Billed as a ‘Beatles show’, ‘Let it be’ is in fact an unabashed tribute concert featuring virtually all of their best known songs (more than 40 of them)and charting their progress from The Cavern Club through the rise of Beatlemania to their psychedelic zenith with masterpieces such as ‘Lucy in the sky with diamonds’ and ‘A Day in the life’.

This was an evening aimed purely at avid Beatles fan, with no room for any but the converted.

The band were impeccable in their impersonations of The Fab Four. Not only in their singing (every harmony and vocal nuance had been closely studied) and their playing (the guitar of George Harrison, aka John Brosnan, was particularly impressive, particularly in ‘While my guitar gently weeps’ with its extended solo-originally played by Eric Clapton) but also in every tiny mannerism.

It is a characteristic of such concerts that many in the audience also feel that they are similarly adept mimics. I spent the evening sitting next to one who was in ‘fine’ voice and who was armed with a clear grasp of the Beatles songbook (probably honed through years of singing in the shower) and felt the need to not only join in the vocals but also to replicate vocally every instrumental riff while also clapping along (sometimes in time).

Despite this added entertainment I still managed to appreciate the quality of the evening’s entertainment. The early songs were impressive in the pinpoint precision of their delivery, and the latter featuring a wide range of colour and emotion with many fine performances – James Fox’s McCartney stood out in numbers such as ‘The Long and winding road’.

Just one gripe – the lighting ( such a big part in the show’s success) was too often used to blind the audience (who were dazzled in so many other ways).