Elton John is about to launch Stay From The Rainbow Theatre, which collects reside variations of songs from his six-show 1977 residency on the iconic London venue.
In Could 1977, Elton took the stage with Ray Cooper for six now-famous reveals. These performances had been the primary Elton-and-Ray solely reveals and featured the primary reside debuts of tracks “Roy Rogers,” “Cage The Songbird,” “Idol,” and “I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford).”
Document Retailer Day 2025 marked the first-ever official vinyl launch of the concert events, that includes a collection of spotlight tracks from the present curated by Elton John.
This launch included “Sweet Painted Lady,” “Idol,” “Dan Dare,” and extra. On July 25, the album shall be obtainable digitally and on CD for the primary time alongside a large LP launch.
The 12 songs included come from eight of the 11 albums Elton had launched by 1977. Few of the songs had ever been carried out in live performance earlier than the six Rainbow Theatre gigs. Notably, solely one of many songs Elton performs right here had been a single within the UK, 1970’s “Border Song.”
The well-captured sound on these recordings comes from the intimate nature of the performances. Remarkably, the overall attendance for the six Rainbow reveals was lower than one evening at Madison Sq. Backyard.
The reveals had been a convincing success and got here to determine Elton John as one of many preeminent performers of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Mentioned John Hayward of Music Week in Could of 1977, “If ever there was any doubt that Elton John is a world class charismatic performer, it was dispelled during his solo concert run at London’s Rainbow last week.”
Added Harry Doherty from a Could 1977 version of Melody Maker, “Stripped of all the musical paraphernalia that usually marks his concerts, Elton John gave one of the warmest and most enthralling performances that London’s Rainbow theatre is ever likely to see.”
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