In 2010 the collector's label Straight Arrow released a set of two compact discs, which was named "A Private Audience With The King" and features an audience recording of the show on December 8, 1976. Compared to other recordings of this kind, the audio quality is more than solid. The sound carriers are accompanied by a booklet of 16 pages. It includes photos from the concert and an eyewitness account from a Presley fan.

The show starts at 9:00 pm with a pre-show of an hour. Before one can experience the king, one has to endure The Sweet Inspirations, JD Sumner & The Stamps as well as the comedian Jackie Kahane. Finally the candelabras are switched off and raised a little, so that they don't block anybodys view. The orchestra plays an excerpt of "Also Sprach Zarathustra", the band takes over with the "Opening Riff" and Elvis enters the stage. He's wearing the "Blue Swirl Suit", combined with the belt of the "White Two-Piece Suit & Black Ornaments". Charlie Hodge hands him a brown guitar and the show is underway.

While Elvis sings "See See Rider" the usual way, Ronnie Tutt works the drums harder than he normally does. Maybe he feels the need to impel his boss after the previous concerts.

Now the king toys around with the word "well" and remarks, how hard it was to get into the jumpsuit. Then he segues into "I Got A Woman", which includes the usual "Amen" tag. Elvis presents some of his moves from the 1950s, returns to the Ray Charles hit and throws his guitar back to Charlie. He introduces himself as Wayne Newton and receives chocolade from a fan. He passes the gift on to JD Sumner and chats with the audience.

The ballad "Love Me" is sung the usual way.

Even though Elvis has performed Olivia Newton-John's "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)" hundreds of times, he suddenly forgets the words and has to take a look at the lyric sheet. Then he starts again and this time it works out well.

After some comments about the technical equipment in the showroom, the king sings "You Gave Me A Mountain". It's not as powerful as in the movie "Elvis On Tour" or on the album "Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite", but of course Mr. Presley still knows how to sell the song, even though he has to cut some lines short.

The 1950s classic is performed well, even though the arrangement sounds a bit too much like Vegas. But on the othter hand...we are in the city of glitter and the singer looks like he belongs here.

Musically Elvis changes the decade and presents the biggest selling record of the 1960s. Because it's based on "O Sole Mio" Sherrill Nielsen sings the Italian original first. The king follows with his hit version and delivers it very well.

Because of his injury Elvis has to relieve his foot joint and take a seat. Charlie Hodge hands him his guitar and also acts as microphone stand since the instrument of his boss is nothing but a prop and not connected to the sound system. The song itself gets a peasant outing.

The king continues with the a-side of his debut single. He's back to the original country arrangement, which I like very much.

Now a fan asks, if Elvis was coming to England in the near future. The king answers, the undertaking was in preparation. He also promises somebody from Canada to visit the country soon. Today we know, that Elvis never wanted to affront somebody and preferred to make something up to avoid any discussions. At first "Are You Lonesome Tonight" is performed well, but then Charlie pretents the love song is sung to him and starts to act "gay". Elvis also repeats the old joke from 1969 and sings "Do you gaze at your bald head and whish you had hair". All that jazz is not my cup of tea, but in the 70s of the previous century the people were not all that sensitive. At least not, if the "jokes" were not aimed at them.

The audience shouts out further requests and Elvis promises to fulfill them later. But first he wants to stage "Softly, As I Leave You". Here Sherrill Nielsen sings the lead vocal while the king recites the lyrics. It's a beautiful, heartfelt performance.

The singer gets off his chair and gives his guitar back to Charlie. Then he sings a short version of the rock'n'roll classic "Blue Suede Shoes". The rendition is comparable to the version on the album "Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite". It's a quick reminder of everyone's youth, but not much more.

With his first number one hit Elvis fulfills one of the requests from the guitar session. He treats the song with respect and presents it well.

Now Elvis wants to do "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and asks for the lyrics. Well, there was a time when Mr. Presely condescended to rehearse. Today the sound system doesn't function well, too, and so the king has to re-start his presentation twice. At times he sings very high and when he belts out the chorus he doesn't sound as strong and confident as he used to do. But don't get me wrong, at times his voice still sounds impressive.

Before he gets to introduce his band, a man holds up a sign reading "John wants a kiss...". To Elvis' relief he turns it around and the sentence is continued with "...from Kathy". Of course he has his soprano singer grant the request and also asks, if anybody wants to kiss JD Sumner. Then he introduces the musicians and the singers. Each and everyone performs a solo, Elvis himself just throws in short versions of "Early Morning Rain" and "Love Letters". Afterwards the king welcomes 400 members of the british fanclub as well as the singers Liza Minelli and Tanya Tucker and the entertainer Merv Griffin. Of course Elvis also doesn't forget to introduce his father, Vernon Presley.

"My latest record, as far as I know, is called HURT" says Elvis. Well, he's not informed all that well since RCA has issued another single in November. However, his performance of "Hurt" is very good. But the king thinks, that he either made a mistake or something was wrong with the sound system. So he repeates the last part and does even better.

Instead of the usual "Hound Dog" Elvis wants to do the medley of "Mystery Train" and "Tiger Man". The lighting technician is not able to come up with the requested strobe effects and the king can be heard  swearing "damn lights" and "ideots" in-between. He even changes the lyrics of "Tiger Man" and sings "...call my light man back". Even after the performance is over, Elvis cannot help but make some remarks about the situation. The performance itself is quite good. Elvis doesn't move as much and as fast as he had done half a decade earlier, but that's ok.

The rockin' medley is followed by the gospel hymn "How Great Thou Art". It's presented with a lot of emotion and in vocally impressive style.

Now Elvis says goodbye and tells the audience, that he was on stage longer than the management of the hotel wants him to be. Then he sings "Can't Help Falling In Love", the band takes over with the "Closing Riff" and the curtain comes down. The show is over.