Oh baby, you know what I like!!

Last night the Garrick Theatre, Lichfield played host to the rockingest show around. Rockin' on Heaven's Door, as the name implies, features artists who are no longer with us such as the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Eddie Cochran and, of course, the King. The only living rock 'n' roll icon in the show is the Killer himself Jerry Lee Lewis who opened the show.
He got us off to a rocking good start which included a piano in flames, before introducing the Big Bopper who gave us his only hit Chantilly Lace. He then acted as MC and told us that unfortunatlet Eddie Cochran was unable to appear. Shame!Next up was Buddy Holly. He really looked the part being long and tall with the heavy framed glasses etc. After his set came the Big O, Roy Orbison. I must admit, I was apprehensive that anyone would be able to replicate the unique sound of Roy but I needn't have worried. He took to the stage dressed all in black and sporting the dark shades, and with the minimum of effort , as per the Big O himself, proceeded to give us some of those great soaring ballads.
The second half opened with the King himself. We were disappointed that he concentrated on the Vegas years as we would have preferred to have had the old fifties hits. He wasn't the best Elvis we have seen, that honour going to Kevin Paul, who lives the part of the King. However, he made a good stab at it and some of the songs he did were pretty good. For the finale, the whole cast were on stage rockin and rollin and had the audience on their feet singing along to Johnny B Goode. All in all it was fun night out which kept moving along at a frantic pace.
For those of you who are wondering, Yvonne managed to stay in her seat for the whole show. but we did have a job stopping Terry singing 'Cwying' along with Roy Orbison as per the classic Del Boy sketch