...4 Jahren spielte Elton im Konstanzer Bodenseestadion ein hammer Konzert:
Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding The Bitch Is Back Madman Across The Water Tiny Dancer Levon Believe Take Me To The Pilot Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Daniel Rocket Man Honky Cat Sacrifice Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me I Guess That´s Why They Call It The Blues Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word Candle In The Wind Bennie And The Jets Philadelphia Freedom I´m Still Standing Crocodile Rock Saturday Night´s Alright For Fighting Pinball Wizard Your Song
Elton John - How wonderful life is while you're in the world
...37 Jahren: ELTON JOHN SELLS OUT TWO DODGER STADIUM SHOWS by: Doug Fox - Friday, October 26, 2012
On Oct. 25 and 26, 1975, Elton John performed two sold-out shows at Dodger stadium in Los Angeles. Imagine for a moment what it would be like if one of those was the first rock concert you ever went to. Now, meet our new friendDoug Fox, who was indeed just that lucky, and is here to tell us all about it: Hit up any rock fan and you’ll find that almost all of them still proudly wear their first concert like a badge of honor. As the veteran of hundreds of shows over the years, I’m certainly no exception — just fortunate enough to have initially plugged into a lifelong love of live music by attending one of rock’s most historical concerts. It was 37 years ago today that Elton John performed the second of his back-to-back, career-defining sellout concerts at Dodger Stadium. Unless one actually lived through that time period, it’s almost impossible to imagine just how big a phenomenon John was in 1975. He was littering the rock landscape with hit after hit en route to delivering a couple No. 1 albums per year. His concerts, complete with outrageous costumes and stage antics, were already the stuff of legend. Similar to the scene in Cameron Crowe’s rock biopic ‘Almost Famous’ where Frances McDormand’s character nervously drops her young, sheltered son off at his first concert, so I recall my mother, with much trepidation, depositing our group of three off in front of Dodger Stadium — but not before reconfirming that we had enough change in our pockets to call her from a pay phone for a ride home following the show. After opening sets by Emmylou Harris and the James Gang, which featured soon-to-be Eagle Joe Walsh, Elton took the stage in grand fashion. He opened the show with a soulful solo rendition of ‘Your Song,’ with the opening piano notes preceding the rise of the curtain, and his piano starting at the back left of the stage and slowly moving to the front as the song progressed. After another solo number, ‘I Need You to Turn To,’ he was joined onstage by his band, which had recently been revamped from his classic lineup. He played a 10-song opening set that featured several album tracks before returning in a sequined Dodger uniform for a hit-laden second set that also heavily highlighted his No. 1 album from five months earlier, ‘Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.’ There were special appearances by tennis star Billie Jean King (she sang backing vocals for ‘Philadelphia Freedom’) and John’s partner in rhyme, lyricist Bernie Taupin, and ‘Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me’ seemed perfectly timed with the sunset outside the stadium on that typically beautiful Southern California Sunday. John ended up playing 31 songs in a three-hour-plus performance that spoiled me for years, naively assuming, as I did, that every artist must play for a similar length of time on such a grand scale. Obviously, that wide-eyed 15-year-old still had a lot to learn in the way of concerts. In the subsequent 37 years, I’ve had the opportunity to interview a couple members of Elton’s core band and see him in concert seven additional times — but somehow none quite compare with that afternoon at Dodger Stadium. Maybe it’s a first-time thing.
