Elton John @ Lucca Summer Festival 2011


live and direct FM radio broadcast by "Radio2 Live", Radio2 RAI [second channel of italian national radio] from Piazza Napoleone, Lucca (Italy) on thursday 14 July 2011, 21:28 hours

Elton John: vocals and piano. Davey Johnstone: guitars. Kim Bullard: keyboards. Bob Birch: bass and vocals. Nigel Ollson: drums. John Mahon: percussion and vocals. Stjepan Hauser & Luka Sulic [2Cellos]: cello. Tata Vega, Rose Stone, Jean Witherspoon, Lisa Stone: back vocals.

tracklist is identical to every show of this current tour, and indeed not one song short of a classic... the last part of the show (kinda six songs more) was NOT broadcast.
WARNING: in italian radio customes the DJ speaks a lot in-between songs. And I mean a lot.. His/Her purpose is to introduce songs with bits of bio and translate what the artists say. It may gets VERY annoying, and trust me it does, thus we might consider this recording ONLY FOR COMPLETISTS. But the songs, the actual music, are (usually) not spoken over in the middle of them. It has to be noted that usually italian djs are adviced to talk that much by the same record companies to prevent bootlegging.


tracklist > running time 108'41"
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01 intro > Funeral For a Friend
02 Love Lies Bleeding
03 Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
04 Levon
05 Madman Across the Water
06 Tiny Dancer
07 Philadelphia Freedom
08 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
09 Sacrifice
10 Rocket Man
11 I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
12 Hey Ahab
13 one To Shiloh
14 Monkey Suit
15 band's introduction
16 Sad Songs (Say So Much)
17 Take Me To The Pilot
18 Sorry Seems to Be The Hardest Word
19 radio outro


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