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The recording featured Elton John on harmony vocals and piano. While in the studio, Elton bet Lennon that the song would top the charts, and such was Lennon's scepticism that Elton secured from him a promise to appear on stage at one of his performances, should the record indeed hit No. 1.
The Lennon-sung "I Saw Her Standing There" (credited to the Elton John Band featuring John Lennon) was originally released in 1975 on the B-side of Elton John's "Philadelphia Freedom" single. In 1981, all three live songs were issued on 28 November 1974, an Elton John EP. [65] In 1990, the three songs were made available on the Lennon box set.
John Lennon (pictured in 1972) performed the song with Elton John and his band in 1974. A live version was recorded at Madison Square Garden on 28 November 1974 by the Elton John Band with John Lennon, and released as the B-side to the former's "Philadelphia Freedom" single.
The movie also finds John revisiting his friendship with John Lennon and sharing how he got the former Beatle onstage at a fabled Madison Square Garden show in November 1974, which would turn out ...
John also had in release two full studio albums (Elton John and Tumbleweed Connection) and a movie soundtrack when the live LP was issued. Nonetheless, it became the fourth of John's records to simultaneously land in the top 100 of the Billboard 200, making him the first act to do so since The Beatles.
Elton John and John Lennon. Sam Emerson. John is joined onstage at Madison Square Garden by his surprise guest, John Lennon, in November 1974. The show would be Lennon's final live concert ...
Elton John admired many things about John Lennon, but one quality really inspired him early in their friendship: the fact that the former Beatle still loved making music, was still politically ...
Elton John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947, in Pinner, Middlesex (now part of the London Borough of Harrow), the eldest child of Stanley Dwight (1925–1991) and only child of Sheila Eileen (née Harris; 1925–2017).