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May 29, 2011 · eccollector. 3.09K subscribers. Subscribed. 331. 141K views 12 years ago. RAY COOPER - The master of percussion - live at Zenith in Strasbourg 28th may 2011 supported by Elton John ...more.
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Feb 3, 2020 · 4.21K subscribers. Subscribed. 0. 86 views 4 years ago. ELTON JOHN RAY COOPER "ROCKET MAN" LIVE MOSCOW 1979 from the newly released BBC master tapes recordings, elton john with ray cooper...
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It was recorded during John's May 1979 tour of the Soviet Union, when he played a series of shows in Leningrad and Moscow accompanied by percussionist Ray Cooper. The live recordings were initially broadcast by BBC Radio 1 and were long available on bootleg albums.
Jan 24, 2020 · 40 years after Elton John became the first major Western pop star to venture behind the Iron Curtain and play the USSR, his seminal performance with percussionist extraordinaire, Ray Cooper, entitled ‘Live From Moscow’ is out now on 2LP vinyl, plus 2CD and digital formats.
- Another One For The Record Books
- One of Elton’s Favorite Concerts
- An Unforgettable Touchdown
No artist on Elton’s scale had managed to step behind the Iron Curtain, or to get Western culture through customs and into a Communist country so rigidly starved of it. Indeed, his then-current, 12th studio album, A Single Man, had become the first-ever Western pop album to be officially released in the USSR, on the state-owned Melodiya label. The ...
For those who are catching up with the superstar’s sprawling history, in the wake of the Rocketman movie and Me autobiography, the 95-minute Live From Moscowrecording is as fascinating as it will be to those who have followed his every move across half a century. This is a record, in every sense, of a landmark event, both culturally and musically, ...
One of Live In Moscow’s real revelations is an exhilaratingly spontaneous interpretation, on the Yamaha CP80, of “I Heard It Through The Grapevine,” which runs to nearly 12 minutes. “Funeral For A Friend” cleverly segues not into the usual “Love Lies Bleeding” but the Blue Movesgem “Tonight,” before a lively “Better Off Dead.” With the crowd now cl...
Songs. He Needs Me (Olive Acknowledges Popeye) Doug Dillard, Harry Nilsson, Klaus Voormann, Ray Cooper, The Mysterious Karsten, and Van Dyke Parks 3.4M plays Popeye - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album. I'm Popeye the Sailor Man (Boop! Boop!) Doug Dillard, Harry Nilsson, Klaus Voormann, Ray Cooper, The Mysterious Karsten, and Van Dyke ...
Dec 3, 2023 · New video now released on Youtube and Vimeo https://youtu.be/hFQ081DRbOo. Thanks to the wonderful Marry Waterson for making this video. The single is in 3 versions: Festival Mix, by Al Scott (as in video) and Folkpunk Mixes arranged, played and mixed by Henning Nugel.
