How I turned my holiday drama into a potential chart hit
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A Sunderland composer has come up with his contender for a holiday hit - 50 years after he had his own Spanish adventure. Derek Buckham has looked back on the year that he and four other young Wearsiders rented a Spanish villa. His reflections come at the same time as he released his latest song on social media, called Have A Holiday. Five decades ago, five Sunderland lads didn’t have enough money to fly to Spain despite having booked a villa there. So they took a car on the 1,150 mile journey...

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