Elton John | Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Live 1977 Wembley
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- Опубліковано 29 жов 2021
- This may just be the best performance of FFAF/LLB Elton's ever done! In 1977 Elton took a break from touring, and in this exact show even announced his retirement! (He was back on tour less than two years later.) For this one off charity show in Wembley, Elton called on longtime band member Davey Johnstone and his newly formed band China, which included the legendary keyboardist and composer James Newton Howard and percussionist Ray Cooper, whom Elton would exclusively tour with throughout 1979. Gone is Elton's signature Steinway piano, as it was loaned out to the legendary Freddy Mercury during the year. Here, we see a Hamburg Steinway as a substitute, probably taken from the Steinway vault.
The original tape had a slight hissing noise, with some static in the background that was easily removed. The audio was EQ'd to better separate each part of the mix, allowing for a truly spectacular listening experience!
Who's here after Metallica performance ?
While I lay in icu fighting for my life, my friends played this song at my fiancé's and her 6yro son's funerals. We had a car crash that killed them both and left me with full rib cage fractures and punctured lungs. I should've died, but I lived in their spirits. I miss them everytime this song plays. This is my first time to see it in a live performance. Our accident was memorial day 2/28/89. I love you both Sue and Joey, my little family is resting in peace. 33 years later I still miss their love
❤️
Bless you and your loved ones memories. Music has healing power…may this and more continue to heal you all these years later!
May you one day reunite with them in glory
@@sibkiss2009 Thank you for your kind words
Que triste noticia amigo, no se que decirte.
Elton at the height of his powers performing a timeless masterpiece with his original band.
Without a doubt, one of Elton John's finest achievements. This song will never get old.
i hate when someone says that. Growing old is the nature of life...if you are lucky you GET to grow old...
@@WeatherWeasel66that's not what the expression means. They're referring to a song that remains fresh forever, not being ageist about an individual.
One of Elton's best songs.
YES, TRUE!........BUT there are SO MANY..!
Until he starts singing.
ABSOLUTELY
Elton at his very best, performing perhaps his greatest song. What more can you ask for!
Now that's one of the BEST ROCK SONGS EVER!
Hate to say it, yet, I'm proud...Until hearing this, tonight, on tube, I'd forgotten ( old), how wonderful Elton made my life
Чувак, как я тебе завидую
Glad to brighten your day up!
Elton John's music ended in 1975...everything afterwards is forgettable garbage.
@@stephenbrown7545 By and large I'd agree with you bar a handful of exceptions.
@@moodyblue1964 A handful?...your too kind.
It's astounding what Elton John has done time and time and time again over the years with Bernie Taupin's verses.
I was never a rabid Elton John fan, finding most of his music a bit too pop. But even as a teenager when I was most into hard rock and then punk, I knew that Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was a special album. The first four songs - "Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding", "Candle In the Wind", "Bennie and the Jets" and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - have to be the greatest opening set for any album ever. This performance is incredible.
Rock on!
I agree with what you said at the end: Definitely THE VERY BEST opening set of any album ever!
May I suggest you listen to the captain fantastic and the brown dirt cowboy album sometime
@@barbaracaroll I have that album...and still consider Goodbye Yellow Brick Road to be Elton's peak.
Glad you have it but to me yellow brick road is way more pop than captain fantastic You just mentioned some singles from it where as captain fantastic had 1 (I'm not sure if someone saved my life tonight was released as a single)
@@hermannmiskelly2759 and like you said you're not a fan you only casually like a couple songs from 1 album so enjoy
Halloween night 1974 St. Paul Civic Center, I was 16, Elton opened with this epic of his, unforgettable, never forget it! I’m 64 now and starting to forget things here and there…the rock’N’roll stays however.
Wish I was around back then to soak it all in
Elton John has always been great. This song is a masterpiece.
1970s Elton was so awesome, and Wembley's had such amazing concerts. Would have loved to seen this spectacle!
I had the honor of seeing him open a show with this in Hartford once. Fog and all. Chills from second one. Been to hundreds of shows and countless bands. Don't think I even saw a better showman.
I first heard this song while I was driving a shipmate to his home. It was almost over when we stopped at a store and I asked him to get the name of it. This song will never get old, and I like to think that Elton played it at all his concerts.
Elton John Live does not get any better than this video.....this guy is electric live.....makes your blood pressure rise if you are in attendance.....awesome stuff.....
Yep. And "lite rock favorites" like "I Guess That's Why they Call it the Blues" are straight up rock songs in the concerts.
Another example of why he was so dominate in the music world. Amazing performance.
Elton is as gifted a piano player as he is a vocalist & both those talents equal the fantastic Sir Elton John. ❤
I love watching these old performances and seeing how insane his energy is throughout his younger years.
Lots of cocaine to add to the energy
@@keithhayes844 mountains of snow
The most amazing talent out there. He is really something. Wow. Just blows me away ❤. I listen to him all the time. He brings me back to happier days ❤
His LAYLA... his STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN... his HOTEL CALIFORNIA... Johnstone's killing it on guitar and we watch tamborines shaking instead. Sheesh.
