Elton John - 1980-09-13 - Central Park, NY (FM)

Elton John
1980-09-13
Central Park
New York, NY
FM Broadcast
320 kbps
Artwork Imcluded

01. Radio Introduction
02. Funeral For A Friend > Love Lies Bleeding
03. Tiny Dancer
04. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
05. All The Girls Love Alice
06. Rocket Man (missing)
07. Sartorial Eloquence
08. Philadelphia Freedom
09. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
10. Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
11. All I Want Is You (missing)
12. Harmony
13. White Lady White Powder
14. Little Jeannie
15. Bennie And The Jets
16. Imagine
17. Ego
18. Have Mercy On The Criminal (missing)
19. Someone Saved My Life Tonight
20. Your Song
21. Bite Your Lip (Get Up And Dance)
22. Good Golly Miss Molly (missing)

Elton John - 1980-09-13 - Central Park, NY (FM)

As mentioned in an earlier post, Elton John ended his Louder As A Concorde Tour with 7 shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden in August 1976. He would play only 9 concerts in 1977 and would even announce his retirement at a November 3 show that year. The stress of writing, recording and touring had clearly caught up with Elton. The next time he played New York City would be in October 1979, but it would be a marked contrast to his 1976 shows. Instead of the 20,000 seat MSG, the venue would be the 3000 seat Palladium. Rather than being backed by a full band, Elton was accompanied only by percussionist Ray Cooper. The shows were a return to an earlier, simpler time in his career. When Elton finally did decide to come back to New York with a full band, he did it in a fashion befitting Captain Fantastic. On September 13, 1980, 32 years ago today, he played the Great Lawn in Central Park in front of almost 500,000 people. The show was broadcast on WNEW-FM and taped for a DVD, so plenty of video is available on You-Tube. During his 22 song set, Elton donned several costumes, including dressing up as Donald Duck for the encores. Near the end of the set, he played John Lennon’s Imagine, little knowing at the time that his long time friend would be tragically murdered less than 3 months later. Download this FM broadcast, containing 17 of the songs Elton played, to hear his triumphant return to the biggest stage of all in New York!