Orgy of tubes from the 1970s for the farewell tour of the British singer and pianist who performed on Saturday June 11 and Sunday June 12 in Paris La Défense Arena.
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It is a final tour that promises to be endless, especially since it has long believed that it would never resume. Through the fault of the pandemic and health concerns that have led to series reports. After more than half a century of loyalty – and not always good – Services at the trade balance of the United Kingdom, Sir Elton John decided to bow out with the “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour”. In reference to his great work, the double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, published in the fall of 1973 after recording sessions at the famous Château d’Hérouville, near Pontoise (Val-d’Oise). To the “goodbye” of the original title therefore replaced the word “farewell”.
Like those of the day before, the thirty thousands of spectators who met on Sunday June 12 in Paris La Défense Arena, the sportsman built near the Grande Arche, discover on stage a decor reproducing the road to Brique Yellow of the pocket, borrowed from the Magician of Oz. From the introductory cabaret piano of Bennie and the Jets, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road structures the song. With the melancholic break of Candle in the Wind (Marilyn Monroe version, not Diana Princess of Wales), the progressive rock of Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (a model for the opening of Starmania, Michel Berger), La Baston Recreational of Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting and, as expected, the title song to conclude the recall.
A sublime melody, perhaps the most beautiful of Elton John, born when his partnership with the lyricist Bernie Taupin could provoke this pop ecstasy of which Lennon and McCartney had the secret. At the time, Taupin saw his partner lose foot with glory, vodka-tone, soon cocaine (“When are you going to go?/When are you going to land?”) And informed him of his desire to return to The campaign to find its plow and “the owl which hunts the Cornu toad”.
virtual duo with Dua Lipa
It is therefore Elton John’s turn to turn the page, that of long-haul, honors and admiring crowds. This stage release was engaged in the United States in the fall of 2018, shortly before the commercializations of the Biopic Rocket Man, which he co-produced, and the autobiography me Elton John (Albin Michel). It does not mean that the musician intends to give up his main activity. We also have a painful illustration with Cold Heart, an electro sacrifice and Rocket Man, made with her young compatriot, the singer Dua Lipa (present on the screen through a virtual duo). Elton John is however proud of this single of the summer of 2021, extracted from The Lockdown Sessions, album of remote collaborations born from the interruption of this tour, for the very material and futile reason that he allowed him to find the peaks of British rankings.
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