I felt the same
My thoughts exactly.
YUP ,Rod Stewart did the same thing to Jeff Beck the SUPER STARS did that back in the Day 🙂 they did not shine the Spot light on the Guiffidle player much . Except Ziggy Stardust interacted with his guitar player , nowadays the camera goes everywhere 🙂 but keeps going back to the FRONT PERSON right away
exactly that tambourine guy always gets way too much attention
Ray Cooper was THE Best tambourine player...Ever. Best Ever!
That being said, he was still just the tambourine guy.
Oh and he played that shaky thing too.
My first concert....1974 Chicago Stadium....4th row main...he had 2 major costume changes. Yellow feather headress..and a blue iridescent jumpsuit...just wild to see Elton in his full glory.
This song still takes me back to being 14... on my first concert date. To be born in the 60's feels lucky somehow now looking back. We were blessed to have all this new music as our companions while we navigated life ...and still to this day.
Saw him there in ‘76 when I was 13.
I seem to remember seeing Elton at the Chicago Amphitheater in the 70s.
Karen, you are right. We were ridiculously blessed to have his music for all of our lives. Funny thing is, you don't realize how good you have got it until much later in life.
Saw them do this on the '77 tour... one of my favorite concerts for sure.
Elton John and Billy Joel are treasures from both sides of the pond. Their musical contributions will last forever.
I saw them together in Pontiac mi. Back in early nineties…great!
I saw them together Wrigley Field 2009, just amazing.
Classic Elton and the band for sure. You know it is a respected song when Dream Theater has covered it in its entirety over the years.
After All these years, this is my 1ST Time hearing, seeing, or even Knowing this performance EXISTED!!
TRULY Amazing!!
A Lifetime, Legend, Keeper, Performance!!!!!!!!
Hard to believe the album (GBYBR) and the song were released almost 50 years ago (1973). I was in high school when it came out, and now I’m close to retirement. Where does the time go?
Nevertheless, a terrific album and an unforgettable song.
Wow I was 10. Timeless music
Honestly, I really don't know where to put this one on my list of top versions. I think I'll just leave it as a collective top 3 with Central Park 1980 and Kansas City 1982. The backing singers in the outro really elevate this one, and oh my good god, James Newton Howard going ballistic on that poor clavinet.
Also I think it wouldn't be too far an assumption to say that Elton's coke addiction was fueled in part by the producer at the video switcher. Everything about this has chaotic energy, and I am most definitely here for it.
This was an amazing performance! He performed the song in early 1984 as well - but we don't have much of that sadly. I can imagine its an even better performance. Central Park is good but the mix is horrid - I do like the one at Anaheim though.
wow - ray cooper had hair? Who'd have ever thought :) - wait a second - I had hair then too
This is the greatest concert opener in the history of..... ever.
I used to play this on piano. I took lessons so I read sheet music. This song was very difficult to learn. I haven't played in ages but learning this was my best accomplishment.
E.J. how can any say more
Was fortunate enough to see the goodbye yellow brick tour as a 13 year-old blew me away Thanksgiving 1974 Madison Square Garden
My all time favorite EJ work. And Ray Cooper is a master percussionist.
A remarkable piece of work created by passionate geniuses. As a musician, I'm in awe.
What a great sound, this was my first EJ concert aged 16, and about to see my last EJ concert, I cried back in 1977 when he said it was his last. No doubt I will shed a tear this year. Thank you Elton for 50 great years of watching you live.
Ray Cooper is a master
The 20th century Mozart. This is the new classical music from Rock & Roll's most talented musician.
First album I ever bought. Still great after 50 years
Great version, this one. But the live versions that top it (for me) are the ones on the Here and There live album and the 1973 Hammersmith Odeon performance, which can be now found on the 40th anniversary Goodbye Yellow Brick Road box set. That performance closely mirrors the album cut as it was performed live around the same time as the release of the album. For that matter, that entire concert was peak Elton and the original and best, band. Back in the mid-seventies, cuts from that Hammersmith concert made it's way to FM radio, I believe it was the King Biscuit Flower Hour that put it out on the airwaves....
GREAT COMMENT!!
They did indeed. However, his voice in the early 70s was nowhere compared to this, and the piano could barely be heard on the 70s recordings due to its mic array/EQ.
Agree, Here and There were phenomenal live recordings!
I thought Elton's voice on Here and There was raspy.
@@CaydenWilsonMusic Thanks, Cayden, for pointing that out. It was really a pain to mic piano and get any gain out back then.
Ray Cooper never changes... he's always creepy looking!!!
But that aside.... Old Elton music is AMAZING!!! Love hearing this so much!!
You think he may perhaps is a vampire?
E.J. (and Bernie) had so many hits but this one is iconic. Don’t know about nowadays but for many years he would open with this song (songs) Funeral for a friend & Love lies bleeding. Saw him in the 70’s in Hawaii with the Memphis Horns. Not 100% sure but I think Tower of Power was the original horn section on the Caribou album. Elton = Legend. 🌴😎🌈Aloha 🤙🏼
The day Len Bias of the Boston Celtics died, I was listening to WBCN that night and the DJ came on weeping and played this.
