Kim and the Severn Bronies |
| Martha My Dear | Mattophobia |
| Maxwell's Silver Hammer | Ben Southwood |
| Mean Mr Mustard | Kai Krueger |
| Michelle | Don - AndromedaNerd |
| Misery | AVAILABLE |
| Mother Nature's Son | AVAILABLE |
| No Reply | AVAILABLE |
| Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) | Conor |
| Not A Second Time | AVAILABLE |
| Nowhere Man | Mathias&Anna Moser |
| Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da | Monory |
| Octopus's Garden | Jon Ball - Tidmouthmilk12 |
| Oh! Darling | Ben Van der Velde |
| Old Brown Shoe | Stuart Ashen |
| Only A Northern Song | Dan Grenier |
| P.S. I Love You | Nicky Rowe |
| Paperback Writer | Nick Buckley |
| Penny Lane | Damian Tichborne |
| Piggies | Alex Pounds |
| Please Please Me | Bradley Gill |
| Polythene Pam | AVAILABLE |
| Rain | Stanlycam |
| Revolution | Kieran Jones |
| Revolution 1 | AVAILABLE |
| Revolution 9 | Iain Lee, Katherine Boyle and The Late Night Alternative listeners |
| Rocky Raccoon | Tony Bennett |
| Run For Your Life | AVAILABLE |
| Savoy Truffle | AVAILABLE |
| Sexy Sadie | AVAILABLE |
| Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | Jordan Chew |
| Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise | Katy Lawson and Matt Coll |
| She Came In Through The Bathroom Window | Phil R |
| She Loves You | James |
| She Said She Said | AVAILABLE |
| She's A Woman | AVAILABLE |
| She's Leaving Home | James Crabtree |
| Something | Rowan |
| Strawberry Fields Forever | The Ranty Highwayman |
| Sun King | AVAILABLE |
| Taxman | Selwyn Foreman |
| Tell Me What You See | AVAILABLE |
| Tell Me Why | AVAILABLE |
| Thank You Girl | AVAILABLE |
| The Ballad Of John And Yoko | Anna Lowman |
| The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill | AVAILABLE |
| The End | Mike Greene |
| The Fool On The Hill | Andrew Slash Frank |
| The Inner Light | DaveDogFacedBoy |
| The Long And Winding Road | P Eyles |
| The Night Before | AVAILABLE |
| The One After 909 | AVAILABLE |
| The Word | AVAILABLE |
| There's a Place | AVAILABLE |
| Things We Said Today | AVAILABLE |
| Think For Yourself | AVAILABLE |
| This Boy | AVAILABLE |
| Ticket To Ride | John Son |
| Tomorrow Never Knows | Andy Elms |
| Two Of Us | AVAILABLE |
| Wait | AVAILABLE |
| We Can Work It Out | James March |
| What Goes On | AVAILABLE |
| What You're Doing | AVAILABLE |
| When I Get Home | AVAILABLE |
| When I'm 64 | Dan and Nadia |
| While My Guitar Gently Weeps | Samuel Boshier and Daniel Woodrow |
| Why Don't We Do It In The Road | Laura |
| Wild Honey Pie | AVAILABLE |
| With A Little Help From My Friends | Daniel Burling |
| Within You Without You | Stuart |
| Yellow Submarine | Seamus |
| Yer Blues | AVAILABLE |
| Yes It Is | AVAILABLE |
| Yesterday | Cathy |
| You Can't Do That | Jeanette Muff |
| You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) | Red Jam Spear |
| You Like Me Too Much | AVAILABLE |
| You Never Give Me Your Money | Matt |
| You Won't See Me | AVAILABLE |
| You're Going To Lose That Girl | AVAILABLE |
| You've Got To Hide Your Love Away | Steph Weeks |
| Your Mother Should Know | Hilary T |