BILLED as “the feelgood show of the year”, the Stateside spectacular Soul Legends show is coming to Grays.

The promoter’s claim is that it “features more soul classics than any other production” – songs o r i g i n a l ly recorded by the likes of Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Michael Jackson, Barry White, George Benson, Lionel Richie, Sam and Dave, Eddie Floyd, Chaka Khan, Edwin Starr, Earth Wind and Fire, the Emotions and Kool & the Gang.

Show producer Michael Taylor says: “It’s all aboard the sensational soul train show of the year.

“We embark from soul’s heady Sixties origins...steaming, non-stop through to the present day, via everyone’s favourite Seventies and Eighties dance classics.”

Taylor says the production features a talented cast of gifted musicians, elaborately authentic costumes and jaw-dropping choreography, with the aim of doing justice to the passion and fervour of everyone’s favourite soul classics.

Expect to hear songs such as Respect, Soul Man, Ain’t Nobody, Knock On Wood, Midnight Hour, Proud Mary, You’re My First, My Last, My Everything, Best Of My Love, River Deep, Mountain High, Ain’t No Stopping Us Now, Beat It, Three Times a Lady, Get Down on It and I Feel Good.

The show is coming to the T h a m e s i d e Theatre, in Orsett Road, Grays on Friday, February 12.

Tickets cost £22 and available now from the box office. on 0845 3005264 and from t h u r r o c k .gov.uk/theatre