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Retirement Songs

Forty years of work, in one song at the leaving do.

Commissioned by colleagues, teams or families — a send-off that beats a card signed by everyone in the building.

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An older couple embracing at the end of a jetty at sunset

A retirement song is commissioned by colleagues or family and played at the leaving do — an original piece about their actual career, not a generic tribute.

What to tell us

You do not need to arrive with a finished story. These are the sorts of details that make a song feel like it could only be about one person.

  • What they actually did, in plain words
  • The nicknames and the in-jokes
  • The disaster everyone still talks about
  • Who they trained, helped or looked after
  • What the room should feel when it plays

Songs like this

A row of stone houses and chimneys, seen through a window

Maple Street

Family story

60s pop

The first family home, and the people who filled it.

Reflective · 1960s
A yellow and white Tyne and Wear Metro train waiting at a suburban platform under a bright, cloudy sky
Indie pop

The Metro, the clubs at the end of the line, and the years in between.

Uplifting · 1980s
A figure on a stormy beach, umbrella turned by the wind

Wind and Rain

Celebration of a life

Acoustic

A marriage, remembered through the weather.

Emotional · Timeless

Questions

Can the whole team contribute stories?
Yes. Collect them however is easiest and paste them in — we are used to working from a pile of half-remembered anecdotes.

Create a song from your story

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