11-17-70

1. 01Take Me to the Pilot6:46
2. 02Honky Tonk Women4:09
3. 03Sixty Years On7:25
4. 04Can I Put You On6:13
5. 05Bad Side of the Moon4:24
6. 06Burn Down the Mission (including My Baby Left Me & Get Back)18:10

The recording was taken from a live radio broadcast on 17 November 1970, hence the album's title. The recording was originally popular among bootleggers which, according to Gus Dudgeon, eventually prompted the record label to release it as an album. It has been said that the release by an eastern bootlegger of the whole 60-minute aircast rather than the 40 minutes selected by Dick James Music significantly cut into the US sales of the live album. Another contributing factor to the original album's soft sales could have been the glut of Elton John product on the market at the time. John also had in release 2 full studio albums (Elton John and Tumbleweed Connection) and a movie soundtrack (Friends) when the live LP was issued. Nonetheless, it become the fourth of John's records to simultaneously land in the Top 100, making him the first act to do so since The Beatles. According to longtime NYC radio DJ Dave Herman (who can be heard at the beginning and end of the album), Elton John cut his hand at some point during the performance, and by the end of the show, the piano keys were covered with blood. John and his band performed 13 songs during the radio broadcast. The original album …