I wept with him.
It's one of his best works! Elton's said himself it's the kind of music he wants played at his funeral.
I wept that night too, it was such a tragedy.
Elton's finest hour by far.
This should have a billion likes.
The Elton John Band was one of the greatest
I remember seeing this right after the album came out. Actually it was my first real concert. Awesome show !😊😊😅😅😅😅😅
this song is stuck in my audio memory... but at least its a great song to keep hearing over and over in my mind...
At the time, Elton John was the brightest-shining star of hard rock music. This song was one of top three reasons rockers listened to FM radio. It's just spectacular. It almost seems impossible that they could play it this well in a live show.
(Holds up Bic lighter to ask for more)
I wouldn’t equate Elton with “ hard rock music” that’s more zeppelin or Sabbath etc
Hard Rock 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He's tremendous. And a beautiful song. All those musicians' contributions.
A masterpiece amongst many from Elton. 👏👍❤️
Thank you so much for posting this. The best performance of this song I've seen.
I love Elton John
Goodbye Yellow brick road is one of the best albums of all time
Unbelievable! So good!
I've watched this video over and over. Great performance!
A huge effort to keep a piano in tune while touring, but worth it. The sound of the grand piano makes this number. And a tip of the hat to Bernie Taupin for his lyrics.
A true genius....
Absolutely
Masterpiece!
That always was one of my favorite songs....
👍😎 Seeing him perform this live in 1975 made me a life long fan.
Perspective on this rock and and roll from
“Goodbye yellow brick road never matched or duplicated”. Timeless
Its a Masterpiece
Lots of knowledgeable Englishfolk on here! I am humbled!
I remember hearing this song as a teen when it came out and was blown away …..and 51 years laters I am still blown away by this song still get goose bumps every time I hear it
Amazing!
He used to play this to open his concert it is electrifying
The best performance would be with Nigel and Dee... But it's a great song with good musicians... One of the hardest times in Elton's life. He's stronger enough to overcome !!
I think Nigel and Dee were good in the studio - but Bob Birch/Davey Paton and Charlie Morgan can run circles around them live.
@@CaydenWilsonMusic Nigel and Dee are the best at all !
This was the warm up song in my Walkman (that's right, Walkman) at National Championships when I was in grade 9. Builds slow and gets rocking!
Great memories!!
One of my ABSOLUTE favorite songs
A Master At Work
Thanks!
Greatest live song ever………..
thank you so very much for posting this treasure !
Freaking Fantastic!
Talk about giving all you’ve got? Amazing Elton.
Who would have thought that a tombrine could make such a difference in a masterpiece
Dynamic performance!
Thanks so much for sharing. It was great.
A true Anthem !!! From one of the Greats !
I hadn't heard this in decades because I couldn't remember the name of it. I'm so glad this video popped up in my feed!! Thank you so much for posting.
He is playing this just as good ( if not better) 46 years later.
Great performance EJ !!!!
When Elton was a true genius & before he became boring. Amazing music!
A FRIEND OF MINE JUST PASSED YESTERDAY…WHEN I OPENED THIS SIGHT THIS WAS WHAT I SAW!!!! ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVS
So sorry
Love it! If I were mixing it, I would bring up the lead guitar just a touch. But what a great performance!!
Got to be kidding me
.Someone giving E.J. advice. Who are you A.Mosert
Fantastic captain 👏 👍
In memory of a friend. Tim may you be well, may you be loved, may you love, may your life be long and prosperous.
1977- nice punky version- has some umph to it.
Masterful!!! No other words needed. Peace.
Doesn’t get much better than that Amazing
Good work! MOf course Elton's, but yours too!! Delicius!
that my friends is what a true music prodigy is
Now, that's what I'm talking about that.
Cooper kicks ass😎
I see that this was posted a year or so ago, i love Funeral for a Friend/Love lies Bleeding, always have, when the video was done i happened to see your post and all of the love sent to you, i am so sorry for your loss, i too have lost 2 loved ones who were my world, in 2018 i lost my 19 year old son Jack in a freak accident, in which his younger brother Vinny found him and i tried to revive him to no avail 1 month before his 20th birthday, then just as i and my family were finally coming to grips with his passing, last summer 2023, 1 month after graduating from college and a month before his 22 birthday, my son Vinny, who found his brother dead back in 2018, passed away from a massive heart attack which after an autopsy, was found to be Covid related. Then most unbearable pain that i live with every day, not from 1, that any parent should have to endure, but the loss of 2 sons is unimaginable, Jacks favorite song was Levon, and Elton was always playing in our home, i don’t know why or what i believe in anymore but just know that i feel your pain and that i cry now not only for my loss but for you and your loss, but also for all of the other well wishers . Keep strong and be well!! GD 🙏
Good album. (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road).
Fantastic album!
@@chrislgarner4927 I stand corrected.
@@chrislgarner4927 actually two great albums! Listening to all 4 sides now on a road trip
One of my fave’s
God bless you 🙏 ❤️ sorry for your loss
Looks good with a beret!
Wow. Just WOW!
So sorry for your loss may they rest in peace