ELVIS Presley would have turned 81 on January 8, but he left the building on August 16 1977, since when has grown a peacock parade of Elvish Presleys, matching his Vegas flares but never quite his flair in a plethora of tribute shows.

The thing is, Elvis Presley is never allowed to leave the building. The King is dead, long live the King of Rock'n'Roll, be it shows such as Lee Memphis King's concert celebration or Priscilla Presley deeming it appropriate to stick the ghost of Elvis's voice on new orchestral re-workings by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Last autumn's album, If I Can Dream, duly gave Elvis his 12th UK number one.

Lee Memphis King is one of the better Presley acts; his One Night Of Elvis is in fact Two Nights Of Elvis, the first being a re-creation of Elvis's man-in-black '68 Comeback Special; the second re-staging one of his 1,100 shows in glittering white in Las Vegas.

King looks the part, he moves like Elvis, smiles like Elvis, sings in the Presley mode, warm and caressing without quite the full richness and velvet allure, and he talks like...Lee Memphis King, letting his own personality permeate the surface in stories of Elvis, impressions of Prince Charles (cue "King" gags) and banter with Thursday's decent-sized audience. They play their part too, particularly the woman in the dress circle who tells him his suit should have been tighter fitting.

Photographs and film footage of Elvis add to the nostalgia, and King is accompanied by a swell band, brass section, female backing singers et al. In one of the best sequences, King's Elvis sits in a row of acoustic guitarists while the drummer keeps busy making indents on a guitar case.

His song selection is spot-on, with room for trips down early rock'n'roll memory lane; If I Can Dream in the '68 Special white suit; In The Ghetto and Let It Be Me and two unexpected stand-outs, Never Been To Spain and It's Midnight with a veil of darkness that presages the fall to come.

The big hitters are knocked clean out of the theatre: Burning Love, Always On My Mind, American Trilogy, Suspicious Minds with strobe lighting, topped off with Can't Help Falling Love. Only then can King's Elvis leave the building...until One More Night Of Elvis another night, another town.