IF you saw the Beatles jukebox musical show Let It Be at the Grand Opera House last April, then this is sort of the sequel: Macca, the solo years from 1970 to now plus some of the fabbest hits from Paul's Fab Four days

Beatle Paul, or more precisely Beatle Paolo from that show in the West End and on tour, leads this new offshoot in the Italian form of Emanuele Angeletti, whose accent in conversation occasionally slips from the Mersey to closer to the Tiber, but whose singing voice would surely receive a familiar thumbs-up from Paul.

So too would his self-taught left-handed guitar playing, although Angeletti returned to right-handed for a solo section of the show. "Right-handed," said one audience member, possibly thinking aloud too loud as he spotted the anomaly, but it was more a gentle teasing, rather than a red card.

Not only Beatle Paolo was there from Let It Be's West End run; so too were Beatle John (Paul Canning, guitar and keys), Beatle George (John Brosnan, lead guitar) and Beatle Ringo (Luke Roberts, drums), although only Canning took on a designated role as Wings' Denny Laine, Seventies flares and all, hence the inclusion of Go Now from Laine's Moody Blues years.

The first half opened as a tribute to McCartney's Wings Over The World Tour of 1975-76, Macca mullet, shiny trousers, et al, after a scene-setting "visual media projection" that recalled McCartney's exit from The Beatles in 1970.

Macca was there, Denny, and so too Linda, at the back, on keyboards, but not her trademark Victory V salute (as seen, however, in a photo of Paul and Linda and Denny). This is early days, however, for what the announcer called a "very, very brand new show for 2017", only night three of the tour, and details such as Linda's hand gestures can be introduced once they feel natural.

The same applies to the banter between songs, which has to be more off the cuff than the Beatles' familiar repartee that was so much part of their appeal. Here instaed the focus was on the musicianship, assisted by a three-piece brass section and later an extra keyboards player. An opening medley moved from Venus And Mars to Jet and onwards to Listen To What The Man Said and debut solo single Another Day before Angeletti took to the piano for The Long And Winding Road, the first Beatles interjection of the night.

Off the show veered to Macca's one and only disco single, Goodnight Tonight, and by now the night's structure was becoming looser: Yesterday from Beatle yesteryear; Maybe I'm Amazed, Let 'Em In and a grandstanding version of Band On The Run as a finale. No room for C Moon or With A Little Luck, alas.

The show would now "say, say, say goodbye to the Seventies" for a second half ostensibly of Eighties highs. Angeletti went for Pipes Of Peace, Ebony And Ivory and Say Say Say, not Coming Up, The Girl Is Mine or We All Sing Together (alias The Frog Chorus). Live And Let Die and Mull Of Kintyre made late entries; a solo Here Today was a moment of quiet reflection to recall John Lennon, and inevitably Angeletti couldn't resist McCartney's Beatles monuments, Let It Be and of course Hey Jude, the one where we do indeed all sing together, although it really has become an overused finale.