Elton John Dodger Stadium Oct. 26, 1975 Setlist:
First set ‘Your Song’ ‘I Need You to Turn To’ ‘Border Song’ ‘Take Me to the Pilot’ ‘Dan Dare’ ‘Country Comfort’ ‘Levon’ ‘Rocket Man’ ‘Hercules’ ‘Empty Sky’ Second set ‘Funeral For a Friend’ ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ ‘Bennie and the Jets’ ‘Harmony’ ‘Dixie Lily’ ‘Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy’ ‘Bitter Fingers’ ‘Someone Saved My Life Tonight’ ‘The Bitch is Back’ ‘Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me’ ‘Meal Ticket’ ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’ ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ ‘Island Girl’ ‘Philadelphia Freedom’ ‘We All Fall in Love Sometimes’ ‘Curtains’ Encore ‘Tell Me When the Whistle Blows’ ‘Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting’ ‘Pinball Wizard’
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..45 Jahren ist Elton bei Bluesology ausgestiegen: 1968: Reginald Dwight quit the band Bluesology but took some of it with him as he adopted part of the names of the band members, Elton Dean and Long John Baldry, to form his new name: Elton John… Gute Entscheidung, Elton!! :D
... 40 Jahren hat Elton im Château d'Hérouville mit seiner Band Funeral for a friend, Love lies bleeding, Bennie and the Jets und Candle in the wind aufgenommen
Elton John - How wonderful life is while you're in the world
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Heute vor 20 Jahren fand das Konzert "Charity in Court" statt
Disc One: 01 - Pinball Wizard 02 - The Bitch is Back 03 - Take Me to the Pilot 04 - I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues 05 - Philadelphia Freedom 06 - Empty Garden 07 - Simple Life 08 - The One 09 - I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That 10 - Mona Lisa's and Mad Hatters Parts 1 & 2 11 - Come Down in Time 12 - Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word 13 - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy 14 - The Last Song
Disc Two: 01 - Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding 02 - Rocket Man 03 - Bennie and the Jets 04 - Sad Songs (Say So Much) 05 - The Show Must Go On (Queen cover) 06 - Saturday Night's Alright (for Fighting) 07 - Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me 08 - Jumping Jack Flash (Stones cover) 09 - Your Song 10 - Sacrifice 11 - Candle in the Wind
Elton John - How wonderful life is while you're in the world
... 30 Jahren kletterte der FC Watford (als Aufsteiger) am letzten Spieltag der englischen Liga (die seit 1977 mit drei verschiedenen Teams ununterbrochen Europas Champions gestellt hatte) durch einen 2:1 Sieg über den bereits feststehenden Meister aus Liverpool sensationell auf Platz 2 der Tabelle.
... 10 Jahren wurde einer der überflüssigsten Auftritte im deutschen Fernsehen ausgestrahlt, nämlich Eltons Playback-Version von "Rocket Man 03" im Rahmen eines Werbespots für einen bayerischen Automobilkonzern.
...23 Jahren hat sich Elton auf Entzug begeben http://www.ampya.com/news/Aktuell/Elton-...k-ein-SN100714/ Ob das Datum genauso passt, könnte aufgrund der anderen eher zweifelhaften Informationen auch fraglich sein. Ungefähr müsste es zumindest hinkommen:)
Leider wird mal wieder verhindert, dass man kommentiert auf der Seite. Deshalb das, was ich gerne dort geschrieben hätte, hier: Und ist es nicht bemerkenswert... ... dass selbsternannte Wächter guten Musikgeschmacks es auch vierzig Jahre später nicht lassen können, sich an dieser mittlerweile mächtigen Eiche innerhalb der Musiklandschaft zu schubbern? Glücklicherweise sagt der Artikel mehr über das verzweifelte "Wir sind wichtig"-Getue des Rolling Stone aus als über dieses großartige und abwechslungsreiche Werk, das vierzig Jahre später immer noch frisch klingt.
Und DAS hier habe ich ihnen bei Facebook reingeschrieben: Hat Elton John Herrn Döring irgendwann mal den Freund ausgespannt, oder warum ist das Ganze so ein wichtigtuerisches Um-sich-Kratzen? Traurig, das Album hat den Test der Zeit eigentlich sehr gut überstanden (Und nein, ich finde Candle In The Wind unerträglich, in die Richtung muss nicht gezickt werden).
------------------------ Back to the howling old owl in the woods , hunting the horny back toad Oh I've finally decided my future lies beyond the yellow brick road...
...16 Jahren: Candle In The Wind 1997 wird die erfolgreichste Single aller Zeiten. Und wieder gibt's was dazu im deutschen Rolling Stone. Diesmal zwar ohne die übliche Arroganz und Möchtegern-Wichtigtuerei, aber doch eher zweifelhaft "recherchiert": "Elton John...beschließt daraufhin als Tribut eine Neuaufnahme seines 1973er-Hits "Candle In The Wind". Dabei nimmt er leichte Änderungen im Text vor" http://www.rollingstone.de/magazin/rewin...ler-zeiten.html