Elton John + 50-piece orchestra = the moment a piano man became a legend.
Elton John and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra perform many of Elton's best on February 5, 1972. Tracks performed are Your Song, Take Me To The Pilot, Sixty Years On, Tiny Dancer, The King Must Die, Indian Sunset , Border Song , Madman Across The Water, Burn Down The Mission, Goodbye
Sound
Philharmonic arrangements transforming rock songs into something operatic.
Production
Intimate staging that somehow contains cosmic ambition.
Director
David Bell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This concert helped cement the 'Elton John persona' — the glasses, the costumes, the theatricality — that would define 1970s rock excess.
The Royal Philharmonic had never backed a rock act before; conductor Barry Wordsworth learned Elton's songs from vinyl the week prior.
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