Post by jules on Jun 5, 2015 17:52:24 GMT 1
During his Thanksgiving Day concert in 1974, Elton John invited surprise guest John Lennon to join him on stage at Madison Square Garden. Watch rare footage from the concert here:
John Lennon (1975): "Eiton used to be in the Dick James office when The Beatles sent in their latest demos, so he had a real emotional feeling for The Beatles. I went to see Elton at Boston and I was nervous just watching him. I was thinking 'Thank God it isn't me', as he was getting dressed to go on. I went through my stage fright at Boston so by the time I got to Madison Square I had a good time, and when I walked on they were all screaming and shouting. It was like Beatlemania. I was thinking 'What is this?' 'cos I hadn't heard it since The Beatles. I looked round and saw someone else playing the guitar. It brought the house down. It was deja vu for me, not like The Beatles screaming bit, but the place was really rocking. "We'd had a rehearsal but we weren't that together. By the time we got to 'I Saw Her Standing There' Eiton's piano was jumping off the floor. It was his idea to do that song. We had to do 'Whatever Gets You Thru The Night' because of a bet we had and naturally we did 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' because I did that with him at Caribou. That's me out of tune in the background, doing the reggae bit. I got it wrong just like I did the original on Pepper. Eiton wanted me to do 'Imagine', but I didn't want to come on like Dean Martin doing my classic hits. I wanted to have some fun and play some rock and roll and I didn't want to do more than three because it was Eiton's show after all. He suggested 'I Saw Her Standing There' and I thought 'great', because I never sang the original of that. Paul sang it and I did the harmony. When I came off stage I said to the waiting journalists "It was good fun, but I wouldn't like to do it for a living!"
John Lennon (1975): "Eiton used to be in the Dick James office when The Beatles sent in their latest demos, so he had a real emotional feeling for The Beatles. I went to see Elton at Boston and I was nervous just watching him. I was thinking 'Thank God it isn't me', as he was getting dressed to go on. I went through my stage fright at Boston so by the time I got to Madison Square I had a good time, and when I walked on they were all screaming and shouting. It was like Beatlemania. I was thinking 'What is this?' 'cos I hadn't heard it since The Beatles. I looked round and saw someone else playing the guitar. It brought the house down. It was deja vu for me, not like The Beatles screaming bit, but the place was really rocking. "We'd had a rehearsal but we weren't that together. By the time we got to 'I Saw Her Standing There' Eiton's piano was jumping off the floor. It was his idea to do that song. We had to do 'Whatever Gets You Thru The Night' because of a bet we had and naturally we did 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' because I did that with him at Caribou. That's me out of tune in the background, doing the reggae bit. I got it wrong just like I did the original on Pepper. Eiton wanted me to do 'Imagine', but I didn't want to come on like Dean Martin doing my classic hits. I wanted to have some fun and play some rock and roll and I didn't want to do more than three because it was Eiton's show after all. He suggested 'I Saw Her Standing There' and I thought 'great', because I never sang the original of that. Paul sang it and I did the harmony. When I came off stage I said to the waiting journalists "It was good fun, but I wouldn't like to do it for a living!"