Elvis to play the NEC!

Here's something we never thought we'd announce. Elvis Presley is to perform in concert at the NEC . . . sort of.

In fact a live band, including some of the King's original musicians will be playing live to a giant video screen featuring some of Elvis's most celebrated performances.

It's the famed production which was the high point of Elvis Week 2007 when it was performed as the 30th Anniversary Concert at the Fedex Arena in Elvis's home city of Memphis, Tennessee. Now, two years on, Elvis is on tour "One More Time".

The tour arrives at the LG Arena on Saturday, February 20, 2010. Tickets priced £33.50 and £35 plus booking and transaction fees go on sale at 9am this Friday, April 24.

Members of the TCB Band, Sweet Inspirations, The Imperials and Full Orchestra under the direction of Joe Guercio will perform a full two-hour concert including Elvis's greatest hits and performances.

Elvis sings lead vocals on video, as his songs and arrangements are played live by 21 musicians including some of his original band mates, backing vocalists and full orchestra.

The producers have edited together a collection of Elvis's finest concert performances that exist on film and video and removed all sound from the footage except for Elvis's vocal track.

The Elvis footage is projected on state-of-the-art video screens. All music heard in the concert production is performed live.

Elvis concert footage for the show comes primarily from the MGM concert films Elvis, That's The Way It Is (1970) and Elvis on Tour (1972); outtakes from these two films as seen in the video package entitled Elvis, The Lost Performances; and the historic 1973 global television special Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii, via Satellite.