Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22315 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-09-24
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Box set, Live, PAL, Special Edition, Import
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 210 minutes

DVD Description
DISC ONE 60 LIVE AT MADISON AQUARE GARDEN 1. Sixty Years On 2. Madman Accross The Water 3. Where To Now St Peter? 4. Hercules 5. Ballad of a Well Known Gun 6. Take Me To The Pilot 7. High Flying Bird 8. Holiday Inn 9. Burn Down The Mission 10. Better Off Dead 11. Lebon 12. Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)

LIVE RARE & UNSEEN 1. Your Song (Elton at 50 Montage) 2. Border Song (Swiss TV, 1970) 3. Sixty Years On (BBC In Concert, 1970) 4. Tiny Dancer (BBC Sounds For Saturday, 1971) 5. Levon (BBC Sounds For Saturday, 1971) 6. Honky Cat (Royal Festival Hall, 1972) 7. Rocket Man (Royal Festival Hall, 1972) 8. Crocodile Rock (Royal Variety Show, 1972) 9. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (TOTP 1973) 10. Daniel (Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre, 1976) 11. Someone Saved My Life Tonight (Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre, 1976) 12. Candle In The Wind (Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre, 1976) 13. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (Edinburgh Playhouse 1976) 14. I'm Still Standing (Night & Day Concert, Wembley, 1984) 15. Bennie & The Jets (Night & Day Concert, Wembley 1984) 16. Song For Guy (Thank You Australia Concert, 1984) 17. This Train Don't Stop There Anymore (BBC TOTPSWO, 2001) 18. Tinderbox (BBC 'In Session' outtake from Saint Luke's, 2006) 19. The Bridge (Audio only - album version)

DISC TWO 60 LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 13. Daniel 14. Honky Cat 15. Rocket Man 16. I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues 17. The Bridge 18. Roy Rogers 19. MOna LIsas and Mad Hatters 20. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word 21. Bennie And The Jets 22. All The Girls Love Alice 23. Tiny Dancer 24. Something About The Way You Look Tonight 25. Philadelphia Freedom 26. Sad Songs (Say So Much) 27. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me 28. I'm Still Standing 29. The Bitch Is Back 30. Crocodile Rock 31. Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting 32. Funeral For A Friend/ Love Lies Bleeding 33. Your Song

ELTON'S NEW YORK STORIES 1. Mona Lisas & Mad Hatters (Royal Festival Hall, 1972) 2. Wouldn't have You Any Other Way (NYC) (BBC 'In Session' St Luke's 2006) 3. Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny) (Hammersmith Odeon, 1982) 4. Believe (Madison Square Garden, 1995) 5. We All Fall In Love Sometimes/Curtains (MAdison Square Garden, 2005)

BONUS CD 1. Sixty Years On 2. Ballad Of A Well Kown Gun 3. Where To Now St Peter 4. Holiday Inn 5. Madman Across The Water 6. Levon 7. Hercules 8. Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters 9. Roy Rogers 10. High Flying Bird 11. Better Off Dead 12. Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny) 13. Something About The Way You Look Tonight 14. The Bridge 15. Burn Down The Mission

Synopsis
Elton John celebrates his 60th birthday by playing his 60th sold out show at Madison Square Gardens. Features 33 songs including 'Rocket Man', 'Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me', 'I'm Still Standing', 'Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting', and 'Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding'. Also includes rare and unseen performances and a bonus 15-track CD.

Customer Reviews

Producer of the LIVE RARE & UNSEEN/NEW YORK STORIES segments of THE DVD
Hello all Amazon Readers,

I produced the 'Live Rare & Unseen + New York Stories' segments of Elton
60; 25 archival videotaped performances from Elton John, which I
located, compiled, researched, and remastered (all of the Bonus material) although no credit in the booklet nor DVD jacket.

I am a little biased. I think the DVD has some of the BEST quality audio I have ever heard on an archival Music DVD. We remastered three songs from Elton's 1972 'Royal Festival Hall - Honky Chateau Live' show which featured the global debut of 'Rocket Man', 'Honky Cat', and 'Mona Lisa's and Mad Hatters' all now remarried to a hitherto lost 16 track one inch master, which was mixed-down on the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio by a BAFTA nominated sound mixer, one George Foulgham. This new digitally remastered 'archival analogue audio' now accompanies this previously unseen footage. Four more songs emanate from the seldom seen 'Edinburgh Playhouse Solo Concert' from 1976, which was the first pan global satellite television transmission in colour! I located quarter inch radio stereo audio at Radio Clyde and this now accompanies the images/performances of 'Candle In The Wind', 'Daniel', 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight', and the hitherto unseen global performance debut of 'Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word'. Simon Heyworth co-producer of Mike Oldfield's seminal album 'Tubular Bells' remastered the audio of this show.

I also located a lost BBC TV Top Of The Pop's master of 'Goodbye Yellow
Brick Road' from 1973 which was remarried to the late Gus Dudgeon's 2000
AD multi track CD remaster. Unseen performaces of 'Believe', 'We All Fall
In Love Sometimes', and 'Border Song' (which comes from a 1970 Swiss TV
debut - and unseen since) were all audio remastered by David Woolley
who remastered all of Led Zep's recent DVD boxed set, as well as Macca's/Wings DVD output).

There are many other DVD highlights
(see amazon.co.uk ELTON 60 SPECIAL EDITION BOXED SET DVD
review by me for more detail) but, in my opinion, these are
the stand-out tracks.

Enjoy this great DVD and look out for the hidden Easter Egg of 'Saturday
Night's Alright For Fighting' from 'Thank You Australia, Sydney' (1984)
concert - the day of Elton's 37th birthday.

Henry Scott-Irvine
Producer of Elton 60: Live Rare & Unseen/New York Stories

Elton still standing sixty years on!!
I was prompted to write this review after reading the others and feeling the need to defend Elton's voice! In my opinion (humble as it is) Elton has been at the peak of his performing life the last ten years or so and although on this DVD his voice is gruffer than ever, that is no bad thing! As a piano player and singer he's never been better, his band are tighter and if anything the 70s performances, whilst excellent, simply emphasise this!! Its seeing (and hearing) the Elton of today that makes you realise why he's a superstar!! Pish posh to anyone who says otherwise! Yes he's changed, but he's always been amazing and still is! The concert is amazing and the whole package is a treasure trove for Elton fans! Go and buy now!!

The Old Footage Makes This Purchase Worthwhile
Elton John, in common with the Rolling Stones and the odd other musical veteran, continues to record and release material both in the form of new studio recordings and live DVDs. The more recent studio recordings in some ways are more palatable than that of the DVDs because there is also sprinkled amongst Elton's rich catalogue many recordings which represent Elton in his 70s prime - by contrast within his DVD output there is next to nothing. This situation is partly rectified here with a good dozen or more performances from his 70s peak, yet in many ways this exclusively brilliant footage only goes to reinforce the significant decline in Elton's more recent performances which makes up the bulk of this package.

Of course by significant decline i'm referring to Elton's diminished vocal prowess where his former smoothness and range have now descended into a heavy gruffness which may on occasion suit the odd song a little eg 'Bennie And The Jets' but taken in larger doses Elton's heavy straining begins to grate ever more. This type of singing isn't what made Elton John the star he is today.

However, this DVD is worth buying for the sprinkling of old footage (especially the 1970-76 performances) all of which demonstrates why Elton's name stands and will always stand amongst the all time greats. It's just sad and unfortunate it isn't too obvious these days.

For the next live DVD release how about Elton's Old Grey Whistle Test Performance at the Hammersmith Odeon from 1974? - it may prove worth getting excited about!