Diamond Moments: Elton 60 Live at Madison Square Garden

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Mills Music
20 Denmark Street
(1965)

The site of Elton’s first job after leaving school, making £5 per week as an errand boy for Cyril Gee and agent Eric Hall. Denmark Street was the epicenter of music songwriters and publishers and is mentioned in the song Bitter Fingers, from Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975).

“I left school when I was 17 and I became a tea boy in a music publishing firm in Denmark Street – Mills Music,” Elton recalled to interviewer David Frost in 1975. “I worked there for a year and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Wrapping up parcels and everything. I loved it.”

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The Marquee Club
90 Wardour Street
(16 December 1965 – 5 June 1970)

London’s most prominent nightclub of the time. Elton played here as a member of Bluesology, sometimes backing Long John Baldry, as well as at the start of his own career. His first performance billed as Elton John, with his own band, took place here on 30 April 1968.

Live Musician Credits:

★  Elton John – Piano, Vocals
★  Davey Johnstone – Guitars
★  Bob Birch – Bass, Backing Vocals
★  Guy Babylon – Keyboards
★  Nigel Olsson – Drums
★  John Mahon – Percussion, Backing Vocals
★  Martin Tillman – Cello

Directed by Tim Royes, the music video for Something About The Way You Look Tonight features UK television’s “This Life” actors Luisa Bradshaw-White and Ramon Tikaram, along with supermodels Alek Wek, Kate Moss and Sophie Dahl, intercut amongst scenes of Elton performing the song on stage in an empty theater.