Check out my new song! This is a song of self-reflection, looking back on opportunities missed with a bit of 'woe is me' thrown in as well, all told through the medium of the three and a half minute cheesy pop song! Hope you enjoy, if you do, TELL ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS!

What About Me?

Possibly one of my deepest and most meaningful songs. I think we are all usually stuck between what we want and what we need! Hope you all enjoy it! x

What I Want

A new catchy little pop song, totally fictional about a mythical lady from the 1960's called Sunset Rose. Hope you enjoy hearing her story...

Sunset Rose

Check out John's new song, 'Working Out The Game' - You're a year in, it's time for the relationship appraisal, you have more questions than answers... "sparks fly and light up the early sky" ... "is it me? is it you? is it both of us just making do? Are we normal? Are we strange? Maybe we're just working out the game... "

Working Out The Game

After a difficult Summer I found peace in the most distant of places: Kyoto, Japan. This song sums up the events and my feelings r.e. this summer (2014).

Still

Here is a new song very much influenced by a recent Pet Shop Boys concert I attended. The single word title, dirty synths and semi-offensive lyrics represent their style a little. This song is about an associate who has really wound me up the wrong way of late, in a business sense, mentioning no names! 

Sophisticated

A simple little pop song about love on both a personal and whole-world level. Hope you enjoy. 

Set Us Free

Dream Away... the full version of a previously uploaded acoustic video. 

Dream Away

Turn Tomorrow Into Yesterday

My shot at a Christmas Song. If you're looking for cheesy pop like Wham or even cosy little old school Christmas songs then you've come to the wrong place! Think reflective Christmas along the lines of Joni Mitchell's great song, River. I hope you enjoy it, written in a coffee shop in Newcastle, late November this year.

The Christmas Of My Childhood

A gospel-influenced love song. Written and recorded November/December, 2018.

Falling for You

A slightly psychotic song about the instability of the human mind in relation to love! What's your reality?

Reality

In August 2019 I visited Rishikesh, India. I went to the ruins of the Ashram where The Beatles stayed and studied transcendental meditation. I was inspired to write this song.

Imagine That

A pop song about not being able to wait forever for someone, even though you know they're probably the one.

I Can't Wait For You

A little pop song which builds into a euphoric, synth-y summer tune! Check it out!

Make It Work This Time

This song is looking to the future in the current covid-19 crisis. It is a song of hope. 

Written on 22nd September 2020, Newcastle UK
Recorded on 23rd September 2020, Newcastle UK

©John Hopkinson 2020 (This music is protected under copyright law. Permission to use this music must be obtained exclusively from John Hopkinson.

Once More

This song is about an old man I sat next to in a bar in Vienna, he told me his fascinating life story of growing up in East Germany and this song just evolved from that.

Not Sure Now (Cold War Kids)

John is a singer-songwriter from Newcastle in the North East of England. Most of the songs are piano driven but John plays every instrument on the tracks you hear on Soundcloud. The songs are inspired by all aspects of life, from movies to real-life situations and that subject we all can't get enough of: love.

John Hopkinson

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