Elton John - 2009-06-10 - Glasgow, Scotland (SBD)

Elton John 
2009-06-10
Scottish Exhibition & Conference Center
Glasgow, Scotland
Soundboard Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included

CD 1:
01. Funeral For A Friend > Love Lies Bleeding
02. Saturday Night Alright (For Fighting)
03. Burn Down The Mission
04. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
05. I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
06. Daniel
07. Honky Cat
08. I Want Love
09. Rocket Man
10. Sad Songs (Say So Much)
11. Take Me To The Pilot

CD 2:
01. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
02. Tiny Dancer
03. Sacrifice
04. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
05. All The Girls Love Alice
06. Candle In The Wind
07. Skyline Pigeon
08. Are You Ready For Love
09. Bennie And The Jets
10. The Bitch Is Back
11. Crocodile Rock
12. I'm Still Standing
13. Your Song

Elton John  - 2009-06-10 - Glasgow, Scotland (SBD)

In 1967, Elton John was still a long way from becoming the musician who at one point in the 1970s was perhaps the best known and best selling rock artist in the world.  Heck, he wasn't even Elton John yet, still going by his birth name of Reginald Dwight as part of a band called Bluesology.  Yet, as we saw in our Steppenwolf and Chicago posts earlier this month, 1967 was a magical year even for then unknowns. That year, "Reggie" as his band mates called him,  answered an ad in the British magazine New Musical Express, placed by Ray Williams, then the A&R manager for Liberty Records At their first meeting, Williams gave Dwight a stack of lyrics written by Bernie Taupin, who had answered the same ad. Dwight wrote music for the lyrics, and then mailed it to Taupin and, once again, the rest as they say is history.  The John/Taupin combination would produce 6 consecutive #1 albums in the 1970s, filled with classic songs such as Rocket Man, Your Song, Daniel, Levon, Tiny Dancer, Bennie and Te Jets, and so on and so on. This soundbaord recording captures Sir Elton, 42 years after meeting Taupin, on June 10, 2009 oin Glascow, 13 years ago today.