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Replay the sounds of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s on a music holiday, says Katie McGonagle
@katie_mcgonagle
strong memories, but music surely has to come a close second. There’s no surer way to spark reminiscences of teenage years watching Top of the Pops or Saturday nights spent boogying around handbags than by hearing the familiar strains of tunes you sang to, danced to and maybe even fell in love to in younger years. It’s not just about taking a
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walk down memory lane – there are hundreds of music holidays catering to clients who are keener to Rock Around the Clock or Twist and Shout than to sing along with today’s chart toppers. Score a hit with your older client base by booking them a
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holiday that takes them right back to the dance floors of the 50s, 60s and 70s – and you might find yourself humming along to a few hit tunes too.
w HITS AND BRITS If there’s one export Brits have all sewn up, it’s our music – from The Beatles and Rolling Stones through to Ed Sheeran and Adele, we’ve been dominating the global charts for more than half a century – so there’s no need to leave home shores to hear those sounds all over again. For fans of the Fab Four – and
that’s pretty much everyone who was alive in the 1960s – Liverpool is a must. The Beatles Story is the standout attraction, with its very own Abbey Road,
Yellow Submarine and Cavern Club replicas. Attraction World sells entry from £15 for adults. If visitors want an even more in-depth experience, Newmarket Holidays’ three-day coach tour Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane & the Cavern Club immerses them in the Merseybeat music scene, with a Beatles coach tour around the city, entry to the Cavern Club, where the Beatles played their earliest gigs, and a ferry ride across the Mersey. Product manager Sonja Okpu
says: “This trip not only offers a nostalgic tour of the places where the history of popular music was changed for ever, on the included Beatles coach tour and entrance to the Cavern Club, but also gives customers
time at leisure should they wish to explore the British Music Experience, where they can see the costumes, memorabilia and instruments from artists such as Freddy Mercury, the Sex Pistols and Dusty Springfield.” Departures run May to September and cost from £189. If all this talk of music makes
you feel like dancing, why not listen to the master of that lyric, Leo Sayer? The 1970s icon will be performing live this year at Bodelwyddan Castle in north Wales, one of Warner Leisure Hotels’ properties aimed at retirees. The singer and his band are set to re-enact hits such as You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, When I Need You and Moonlighting on the hotel’s
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