<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/simongarfunkel-lincolnmay.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1735" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/simongarfunkel-lincolnmay.jpg" alt="simon&amp;garfunkel-lincoln(may" width="200" height="150" /></a>It is one of our greatest regrets that we never managed to see Simon &amp; Garfunkel in concert and it was with some trepidation that we decided to book to see The Simon &amp; Garfunkel Story at Lincoln Royal Theatre.

We needn't have worried because Dean Elliott (Simon) and Dean Ringer’s (Garfunkel) interpretation is part tribute act and part West End show. To an ear so used to the original songs, it occasionally jarred but if you took the show as a whole – a celebration of 50 years since the release of the seminal The Sound of Silence – then it more than ticked most if not all the boxes.

With a supporting band, the pair sang and chatted their way through almost two hours of iconic music and memories. The renditions of He was my Brother, Scarborough Fair, America and Feelin’ Groovy were the high points. When it was just Ringer, Elliott and his guitar – which was finger-picked perfectly – you could suspend reality, squint and believe you were back in the 60s.