Bear with me on this one...

If you listen to the extended dub mix of Dancing with the Big Boys (as I'm sure we all do on a regular basis), you'll hear a fairly wild piano solo towards the end of the track:

https://youtu.be/GADAD4vosdM

The same performance actually appears on the regular album version, but only a brief snatch - most of it's mixed out.

It is obviously very different from anything else played at any point in the Tonight sessions, which gives rise to the question of who's actually playing it.

The only credited keyboardist on the album is Derek Bramble, whose other contributions (to say the least) are very different from this. The one person it does sound like, to my mind at least, is a certain Mr Garson.

What does anyone think? Is it possible that Mike dropped in on the session to add this overdub, but then for whatever reason wasn't credited?

If not, who could it be?

For what it's worth I actually quite like Big Boys (as it were). Beneath the production and the overcrowded arrangement, there's a decent track trying to get out - actually more noticeable, imo, on the various 12" versions.

You are right, there's a definite similarity.

But to me it sounds like someone with significantly less talent than Garson having a crack at sounding like Garson.
Interestingly, the few seconds from around 6:35 sound quite a bit like Heart's Filthy Lesson.

I see Derek Bramble is on Twitter, and MG seems pretty active online. Any chance someone who's better than me at social media could try asking one of them?