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Until then the 62-year-old Yorkshire crooner had been reprising his Seventies heyday so well that many, lulled by his smooth baritone and dazzled by his 10-piece band, had fallen into an overawed, idol-induced trance. This wasn't any fault of Christie's: from the moment the comeback king arrived on stage, replete with shiny three-piece suit and tidy bouffant, he gave his all.

Holding the mic down low, little finger extended, he opened with the suave Avenues and Alleyways, bopped to If It Feels Good Do It and - before a fiery backdrop - came over all Elvis on Las Vegas.

The pulsing, Jarvis Cocker-penned hit Walk Like a Panther was followed by a velvet-voiced Rat Pack medley; sadly, there was no Merry Christmas Everybody, Christie's laidback reworking of the Slade single and the potential Christmas Number One.

But there was, of course, that song. Two bars in to Show Me the Way to Amarillo, the house lights were up and the audience were on their feet, reprising their own Seventies heydays.

Tony Christie