Elton John - One Night Only (The Greatest Hits Live at Madison Square Garden)

Rating:
Summary: It is a good concert and Ronan Keating is excellent
Review: A great venue, a great show, and a great entertainer. Tireless energy, editing and production is first class...gotta have this! Makes a fantastic weekend evening's entertainment with old friends. Definitely worth the money.

Rating:
Summary: SOUND QUALITY IS NOT GOOD
Review: This is how a concert should be recorded! Twenty seven hit songs are remixed with this fantastic DTS Surround Sound (one of the best live recordings yet - on par with the Bee Gees "One Night Only"). Opening with the full length version of "Funeral For A Friend", you can feel and hear the heavy bass and soaring synthesizers that start the show. It never lets up with hit after hit. Elton peppers his show with guest appearances (Billy Joel at his best), Mary J. Blige (sings perfectly, but seems nervous), Ronan Keating (wonderful and smacking of confidence), Bryan Adams (excellent), Anastacia (vibrant) and Kiki Dee (what a way to end the show - with a classic duet). One can see from the list that the emphasis is on the seventies hits and that's just fine. The light show is brilliantly spot-on and every member of the band seems like a star. The direction works extremely well, except (and this is a big complaint), there are too many cuts to audience members. It is distracting to see close ups of fans dancing and singing. I am sure the intent was to personalize the show, but it just becomes annoying. I don't watch other people when I go to a show. However, this is the only thing I can find less than perfect about Elton John's performance. It is the sound that matters and this is simply the best live recording to date. The bonus extra video of Robert Downing, Jr. singing "I Want Love" is brilliant.