Elton John
Live in Sydney, Australia
with The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
December 14, 1986
Attempted video remaster/restoration in HD using AI video enhancing software on a live television broadcast source.
This song is one of Elton's lesser known/heard numbers among casual fans. It comes from the 1983 album "Too Low For Zero", and was released as a single in parts of Europe. The song was not included in the tour promoting the album however, and was only ever performed twice on television prior to 1986, although since only one of those two performances featured live singing you could technically say it was only done once--which was on The Two Ronnies Christmas Special on December 25, 1983:
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Interestingly, despite not really having any orchestral parts in the studio version, it was one of the songs featured during his historic run of shows with the MSO in 1986 during his "Tour De Force" of Australia. Unfortunately the song has been cut from every official release of the concert, both video and audio versions--so you have to scour the internet to find someone who might hopefully have a version of the full broadcast to send your way.
I have a couple versions of the raw broadcast, so I took the video with the better elements in it's original state, and ran it through AI video enhancing software to see if it could clean up nicely at all. I think it looks pretty good overall! Hope you all enjoy.