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Elton John with The Bread & Beer Band - Last Night (1969)

1,686 views · Published 5 October 2013 · 5:26 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: Ronnie Friend · 2013 · Music

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Reg Dwight (Elton John) was the keyboardist for The Bread and Beer Band in the late 1960s - at the same time he was attempting to launch his solo career as Elton John. The other members of the band were Caleb Quaye on guitar, Roger Pope on drums, Bernie Calvert (of the Hollies) on bass, and Lennox Jackson on percussion. They were produced by Tony King, who initiated the whole project. They recorded an album of instrumental covers, mostly in blues-rock style, at Abbey Road Studios, but this album was never released. Many bootleg copies have spread the globe. Caleb Quaye remembers, "We had no money, which is why we called ourselves the Bread & Beer Band."

Although this track is the last on the bootleg album, it was reportedly the first track the band recorded at those sessions at Abbey Road. This is a joyous and rockous jam session based on Little Walter's song "Last Night" from the 50s, that seems to reveal the fun and creativity that these incredible musicians brought together for a short time out of their separate careers and projects.

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