Elton John
Louder Than Concorde (but not quite as pretty!)
Live at Madison Square Garden
15th August 1976
Audience Recording



Source: Audience Recording
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This is a pretty good audience recording, considering it was taped in 1976. Very few recordings have surfaced from this period of Elton John's career,
and with this band in particular. The Earl's Court DVD I uploaded recently was from May of this same year, and is the best recording I have
found, but is only partial. This is the entire show, and includes Kiki Dee as a special guest (Bernie Taupin and Billie Jean King as well).
She appears on the current single, at the time, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", and her own hit "I Got the Music in Me". This show also includes
the rarely played song "Empty Sky", as that album had just been released in the United States, six years after its initial release in England.
This may be as good as we get from this period, until they start to empty EJ's vaults. Play this loud and imagine you are in the cheap seats at
MSG!


The Band:
Elton John- Piano/Vocals
Davey Johnstone- Guitar/ Vocals
Ray Cooper- Percussion
Caleb Quaye- Guitars
James Newton Howard- Keyboards
Roger Pope- Drums
Backing Vocals:
Cindy Bullins (Guitar on "Love Song")
John Joyce
Ken Gold


The Songs:
CD One--
Grow Some Funk of Your Own
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Island Girl
Rocket Man
Hercules
Bennie and the Jets
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

CD Two--
Love Song
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Empty Sky
Someone Saved My Life Tonight
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
I Got the Music In Me
Philadelphia Freedom

CD Three-
We All Fall In Love Sometimes
Curtains
Tell Me When the Whistle Blows
Band Introductions
Saturday Night's Alright (for Fighting)
Your Song
Pinball Wizard


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