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US STUDIO - Caribou Ranch, Colorado
UK RADIO - The Story Of Pop, BBC Radio One
Elton John is interviewed for the series.
US MAGAZINE - Creem
Elton John cover story: Elton John's Heavy Hundred
UK 45
DJM DJS 297 (UK: #11; 9 weeks)
Tour of Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
JAPAN CONCERT - Budokan Hall, Tokyo
JAPAN CONCERT - Budokan Hall, Tokyo
Partial set list.
JAPAN CONCERT - Kosei-nenkin Kaikan, Osaka
US 45
MCA 40198 (US: #1 (1 week); 18 weeks)
JAPAN CONCERT - Kosei-nenkin Kaikan, Osaka
JAPAN CONCERT - Kosei-nenkin Kaikan, Osaka
JAPAN CONCERT - Kyuden Kinen Taiikukan, Fukuoka
JAPAN CONCERT - Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima
JAPAN CONCERT - Kyoto Kaikan, Kyoto
JAPAN CONCERT - Osaka Festival Hall, Osaka
JAPAN CONCERT - Nagoya-shi Kaukaido, Nagoya
JAPAN CONCERT - Kosei-nenkin Kaikan, Tokyo
NEW ZEALAND CONCERT - Western Springs Stadium, Aukland
Roads are jammed for hours as 34,000 people travel to the show.
AUSTRALIA CONCERT - Randwick Racetrack, Sydney
Partial set list.
UK NEWSPAPER - The Daily Telegraph
A report that Elton John's manager John Reid is to serve a month in a New Zealand jail for assoulting a journalist and female writer on the night of his February 28 1974 Auckland New Zealand concert.
Originally scheduled as a European tour, those shows were cancelled because of fatigue. 3 shows played as headliner to benefit the Watford Football Club.
US STUDIO - Caribou Ranch, Colorado
ENGLAND STUDIO - Rampart Studios, London
Sessions for the movie Tommy based on Pete Townshend's rock opera.
ENGLAND PARTY - China Garden Restaurant, Soho, London
Elton is a guest at Eric Clapton's comeback party.
ENGLAND CONCERT - Vicarage Road, Watford
Benefit for the Watford Football Club. Elton John headlines with support by Nazareth and Rod Stewart.
UK 45
DJM DJS 302 (UK: #16; 8 weeks)
ENGLAND CONCERT - Invalid Children's Aid Society Benefit - Royal Festival Hall, London
This is the concert featured on the London side ("Here") of the Here And There album.
ENGLAND CONCERT - Empire Pool, Wembley
US 45
MCA 40259 (US: #2 (2 weeks); 15 weeks)
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US STUDIO - Caribou Ranch, Colorado
ENGLAND CONCERT - London
This song appeared on a 1991 CD called The Best Of King Biscuit - Volume 2.
US CONCERT - Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale NY - Beach Boys
Elton John and Paul Simon join the Beach Boys onstage for an encore.
US CONTRACT - MCA Records
MCA takes out full page ads in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times to announce the signing of Elton John to a long term recording contract. The June 22 issue of Billboard magazine quotes label president Mike Mailand as saying it is "the best deal anybody ever got".
The contract is rumoured to provide Elton with $8 million in advances over the life of the deal, plus new high percentages on his existing catalogue.
US LP - CARIBOU
MCA MCA-2116
- All songs by Elton John & Bernie Taupin
- Ray Cooper, Dee Murray, Davey Johnstone, Nigel Olsson
- Produced by Gus Dudgeon
- Recorded at Caribou Ranch, Colorado
- Engineer: Clive Franks
- Remixed at Trident Studios, London
- Engineer: Dave Hentschel; Assistant engineer: Peter Kelsey
- Thanks also to:
- Jim Guercio, Jeff Guercio, Frank Lee, Caribou, Colorado
- Richard Sanford Orshoff, Dave Devore, Sound City & Record Plant, Los Angeles
- Stephen Moffitt, Brother Studio, Santa Monica
- Mike Dunne, Advision, London
- Tower Of Power Horn Section:
- Lenny Pickett: tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet; Stephen Kupka: baritone sax; Emilio Castillo: tenor sax; Mic Gillette: trumpet, trombone; Greg Adams: trumpet.
- All Tower Of Power arrangements: Greg Adams
- Co-ordinated by Steve Brown
- Art Direction & Sleeve Design by David Larkham & Michael Ross
- Ed Caraeff Photography
Elton John (talking to Allan Jones in the June 29 issue of Melody Maker): "It was recorded under the most excruciating of circumstances. We had eight days to do fourteen numbers. We did the backing tracks in two and a half days. It drove us crazy because there was a huge Japanese tour, then Australia and New Zealand, that could not be put off. And it was the first time we had recorded in America, and we just couldn't get adjusted to the monitoring system which was very flat. I never thought we'd get an album out of it."
"I thought it would get slagged off, because it seemed the time for something of mine to get slagged. I think the British press might have decided it's time to knock me again, so I'm just sitting back and taking it."
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UK LP - CARIBOU
DJM DJLPH 439 (UK: #1; 18
weeks)
Same songs as US LP
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ATLANTIC OCEAN - S.S. France from England to New York City
Elton John travels with Julian Lennon and Tony King. Elton writes the Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy album on the trip.
US STUDIO - Caribou Ranch, Colorado
UK TV - Old Grey Whistle Test, BBC TV
UK 45
DJM DJS 322 (UK: #15; 7 weeks)
US MAGAZINE - Contemporary Music
Elton John cover.
US 45
MCA 40297 (US: #4; 14 weeks)
UK NEWSPAPER - Daily Express
In an interview with David Wigg, Elton says that he refuses to let his massive fortune get him down.
