tracks

Your Song
I Need You To Turn To
Take Me To The Pilot
No Shoestrings On Louise
First Episode At Hienton
Sixty Years On
Border Song
The Greatest Discovery
The Cage
The King Must Die
Your Song (Demo Version)
I Need You To Turn To (Piano Demo)
Take Me To The Pilot (Piano Demo)
No Shoestrings On Louise (Piano Demo)
Sixty Years On (Piano Demo)
The Greatest Discovery (Piano Demo)
The Cage (Demo)
The King Must Die (Piano Demo)
Rock And Roll Madonna (Piano Demo)
Thank You Mama (Piano Demo)
All The Way Down To El Paso (Piano Demo)
I'm Going Home (Piano Demo)
Grey Seal (Piano Demo)
Rock And Roll Madonna (Incomplete Band Demo)
Bad Side Of The Moon
Grey Seal
Rock And Roll Madonna
Border Song (BBC Session)
Your Song (BBC Session)
Take Me To The Pilot (BBC Session)

notes

Deluxe edition.
Comes in a clear plastic o-card with glues hype sticker.
4 panel digipak.
28 page booklet. Disc one original 1970 release.
Disc two tracks 1-12 and 18-20 previously unreleased.
Disc two track 18 BBC Session with Hookfoot, recorded for BBC Radio 1 Dave Lee Travis Show, transmitted 12 April 1970; track 19 & 20 recorded for BBC Radio 1 Sounds Of The Seventies, transmitted 2 July 1970.

This release is similar to Elton John - Elton John but has a different Matrix/Runout format

credits

Arranged By – Paul Buckmaster
Bass – Alan Weighill, Dave Richmond, Les Hurdle
Cello – Paul Buckmaster
Conductor – Barbara Moore
Drums – Barry Morgan, Terry Cox
Engineer – Robin Geoffrey Cable
Guitar – Alan Parker, Caleb Quaye, Clive Hicks, Colin Green (2), Frank Clark, Roland Harker
Harp – Skaila Kanga
Harpsichord – Elton John
Organ – Brian Dee
Percussion – Dennis Lopez, Tex Navarra
Photography – Stowell Stanford
Piano – Elton John
Producer – Gus Dudgeon
Synthesizer – Diana Lewis
Vocals – Elton John, Kay Garner, Lesley Duncan, Madeline Bell, Roger Cook, Tony Burrows, Tony Hazzard
12-String Acoustic Guitar – Clive Hicks (tracks: 1-1)
Acoustic Bass – Frank Clark (tracks: 1-10)
Acoustic Guitar – Clive Hicks (tracks: 1-9), Frank Clark (tracks: 1-1)
Arranged By – Paul Buckmaster
Backing Vocals – Kay Garner (tracks: 1-3, 1-4, 1-7, 1-9), Lesley Duncan (tracks: 1-3, 1-4, 1-7, 1-9), Madeline Bell (tracks: 1-3, 1-4, 1-7, 1-9), Roger Cook (tracks: 1-3, 1-4, 1-7, 1-9), Tony Burrows (tracks: 1-3, 1-4, 1-7, 1-9), Tony Hazzard (tracks: 1-3, 1-4, 1-7, 1-9)
Bass Guitar – Alan Weighill, (tracks: 1-3, 1-4, 1-9), Dave Richmond (tracks: 1-1, 1-7, 1-8), Les Hurdle (tracks: 1-10)
Cello – Paul Buckmaster (tracks: 1-8)
Conductor – Barbara Moore
Drums – Barry Morgan (tracks: 1-1, 1-3, 1-4, 1-7, 1-9), Terry Cox (tracks: 1-8, 1-10)
Engineer – Robin Geoffrey Cable
Guitar – Caleb Quaye (tracks: 1-9), Clive Hicks (tracks: 1-8, 1-10), Colin Green (2) (tracks: 1-1, 1-7), Colin Green (2) (tracks: 1-7), Roland Harker (tracks: 1-2)
Guitar [Spanish] – Colin Green (2) (tracks: 1-6)
Harp – Skaila Kanga (tracks: 1-2, 1-8)
Harpsichord – Elton John (tracks: 1-2)
Lead Guitar – Caleb Quaye (tracks: 1-3, 1-4, 1-5)
Organ – Brian Dee (tracks: 1-6, 1-7)
Percussion – Dennis Lopez (tracks: 1-3, 1-4, 1-10), Tex Navarra (tracks: 1-9)
Photography By – Stowell Stanford
Piano, Vocals – Elton John
Producer – Gus Dudgeon
Rhythm Guitar – Alan Parker (tracks: 1-3), Clive Hicks (tracks: 1-4)
Synthesizer – Diana Lewis (tracks: 1-5, 1-9)

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Mercury Records Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Mercury Records Ltd.
Made By – EDC, Germany – 52124332
Made By – EDC, Germany
Recorded At – Trident Studios
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Mercury Records Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Mercury Records Ltd.
Manufactured By – Island Def Jam Music Group

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