elton John: To russia with elton John and ray cooper

Big-time Elton fans -- you already have this tape. For anyone else, this is a great filmed documentary of an amazing live performer, at an artistic peak. By 1977, Elton John had broken every record in the music business there was to break, played almost every city and venue there was to play. It's easy to forget that Elton-mania swept the US though the early and mid seventies to an extent that only Elvis and The Beatles have approached or exceeded, before or since. He was at that time, simply stated, the world's best known and most commercially successful performer. The performances on this tape were captured in early 1979 at the end of a self-imposed "retirement" that began in 1977. This short tour of Russia and Eastern Europe so inspired Elton and percussionist Ray Cooper that it blossomed into a worldwide tour, culminating in US stops at relatively intimate venues in the fall of 1979. This tour is legendary among long time Elton fans, and this tape gives you a taste of why. It's simply the songs, his extraordinary musicianship, and an added element of drama provided by Ray Cooper -- unforgettable to those who were there. The backdrop of the Iron Curtain era USSR -- beautiful, officially unforgiving to outsiders, unofficially curious about the Western World -- is quite interesting; viewed today the film higlights the radical changes that have taken place, and how fragile they must be. You can't watch this without realizing that his is an enormous talent, and that many of his songs are already timeless classics. This is an "A&E" type docu (but not 'hosted') with heavy concert footage, filmed with 1979 technology. The soundtrack quality is okay but not sensational; that is my only quibble with what is otherwise a gem of a film: you witness a huge talent at peak performance, artistically sparking. enjoy! Antil0ck

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antil0ck (2008-02-18)

Sorry guys and gals, Forgot to tell you the specifics of this video.
I have encoded this video in MP4 format. The original video was copied from a VHS tape.
cheers!
antil0ck

SDguy (2009-11-29)

I went to see this at the cinema when it came out.
We never had video tapes or anything in those days but I was such a fan I went to see it at the cinema again, so I could scribble down the producer details etc., afterwards as much as anything.
I wrote to them, in long-hand - as we had no computers in those days - (never daring to deem myself worthy of writing to Elton, directly) and asked if it would be possible to purchase a copy of the film (in Super 8mm or whatever).
They didn't even bother to reply.
I never forgot that.
Despite having been a fan from the year dot, I never knowingly contributed a further penny to Elton, as a result.
Now, here I am, after all these years, obtaining it for free.
What goes around comes around.

Pricetx (2010-04-23)

I would just like to say that once I do get a hold of this I will seed the file for at least 10X the size of the file.
I am currently stuck at around 11% due to the fact that there are absolutely no seeders for the files and only a few peers. If anybody has the entire file it would be greatly appreciated if you seeded. :)