Live in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Infobox Album |
Name = Live in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Type = Live album
Artist = Elton John


Released = June 1987
Recorded = December 14, 1986
Genre = Rock and roll
Length = 67:38
Label = MCA (US/Canada) Rocket Records
Producer = Gus Dudgeon
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:xne997b7krkt link] |
Last album = "Leather Jackets" (1986)
This album = "Live in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra" (1987)
Next album = "Elton John's Greatest Hits Vol. 3" (1987)

"Live in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra" is a live album by Elton John and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra recorded at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on December 14, 1986. The concert was the last of a series of concerts done throughout the last two months of 1986. The concerts consisted of two sets: the first featuring Elton and his fourteen-piece band and Elton's flamboyant stage dress, featuring Mohawk and Tina Turner wigs, and the second featuring Elton, the band, and the eighty-eight piece Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. The album features most of the songs recorded in the second half of the show, excluding "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting", "Carla/Etude", "Cold as Christmas (In the Middle of the Year)" and "Slow Rivers". This was the last album to feature Elton's old vocal register prior to his throat surgery which occurred January 5 1987.

A home video release commemorated the concert and was originally released on both laserdisc and VHS, and reissued on DVD.

All songs by John/Taupin.

Track listing

ide one

# "Sixty Years On" – 5:41
# "I Need You to Turn To" – 3:14
# "The Greatest Discovery" – 4:09
# "Tonight" – 7:44

ide two

# "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" – 3:58
# "The King Must Die" – 5:21
# "Take Me to the Pilot" – 4:22
# "Tiny Dancer" – 6:36

ide three

# "Have Mercy on the Criminal" – 5:50
# "Madman Across the Water" – 6:38
# "Candle in the Wind" – 4:10

ide four

# "Burn Down the Mission" – 5:49
# "Your Song" – 4:04
# "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" – 6:03

Home Video Release

# "Funeral for a Friend/One Horse Town"
# "Rocket Man"
# "The Bitch is Back"
# "Daniel"
# "Medley: Song for You/Blue Eyes/I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues"
# "Bennie and the Jets"
# "Sad Songs (Say So Much)"
# "I'm Still Standing"
# "Sixty Years On"
# "I Need You to Turn To"
# "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"
# "Take Me to the Pilot"
# "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
# "Candle in the Wind"
# "Burn Down the Mission"
# "Your Song"
# "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting"

Credits

*Produced by Gus Dudgeon
*Mastered by Greg Fulginiti US

References

http://www.vex.net/~paulmac/elton/ej1987.html#1987