Elton John celebrated his 60th birthday on March 25th this year by making his 60th appearance at Madison Square Garden in New York in front of 20,000 fans.Sir Elton's 60th show at the legendary venue featured special appearances by Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg and ended with an emotional rendition of Your Song. During the three-hour plus show he paid tribute to John Lennon, who famously joined him on stage at the Garden in November 1974 in what turned out to be former Beatle's last concert performance before his death. Sir Elton's long-time songwriting partner, Bernie Taupin, led the crowd in singing Happy Birthday to him, as a basketball shirt-style banner reading "Elton 60" was unveiled in his honour at the venue.This much in demand performance is now to be made available in three DVD formats, along with extra footage, on September 24th. Additionally, a 12 track live album will be available exclusively through iTunes from September 3rd. The two-disc package features all 33 songs on the 2007 Madison Square Garden set list, including classics such as "Your Song," "Crocodile Rock" and "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)" and rare live cuts including the appropriately named opener, "Sixty Years On," plus "Madman Across the Water," "Ballad of a Well-Known Gun" and "Roy Rogers."

The DVD set will also be loaded with special extra features, including a wealth of "Live, Rare and Unseen" concert tracks, such as a 1970 version of "Border Song" from Swiss television, BBC renditions of "Tiny Dancer" and "Levon" from 1971, and a mini-set of selected "New York Stories" performances culled from Elton's seemingly endless catalogue of live performances in NY and album tracks that mention the Big Apple.

To coincide with the release of his 60th birthday celebration DVD, Elton John will premier his awesome Caesar’s Palace Red Piano show for the first time ever outside of Las Vegas at London’s O2 Arena on the 5th September. Elton John has sold over 250 million records world wide.

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