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As well as the Trevor Burton Band there is an array of talent catering for most musical tastes including The Move featuring Bev Bevan and Trevor Burton, King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys and Birmingham band Suzi & the Backbeats.

Onlookers gathered in the street below as the Backbeats, in bright Sgt Pepper costumes, played some of the Beatles' big hits.

The Backbeats themselves are all good musicians too, while their close vocal harmonising is a real strength of the band.

The band was The Backbeats, a legendary rock and roll band from Penarth.

That is an ace card of The Backbeats -they mess around on stage like The Beatles in all the best footage and yet deliver the goods the way the originals did.

Now in the Backbeats at least I can pay tribute to the man and his music.

And musically the Backbeats are rapidly gaining a reputation as the best Beatle tribute band out there and t hat's before you even consider the charisma of the two leading men, Paul McDonough as Lennon and Chris O'Neill as McCartney.

But The Backbeats' Paul McDonough tells me discussions are underway to take their show - with strings attached - on the road.

One of the best things about the Backbeats is their obvious love of all things Beatle.

Like the other three Backbeats and Water-men he is in his mid-30s.

So from the Backbeat moniker that began from this Telegraph column, to Backbeat Call up the Groups evenings, we now present The Backbeat Society, to organise and mobilise all musicians from the 1950s to the 1980s.

And as I watched the Backbeat Beatles and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra come together in tribute to the greatest band in the world I had to wonder whether someone had slipped a little something into my hugely overpriced glass of wine as well.