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Reading Eagle: Ben Hasty
Elton John enters the stage Friday night at the Sovereign Center.
Elton John enters the stage Friday night at the Sovereign Center.
According to one of Elton John's new songs, you're never too old to hold somebody.
Apparently you're also never too old to spend most of an evening on stage.
Returning to town for the first time since 2004, the 63-year-old rock veteran treated a filled-to-the-brim Sovereign Center to a two-hour, 45-minute, mostly high-energy set Friday night.
"Last time I was here I broke the house record for attendance," John said, "and tonight there's even more people in here."
The back of the stage was open, allowing for seating behind the band. There truly was no place left to squeeze people.
Dapper in a long tail suit, replete with a sequined rocket man on the back and red-tinted glasses that matched his shirt, Sir Elton Hercules John remains a consummate showman, stealing glances at crowd members in the middle of songs and leaping from the piano bench at the end of them.
He also acknowledged the crowd at every opportunity, walking around the stage between songs, pointing to various sections and thanking everyone for making the night, and his career, such a success. With some artists it seems like a formality, but it felt authentic with John.
The voice isn't what it used to be. He can still power his way through much of the material, but the high parts in songs such as "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," "Levon" and "Tiny Dancer" were handled by members of the band while John harmonized in a lower register.
Reading Eagle: Ben Hasty
Elton John enters the stage Friday night at the Sovereign Center.
Elton John enters the stage Friday night at the Sovereign Center.
The show was dubbed "Rocket Man - The Greatest Hits Live," and many of the 25 selections were indeed radio staples.
But John also dug deep into his 40-plus-year catalog for some lesser-known treats, including energetic renditions of early-'70s gems "Burn Down the Mission" and "Take Me to the Pilot," the latter opening with a lengthy, unaccompanied piano solo from John that was equal parts honky tonk and classical.
He also previewed "You're Never Too Old to Hold Somebody," off a forthcoming album with Leon Russell, joking beforehand that it was the bathroom-break portion of the concert.
Backed by a quintet featuring longtime band members Davey Johnstone on guitars and Nigel Olsson on drums, John kept the playing and arrangements loose, especially in the early going, and the well-oiled band followed his lead flawlessly.
Along with show opener "Funeral for a Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)," which was its always-epic 10-minutes-plus, the band stretched out with extended renditions of "Levon" and the darkly funky "Madman Across the Water."
Forty-five minutes in, the band was only five songs into the set.
The pace sped up from that point, reaching a fever pitch at the end of the main set with a quartet of "Bennie and the Jets," "The Bitch is Back," "I'm Still Standing" and "Crocodile Rock," John speeding from one song to the next, barely giving the crowd a chance to catch its breath.
Before his encore of "Your Song" and an unaccompanied "Circle of Life," John spent five minutes signing autographs at the front of the stage.
Along with the requisite ticket stubs and album jackets, John also added his signature to an 8-track tape, a purse and a platform shoe.
Elton John at the Ryan White benefit concert
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Elton John at the Ryan White benefit concert
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Elton John: long, long time coming
http://www.vindy.com/news/2010/apr/29/elton-john-long-long-time-coming/Published: Thu, April 29, 2010 @ 12:01 a.m.
By JOHN BENSONentertainment@vindy.com
Little did we know that
in 1971 when Elton John sang “It’s gonna be a long, long time” from his hit single “Rocket Man,” he could have been referring to the decades that it would take before he played a show in Youngstown. Now, after more than 40 years of pop-rock greatness and with more than 3,000 live shows under his belt, John is finally coming to our town.
He’ll be in concert Saturday with his band at Covelli Centre.
Granted, history won’t remember the concert on the same level as say selling out Dodger Stadium (wearing a Donald Duck costume, nonetheless) in the ’70s or performing with Australia’s Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (dressed as Mozart) in the ’80s, but you better believe the Mahoning Valley will treat it as such.
A classic-rock ambassador and 1994 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Reginald Dwight (aka Elton John) is among a handful of acts that for decades has provided a soundtrack of our existence. Baby Boomers and younger generations can attest to memories of “Your Song,” “Tiny Dancer,” “Rocket Man” and “Bennie and the Jets” helping us get through the ’70s, while “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues,” “I’m Still Standing” and “Sad Songs [Say So Much]” did the same in the ’80s. Then in the ’90s came “The One,” “Circle of Life” and “Believe.” Also, don’t forget when John helped the world mourn the sudden death of Princess Diana — his friend — with “Candle in the Wind 1997.”
However, the aforementioned hits are just a small sample of John’s popular catalog, which makes him one of the top-selling solo artists of all time with 35 gold and 25 platinum albums, 29 consecutive Top 40 hits and more than 250 million records sold worldwide.
A celebration of his vast career is what John has in store for his barnstorming tour through the Midwest, which includes concerts in smaller, working-class towns such as Grand Rapids, Mich.; Toledo and, of course, Youngstown. Billed as just “Elton John With Band,” the lineup — Davey Johnstone on guitar, Bob Birch on bass, John Mahon on percussion, Nigel Olsson on drums and Kim Bullard on keyboards — will be staging “Rocket Man: the Greatest Hits Live” concert that ran for years in Las Vegas.
If this is the same show note-for-note, fans won’t be disappointed. One hit single after another will fuel what should be a sing-along evening.
Having witnessed the Sin City show a few years back, the lasting memory revolves around an extended rocking version of “Rocket Man,” with video (originally used for John’s 2001 song “This Train Don’t Stop There Any More”) of Justin Timberlake as a young Elton John that touched on his ’70s existence as a closeted rock star and drug addict.
The moment was jaw dropping as John sang “And I think it’s gonna be a long, long time ’til touch down brings me ’round again to find, I’m not the man they think I am at home/Oh, no no no, I’m a rocket man/Rocket man/Burnin’ out his fuse up here alone,” while the video clip depicted a foggy existence filled with backstage vampires and an avoidance of reality.
Let’s hope such touching
moments will come in spades when after a long, long time John brings his special magic and touches down in Youngstown.
April 29, 2010
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