To sell an estimated thirty million records worldwide, to play in front of 300,000 people on Copacabana Beach in Brazil and to win numerous Grammys, you would think after all that Lenny Kravitz may be a bit detached or aloof.

Stepping out of his tour bus in front of a line filled with people who were only there to see him would disprove those claims. Moving slowly to allow pictures to be taken and offering greetings to several people was the introduction to an evening that bordered on the surreal but still resounded with triumph.

Kravitz’s cool is well known; you only have to look at the press pictures of the leather jacket and the glasses to realise this. When he’s on stage with a guitar in his hand and playing an ear splitting guitar solo it becomes startlingly apparent that no matter what you do, you will never be as cool.

This show was rescheduled after Kravitz was laid low with Bronchitis in February, and to say he gave something back would be an understatement. Beginning at 8:30pm and departing the stage two hours later, he and his backing band bounced through hits spanning his entire career including classics such as Fly Away and Mr Cab Driver. 

Before, during and after these songs came more solos than you could shake a drum stick at. You name it, there was a solo - guitar, drums, saxophone, trumpet, bass and vocal - and while this is stunning to watch and the gifts which Kravitz and his lead guitarist Craig Ross possess are indeed staggering, it can be a little disengaging after the fifth or sixth time.

Despite this, Kravitz had the crowd in the palm of his hand. During a break in play to fix the keyboard, a cry of “My girlfriend wants to marry you Lenny!” came from the crowd. The rocker replied that they didn’t know each other, and it would never work. When the keyboard broke a second time he quipped: “By the time this keyboard is fixed we might have time to work this marriage out”, before breaking into an acappella version of Will You Marry Me? from his new album, It Is Time For A Love Revolution.

The new album also became the basis of a rant about love, which Kravitz himself conceded sounded like “Hippy, Dippy Shit”. This concluded with a dozen or more members of the audience on stage while the last strains of Let Love Rule played out - An occurrence that was more than a bit surreal when you consider how cool and calm Mr Kravitz usually appears.