05 - Grey Seal - Elton John - Live at The Hammersmith Odeon 24-12-1974

[@angelab5267]

I love this song!!

[@Coinbro]

I like his husky voice but miss his powerful young voice feel so lucky to see videos like this.

[@mediadude8]

Well said. Some of the songs translate better with his older more soulful voice, while some just don’t work as well. That aside, I think he’s become a better pianist and performer over time.

[@mairimillar8866]

Agree with you, Jason.

[@eliascalifa6822]

And what a great ass kicking band!

[@Aiila23]

Ray Cooper never stops.

[@anitafox3633]

I've always loved this song

[@tomplatt8528]

47 years ago STILL seems like Yesterday!

[@arjunarman5814]

My man on the congas is GOING OFF! Whoo man the speed is exhilarating!

[@JeffHfromoxford]

I grew up listening to these early Elton John albums (and I owned most of them). It's true that, for some reason, this song never climbed the charts like so many of his other songs did. It has a great funk sound, and he's performing with what I always think of as his classic studio-album rock-band. This is a beautiful song that was made even better when it was performed live.

[@lambchop3916]

i’ve listened to elton john my whole life (being a product of 70s parents). never really heard this song much, just heard it this past week, now it’s on repeat.

[@jdenino6022]

I grew up in the 1970s and I never heard or took notice of this song for whatever reason. It's great!!!!

[@jdenino6022]

Man I love this song.

[@Holoether]

always my fav on that album, though Funeral for a Friend always hauntingly came close. Grey seal is species-specific transformative lyrical drama. Thank you, Elton and Bernie, from the depths of my childhood soul struggling to survive and finding solace in music like you...like yours

[@tinarose3868]

Underrated, best song of Yellow Brick Road, listened and sang to this one loudly in my youth, on LP's!!! Best, next to the actual Goodbye Yellow Brick Road song.

[@bonniespringer8738]

I fucking love him

[@123westervelt]

One of his best songs

[@KurtI2525]

That is some wicked bongo playing.

[@loraa3873]

#1 Grey Seal #2 Harmony❤

[@scottalexander44]

Great version of a great song! Also, I love watching Ray Cooper on this.

[@THECLARENCES]

Fave Elton song!!! Love the chorus!!! xoxo The Clarences

[@tinarose3868]

Thank you for your music!! I love this song!! Grateful to have seen you twice in my life!

[@Jourreve]

Epic. I love when he loses his glasses haha!

[@delinellychan]

Jourreve 4:08 hehehe

[@jerryjoe88]

makes me YEARN for my youth

[@roohamm2456]

My Favorite of ALL...

[@roryobrien2318]

Fantastic!

[@bayoubengal1961]

My only gripe is that I would like to see the rest of the band too throughout the video

[@j.dragon651]

I saw him one week after seeing Zep at the same venue. His band made them sound like amatuers .

[@jdenino6022]

Wow

[@tinarose3868]

Actually one of my favorite EJ songs!!! Thank you for your music!!!

[@bei1016]

This is Fantastic. EJ still plays this song live. Thank you.

[@MarlinDarrah]

Amazing piano work at the end!

[@regmunday8354]

Sublime. As great as any Lennon/McCartney number.

[@alexiswoodal6171]

Still a bop in 2019

[@magorzatapiotrowska3943]

I Love grey seals my favourite animals

[@martinkraegel7965]

The master at work!

[@ashestostardust666]

Both the self titled and Goodbye yellow brick road versions of Grey Seal are Awesome Although I Prefer the Original recorded back in 1970

[@goldenthug9]

Classic Elton

[@DCarver803]

Elton @ his finest

[@tyfrey_]

Early elton is s teir

[@MotownGuitarJoe]

I love grey seal! It tastes like chicken 🤣🤣🤣

[@Swayzeo]

💙

[@chrishmmm2202]

Wicked tempo

[@trishjohn6050]

Coke is a wonderful thing

[@chrishmmm2202]

trish john at first

[@Tropicflamingo]

@@trishjohn6050 hes not using drugs. he used them starting at 1975 a year after this

[@stefeniedavidmusic]

This is one of my favourite EJ songs. Now there are some things I personally would change. First i would slow it down. But the ending is great so you could break into a fast part somewhere along near the end. It's a great song. Hey who am i to tell EJ how to play his own song. I would just play it different and I think it would sound better but love it anyway it 's done. EJ if you want to tell me to F off i understand.

[@viljar55]

There are some slower demo versions on the deluxe version of the Elton John album I think.

[@myajah2485]

Listen to the piano demo version

[@karrieann3657]

💖💖💖💖

[@JimmyJoeization]

:35 to :37. Counting it of. Young band.

[@bonniespringer8738]

Who is grey seal though?

[@alexnajera3483]

I guess hes refering to an eldery man. Grey refering to his hair and seal refering to a nickname. And he's talking about him being wise like the older generation

[@viljar55]

I think Bernie basically admitted to writing these lyrics while high af.

[@lemurianchick]

@@alexnajera3483 Bullshit. You just pulled that out of Uranus. It's weird how people need to know exactly who something is. What if it's looking at an actual seal and seeing the authenticity of an animal being here now and not having a facade? It could be something as mundane yet philosophical as that.

[@alexnajera3483]

@@lemurianchick well Bernie himself said there was no real meaning. To anyone it can mean anything in that case. Music can be perceived as any meaning. A song about a river can be about nature to one person, or an analogy about how life keeps on going for another. It’s all about how you put your mind to the lyrics. Music has no one true meaning

[@loraa3873]

​@@viljar55he wrote his best stuff that way😂

[@MrGARFIELD50]

0:12 WHAT.THE.FUCK

[@BossBass7o7]

Cocaine.

[@camilog17]

I dont think so

[@BossBass7o7]

@@camilog17 Sure thing bud, it was '74.

[@jdenino6022]

he was making those weird noises in a radio interview in 1970 on WNEW NYC. That's just his sense of humor.

[@bongofury5924]

It needs more AutoTune……..

[@jdenino6022]

there was no autotune in 1974.

[@mj2672]

I've always loved this song