The 'Journey' 

Watch The 'Big' screens as 'The Journey' begins on a smoke filled night in London during late September. The year is 1940 and London has been under constant bombardment for many months. The sounds of Air raid sirens, anti-aircraft fire from the shore batteries up and down the Thames, together with the piercing whistle of falling bombs is heard, as search lights and flames rake the venue. Churchill is speaking from the cabinet war room in Whitehall and can be heard on the radio.... Unshaken by the danger, Glenn Miller and his band strike up and defy the might of the German Bombers overhead.

In 'The Mood' shakes up the dance floor and for those, less encouraged to dance, the band's plasma screens depict scenes of actual footage from the Blitz. Enter the Andrews Sisters, still dressed in their US army uniforms, who perform some of their hits; 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy From Company B,' and 'Don't sit under The Apple Tree.'

1940

The Fifties

Moonlight Serenade
The Air Raid Begins (Put On Your Tin Helmets)
In The Mood
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree

The Band

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The decade of the Fifties gave birth to Rock and Roll. When Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock became popular in 1955, the nation learned to swing to a whole new sound.

But, Rock wasn't the only music of the Fifties. Other artists with other songs had folks hummin' for much of the decade. 
The feel-good innocence of a lot of the Fifties music reflects on the post World War II optimism in America and England.. The young people of the time, an emerging force called teenagers, hadn't struggled through the war years. They were looking for something more exciting. They discovered that vitality in Rock and Roll.

During the Fifties both styles of music co-existed quite nicely.
Some of the music you associate with the Fifties was actually recorded in the Sixties. Blue Moon, by the Marcels, for example. And all of the "girl groups" are from the 60's. When you look at the dates, musically the styles tend to break off mid-decade. The tunes from '55-'64 are pretty much alike. Things don't change much until the British musical invasion of U.S. and the U.S. military invasion of Vietnam, from around '64-'74.

Sleepwalk
Lollipop
Rock Around The Clock
Summertime Blues 
Peggy Sue
Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On
Unchained Melody

Neil & The Boys
Girls & Boys
Phil  & The Band
Girls & Boys
Neil 
Dave & The Band
Jools & Shara

The Sixties

Music at the beginning of the 60s was a sanitised commercial version of mid fifties American rock'n'roll. By then, Billy Haley was out of the picture and Elvis was as much a movie star as a rock'n'roll singer. In Britain, the melodic sounds of Cliff Richard and Adam Faith competed with the Everly Brothers from the US for the top spot in the music charts. There were young stars like Helen Shapiro, who started her career with four top 3 hits. The favourite dance, the Twist, was enjoyed by the middle aged as well as the young. The rebellious origins of rock'n'roll seemed to be no more than a passing fad. Pop music still played on the juke boxes in the coffee bars of the early 60s. However, many teenagers looked to jazz as a form of rebellion.

In October 1962, four lads from Liverpool, dressed in smart Italian style suits and with mop hairdos, had their first UK hit "Love Me Do"; it reached a modest number 17. A year later, their fourth chart hit "She Loves You" became the best selling single of the sixties in the UK. The Beatles had arrived. Thousands of screaming school girl fans and the rest of the country greeted a phenomenon as yet unknown on these shores.

The Beatles changed everything. They were not officially the first group from Liverpool to have a number one hit though, Gerry and the Pacemakers beat them to it by a month. The Beatles though, were far from just another group. They put pop music in the news and they heralded the British invasion of the US charts.

Dancing In The Street
I heard It Through The Grapevine
You Really Got Me
Bend Me Shape Me
Black Is Black
Do Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Do
Everytime You Walk In The Room
Mony Mony
Wholly Bully

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Girls & Boys
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Dave & Band

The Seventies

The seventies were a time when a new generation of youthful people were exposed to new media and hence newer ideas in almost every field. TV and motion picture brought to varied audiences images, lifestyles and music from diverse regions and peoples. This led to the emergence of a new vocabulary and experimentation in music

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Shara
Jools
Girls 


Dave & Band
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Dave & Band
Dave & Band
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Phil & Dave
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Phil & Dave
Girls

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Dave & The Band
Dave & The Band

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The Eighties

By the 80s, pop music was part of the fabric of life. It was literally everywhere. On countless new radio stations, on movie soundtracks, in restaurants, in supermarkets and even in lifts . . .

The explosion of music found its way into the tabloid press as newspapers started covering the antics of pop stories as major news stories, and into an overwhelming number of new music and style magazines. And most importantly of all, it found its way on to television. 

When MTV , the music video channel, was launched in the US in the summer of 1981 it changed our view of music overnight. Suddenly it was important what music looked like, as well as how it sounded

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Against All Odds
The Greatest Love Of All
Billie Jean
Ain't Nobody
Crazy Little Thing Called Love 
I Got The Music In Me 

Your evening begins with images of events that took place during each of the decades leading from 1940 up to the '2000's. Almost an hour and a half of footage accompanied by music that was made famous through each of the decades.

Midnight Boulevard's four 42" Plasma screens enable diners to enjoy our decades presentation regardless of where they are seated and the multi speaker sound system ensures that the music is audible throughout the venue without interupting conversation.

The Commitments  
Proud Mary
Mustang Sally
Bring It On Home To Me 
Alone

Soul Medley:
River Deep, Mountain High
Sweet Soul Music
We Are Family

Elvis Tribute:
2001 Intro/That's alright mamma
Its Now Or Never
Jailhouse Rock
Hound Dog
Blue Suede Shoes
American Trilogy
I Say A Little Prayer For Me

Blues Brothers Tribute
SFX - Blue Brothers Entrance
Everybody Needs Somebody
Shake Your Tail Feather
Gimme Some Lovin'
Think 
 

Sunshine Medley  
Walking On Sunshine
La Bamba 
Twist & Shout
Do You Love Me?
Jump In The Line

ABBA Tribute
Does Your Mother Know?
Dancing Queen
Mamma Mia

Disco Medley
That's The Way I Like It
Car Wash
Lost In Music
Mercy

The 'Boys' open the show with two numbers - 'Time Is Tight' by Booker 'T' and the MG's and 'Let's Dance' by Chris Rea, these are warm-up numbers for our audiences and herald the entrance of the stars of our show - Jools & Shara, who perform 'Lady Marmalade' , 'California Dreaming' and 'Never Can Say Goodbye'  which always get the audience moving and ready for the main event - 'The Journey'

As the girls leave the stage, the countdown begins on the 'Big Screens' and the time tunnel
launches us back in time to 1940.

The Nineties

• The 1990s were a decade of many diverse scenes in music, however they are perhaps best known for teen pop, grunge, Eurodance and electronic dance music, and for being the decade that hip hop and alternative rock became mainstream.
  Grunge music, and the culture marketed around it, born out of the Pacific Northwest American states of Washington and Oregon, becomes a fad in 1991 with the success of Nirvana and similar groups following.

• Freddie Mercury, Kurt Cobain, Selena, Tupac Shakur, and The Notorious B.I.G. are the most publicized music-related deaths of the decade, in 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 respectively.

Finishers

Higher & Higher
Long Train Running
All Right Now
You're Still The One
Wind Beneath My Wings

Jools & Shara
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