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Title: What, no Paul Buckmaster orchestration?
Review: Anyone tempted to pigeon hole Elton John as a lightweight pop tune-smith should listen to this live date. Recorded when he was still young, hungry and relatively unknown (the first US album had only been released a few months earlier), the piano style is more aggresive than on any of his more polished studio albums. With no thing but bass and drums behind him, he's a one-man wrecking crew on piano. At this early stage of his career, he didn't have a long original songlist, so we're treated to some playful covers of the Stones, Beatles and Elvis.This album was never intended as a release, but so many bootlegs were recorded off the original radio broadcast, MCA had little choice.
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