Elton John / Live from the Rainbow Theatre, with Ray Cooper

Despite being announced as a Record Store Day release for April this year, Elton John’s 1977 live show at London’s Rainbow Theatre (with Ray Cooper) is being given a full retail release, next month.

Normally in this situation the RSD releases would be coloured vinyl, or similar, and then perhaps a black vinyl would follow, but in this instance the RSD release was black vinyl and so is this full retail version. We have to presume they are identical!

However, this time around Live from the Rainbow Theatre, with Ray Cooper is being issued on CD as well, so that is definitely welcome. In fact, the CD offers a bonus track not on the vinyl: ‘Goodbye’.

These performances on this live album were the first of 233 Elton-and-Ray only shows that would follow and featured the live debut of ‘Roy Rogers’, ‘Cage The Songbird’, ‘Idol’ and ‘I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford)’.

Live from the Rainbow Theatre, with Ray Cooper is being released on 25 July 2025, via UMR.

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Tracklisting

Live from the Rainbow Theatre with Ray Cooper Elton John /

• CD
  • 1. The Greatest Discovery
    2. Border Song
    3. Cage The Songbird
    4. Where To Now St. Peter?
    5. Ticking
    6. Better Off Dead w/Ray Cooper
    7. Sweet Painted Lady
    8. Tonight w/Ray Cooper
    9. Idol w/Ray Cooper
    10. I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford) w/Ray Cooper
    11. Roy Rogers
    12. Dan Dare (Pilot Of The Future)
    13. Goodbye
• Vinyl LP

  • Side A

    1. The Greatest Discovery
    2. Border Song
    3. Cage The Songbird
    4. Where To Now St. Peter?
    5. Ticking
    6. Better Off Dead  w/Ray Cooper

    Side B

    1. Sweet Painted Lady
    2.  Tonight w/Ray Cooper
    3. Idol w/Ray Cooper
    4. I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford) w/Ray Cooper
    5. Roy Rogers
    6. Dan Dare (Pilot Of The Future)