Elton John - Burn Down the Mission (Live in New York 1970) with Lyrics!

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17th of November 1970
Recorded at A&R Recording Studios, New York, for a live radio broadcast on WABC-FM, and then released on the album 17-11-70 (11-17-70 in the US). I have edited out a few minutes in the middle of the jam session at the end, to make this track fit on YouTube. If you want to hear the whole awesome track, please buy the album!
Nigel Olsson on drums and backing vocals, and Dee Murray on bass and backing vocals. This was the entire Elton John Band on Elton's first world tours in 1970 and 71.
"Burn Down the Mission" comes from the album "Tumbleweed Connection," released just a month before this concert. In those early shows the band always added a few classic rock'n roll numbers to the closing jam. Here they played Elvis Presley's "My Baby Left Me" and The Beatles' "Get Back."
The announcer at the concert, whom you can hear at the end, was New York radio DJ Dave Herman, who later commented that by the end of the show Elton's fingers were bleeding on the piano keys.
Burn Down the Mission
Words & Music by Elton John & Bernie Taupin
©1970 Dick James Music Limited