“This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley. I don’t know if Ray was the architect of rock and roll, but he was certainly the first guy to do a lot of things . . . Who the hell ever put so many styles together and made it work?” - Billy Joel.

Live from the Jubilee Auditorium in Canada in 1981, and accompanied by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the late Ray Charles, credited with ‘inventing soul’, funks up some of his most famous songs, performing others with stylish twists and his lively backing singers, The Raelettes.

Interspersed with dialogue with his audience and jokes, his sensational concert features I Can’t Stop Loving You, Take These Chains, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oh, What A Beautiful Morning, I Can See Clearly Now and What’d I Say, the latter preluded by a long and humorous intro in which the soul and jazz legend showcases his yodelling.