Elton: "A lot of stars shut themselves away and become recluses. But I really enjoy life at the top."
49 show North American tour. Starts in Dallas TX and ends in Philadelphia PA. Every show was a sellout and the band required a police escort every time they moved. The band included: Davey Johnstone, Nigel Olsson, Dee Murray, Ray Cooper and the Muscle Shoals Horns.
US CONCERT - Dallas TX
First night of the North American tour.
US CONCERT - Baton Rouge LA
US LP - WALLS AND BRIDGES - John
Lennon
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UK 45 - John Lennon
(UK #36)
US 45 - John Lennon
(US #1)
US CONCERT - The Forum, Los Angeles CA
["Elton In Disguise With
Glasses"]
The Muscle Shoals Horns join the band.
US CONCERT - Cow Palace, San Francisco CA
With Kiki Dee.
US CONCERT - Oakland Coliseum, Oakland CA
With Kiki Dee.
US CONCERT - Seattle Center Coliseum, Seattle WA
US CONCERT - Portland OR
Might have been October 15.
UK MAGAZINE - Melody Maker
Publishes a two page article on the US tour called: On Tour With Elton.
US CONCERT - Saint Paul Civic Center, Saint Paul MN
Thanks to Joe Yoch for the scan of the concert poster.
US LP - Totally Out Of Control - The
Hudson Brothers
MCA / Rocket 460
Album produced by Bernie Taupin. Recorded in Europe.
UK CASSETTE - unknown title
Elton John and Bernie Taupin composition. The only known release of this song. A single was released in October 1969, but was immediately withdrawn.
US LP - SMILER - Rod
Stewart
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US CONCERT - ACC at Notre Dame University, South Bend IN
Kiki Dee opened the show.
US LP - GREATEST HITS
MCA 2128
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UK LP - GREATEST HITS
DJM DJLPH 442 (UK:
#1; 84 weeks)
UK MAGAZINE - Melody Maker
Vancouver writer Ritchie Yorke describes this North American tour as "the most successful ever by a British artist."
US CONCERT - Civic Arena, Pittsburgh PA
Opening act was The Kiki Dee Band.
UK 45
DJM DJS 340 (UK: #10; 10 weeks)
US CONCERT - Boston Gardens, Boston MA
John Lennon attends Elton John's concert
US 45
MCA 40344 (US: #1 (2 weeks); 14 weeks)
US MAGAZINE - Rolling Stone
Cover photo plus article: Elton: The Four-Eyed Bitch Is Back
US REHEARSAL - Record Plant, New York City
Elton John, John Lennon and the band rehearse in anticipation of playing together on the 28th.
US CONCERT - Madison Square Garden, New York City NY
Set list order may not be 100%.
A fabulous night in rock history - John Lennon made a guest appearance during the show, his first stage performance in years. When Lennon is murdered in December of 1980, this becomes his last ever concert appearance.
Lennon is reported as being terrified before going on and the thunderous reception almost brought him and Elton John to tears.
Elton and John had made an agreement, after they had appeared on each other's singles earlier in 1974, that if Lennon's single Whatever Gets You Through The Night made #1, then Lennon would appear onstage with Elton. John Lennon appeared on Elton's cover of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.
Elton John: "We did I Saw Her Standing There which was great and I was so glad we did that. Originally I said, 'Let's do two numbers, but you'll have to do another. Why not do Imagine?' He said, 'Oh no, boring. I've done it before. Let's do a rock and roll song.' So I thought of I Saw Her Standing There which was the first track on the first Beatles album. And he never sang it. It was McCartney who sang it. John was so knocked out because he'd never actually sung the lead before."
"For us it was very emotional and one rock paper crucified us. But it was just an emotional night and nobody could believe it. I knew John would be petrified about doing it, but he really enjoyed it. I was more scared than he was, hoping things would go right for him. But the reaction when he walked on stage..."
"I wish he could have done more numbers because the reaction was so great. But he wanted to go upstairs and be sick. He told me he used to throw up before he went on stage. He came to Boston to see us before we did New York, and I've never seen anyone so nervous in my life. He was so worried for us."
The New York songs on the Here And There album (and later CD remastered release) were from this show.
US CONCERT - Madison Square Garden, New York City NY
US CONCERT - Philadelphia PA
Last night of the North American tour.
US LP - GOODNIGHT VIENNA - Ringo Starr
A series of Christmas shows at the Hammersmith Odeon, London England.
UK NEWSPAPER - Melody Maker
Elton (in an interview by Chris Welch): "I only play for pleasure when I write. I never sit down and play, but if I do I always try and sing other people's songs. I like doing sessions. I used to do a lot of sessions at one time, and I miss doing them. People won't ring me any more because I'm too busy. I did Rod's and Lennon's things. They were not really sessions, just friends asking me down. And I did a Neil Sedaka and Ringo Starr."
UK NEWSPAPER - The Daily Telegraph
Reporting on the Christmas concerts, they write that no amount of spangled gimmickry, clowning or noise can hide his great talent as a musician and a performer of good songs, and that his precision is unfailing and never becomes mechanical.
ENGLAND CONCERT - Hammersmith Odeon, London
"Lucy In The Sky";
"Rocket Man Volume 1"
Broadcast live by BBC TV's Old Grey Whistle Test and Radio One. Rod Stewart and Gary Glitter join Elton John on stage for the final encore. Skyline Pigeon and I Need You To Turn To are performed solo.
The band is:
Davey Johnstone - guitar
Dee Murray - bass guitar
Nigel Olsson - drums
Ray Cooper - percussion/organ
and a brass section
UK 8-TRACK & CASSETTE - LADY SAMANTHA
DJM
B-side compilation. Issued in vinyl and CD in March 1980.
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