Live In Australia

The concert on 14th December 1986, before 11,000 people in the Sydney Entertainment Center, was the last in a series of 27 performances covering all of Australia. The tour had begun in Brisbane and had played to capacity audiences everywhere, including Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. The first half of the show features Elton and his 13 piece band and you are joining the concert, after the interval, just as the 88 piece Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is heard and seen for the first time on this, the last night of the tour. The whole show was also being televised live via satellite to an estimated audience of ten million. The instruments of the orchestra have been repositioned in the stereo spectrum, during the mixing process, in order to afford them maximum clarity. There are absolutely no overdubs on this album.