Booker T's Green Onions kicked things off nicely with that delicious Hammond organ sound so immediately identifiable with Georgie Fame.

Back in 1959 impresario Larry Parnes was dishing out catchy show-biz names to Marty Wilde and Billy Fury - that's when Fame got his.

He was 16 then. Aged 71 now, he can name drop the entire history of popular music. Count Basie, Hendrix, Van Morrison, the evening was littered with anecdotes and fascinating nuggets, such as it was Eddie Cochran who introduced this country to Ray Charles.

Charles has been a big influence on Fame and was mentioned regularly as he made his way through the years, playing Yeh Yeh, Bonnie and Clyde, and all the songs the packed crowd came to hear.

Sons Tristan (guitar) and James (drums) provided a tight backing for their dad's familiar vocal, still as groovy and swinging as it was in the 1960s.

The man talked about his hit Getaway as his pension scheme, but there was little sign of him slowing up. "I will bop until I drop," he quipped.

Mose Allison's poignant song Was finished the one-and-three-quarter-hour show and an emotional evening in the company of a national treasure.