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Even now I can't help wondering whether or not I had the wrong venue and instead of watching of my greatest rock hero, I was really watching some new kind of game show.
All the ingredients of a game show were there — a host, who certainly looked like Elvis, pouring out the cliches, a special guest, in this case Andrew "Scully" Schofield, and to top it all, a huge glittering wheel referred to as "the sensational spinning songbook".
Written on this wheel were the titles of various Elvis tracks, and lucky members of the audience were invited up on stage to take turns in spinning the wheel.
Fun though this was to begin with, the constant breaks in music for a quick chat with overwhelmed fans soon grew tedious.
Being an avid Elvis fan, I'd looked forward to having all my favourite Elvis songs immortalised that night.
Almost half the songs sung were cover versions of tracks by The Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Troggs, even ABBA!
All were brilliantly sung, and tracks like "Ferry 'Cross The Mersey" went down a treat with the Liverpool fans. But tracks like "Watching the Detectives," "Good Year for the Roses" and many other classics were left out.
At the beginning of the concert, minus the Attractions, he stood up on stage with just an acoustic guitar for company and sang numbers like "New Amsterdam" and "Shipbuilding" to a hushed crowd of hundreds, and in each case his voice sounded just as great as it does on vinyl.
In between he would chat to the audience as if they were a pub crowd.
It was certainly different, but altogether I must admit the concert was a disappointment. Maybe I'm just out of touch with the music fashion, but oh! for the days when concerts were just non-stop music.
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