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Duke Special - Sesame Tree

Duke Special has penned the theme tune for BBC Northern Ireland's version of Sesame Street called Sesame Tree.

See him perform with a bunch of muppets at this BBC link.  No I don't mean Chip Bailey and Ben Castle.

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Duke Special - Best Irish Male - Meteor Awards

Duke Special receives his award as Best Irish Male at Ireland's Meteor Awards 2008.  Video

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Duke Special - Shake Rattle and Roll

Another live performance from the hard working Duke Special.  Here he performs Shake, Rattle and Roll at the waiting room, recalling his days of performing in Belfast piano bars.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-p4zdOTHsW4

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Duke Special - Shake Rattle and Roll

Another live performance from the hard working Duke Special.  Here he performs Shake, Rattle and Roll at the waiting room, recalling his days of performing in Belfast piano bars.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-p4zdOTHsW4

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Duke Special Covers Beatles

Duke Special and Dan Black cover the Beatles "Don't Let Me Down".

 Great version (filmed in France, April 2007)

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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

On this RTE fm interview / performance Duke plays some of his own tracks live plus a cover of "Different for Girls" (Joe Jackson) and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by The Band.

 The Friday 28th December show is the one you want if you want to listen.

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Now Play It

On this website, original artists teach the user how to play their songs.  Even if you don't subscribe for the full thing you can view and listen to some previews.  The link is for Duke Special but as you can see lots of other artists take part such as Blur, Queen, David Bowie, Coldplay, Athlete, Gorillaz, Dandy Warhols, Paul McCartney et al.

Tags: Blur David Bowie Queen Coldplay Paul McCartney Gorillaz Athlete

Silent Night - Northern Ireland Artists

Get in the mood for Christmas with this wonderful version of Silent Night by Foy Vance and Duke Special with a Salvation Army Band.

The BBC "Across The Line" Carol Service has many well known bands singing Christmas songs including "Happy Christmas, War is Over" by Starsailor and other songs by The Thrills, the Guillemots and the Dangerfields.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/atl/carols.shtml

Tags: Starsailor The Thrills Arctic Monkeys Foy Vance Amy Winehouse Duke Special Boomtown Rats

Duke Special Leicester Charlotte 8/12/07

A review of this gig and an interview from Record Overplayed is available at the link.

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Duke Special in his front room

This lucky chap has just uploaded these videos on YouTube of the illustrious Duke Special playing in his mother-in-law's living room!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQjMNx5eevY

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiiOZDnvRGU

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0QDOMX2wYY

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGmC0fMlIWI

Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weD9rvLQzt0

Part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB8Cg1AWR8Y

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