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New figures show millions of visitors attended concerts and festivals across the UK in 2025, with major tours helping drive record spending. The North West saw music tourism contribute £1.4 billion to the regional economy.

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00:00Neil Young, Joe Bonamassa and Hoover III.
00:05The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
00:08I would say Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bridget Bardot, The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Dua Lipa.
00:18I'm going to see Deaf School and it's 50 years since they've last performed in the Philharmonic and they're doing
00:30the 50 year revival.
00:34I can't think of anyone else.
00:36I mean, I'm only an amateur lover of classical music, you know, I've got no in-depth knowledge of it.
00:42I just like to listen to it. I like to listen and sometimes go to concerts.
00:49My brother here went to see a band called 10CC at the top rank in Liverpool, not far from here,
00:55in the early 70s.
00:57I didn't want to go because I didn't like 10CC. They were too poppy for me.
01:01But the support band were an unknown band at the time called Queen.
01:08And let's say Coldplay.
01:10Bradley Mercury split his trousers and had to go off and change his trousers.
01:16But I've since told that story and other people on the radio have said the same story.
01:24And I think he must have done it as a...
01:28Like a bit.
01:29Matthew Sandman
01:29Yeah.
01:30OK.
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