Elton John - BBC Sessions, Volume 13: Earl's Court Arena, London, Britain, 5-13-1993

Here's yet another in a very long series of Elton John BBC albums. This is the only BBC concert I found from the 1990s, but it's an especially good one.

In the early 1990s, John got clean after many years of drug problems. This concert was to support his 1992 album "The One." It got mixed reviews, but that doesn't matter much, because he only played three songs from it here: "Simple Life," "The One," and "The Last Song." Instead, by this time he had oodles of hits, and most of the concert was spent playing those. He also played two unexpected cover versions: "The Show Must Go On" by Queen and "Jumpin' Jack Flash" by the Rolling Stones.

The sound quality is excellent. However, there was one problem: I felt the lead vocals weren't loud enough. So I used the X-Minus audio editing program to boost the vocals for every song here.

I suspect some of the banter between songs was removed by the BBC, because there isn't much. There also were two spots between songs when the cheering faded down to nothing and then started again with the next song. I patched in some applause from other songs to cover the faded areas. No music was lost, but those could have been more spots were banter was removed.

This album is two hours and 34 minutes long.

01 Pinball Wizard (Elton John)
02 The Bitch Is Back (Elton John)
03 Take Me to the Pilot (Elton John)
04 I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues (Elton John)
05 Philadelphia Freedom (Elton John)
06 Empty Garden (Elton John)
07 Simple Life (Elton John)
08 The One (Elton John)
09 I Don't Wanna Go On with You like That (Elton John)
10 talk (Elton John)
11 Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters - Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters, Part 2 (Elton John)
12 talk (Elton John)
13 Come Down in Time (Elton John)
14 Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word (Elton John)
15 talk (Elton John)
16 Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (Elton John)
17 The Last Song (Elton John)
18 Funeral for a Friend - Love Lies Bleeding (Elton John)
19 Rocket Man [I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time] (Elton John)
20 Bennie and the Jets (Elton John)
21 Sad Songs (Elton John)
22 talk (Elton John)
23 The Show Must Go On (Elton John)
24 Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting (Elton John)
25 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (Elton John)
26 Jumpin' Jack Flash (Elton John)
27 talk (Elton John)
28 Your Song (Elton John)
29 Sacrifice (Elton John)
30 Candle in the Wind (Elton John)

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The cover photo was taken in Sun City, South Africa, in 1993.