All rights reserved. Add setlist, 27 activities (last edit by sabwh, 19 Oct 2021, 01:00 Etc/UTC). Tour statistics John said this latest worldtour will serve as a final bow, of sorts, to his international audiences, "Before the children, I thought, 'This is what I'm going to be doing until the day I die,' but I don't want to be traveling away from my children," John told "Good Morning America" in 2018when asked why he's decided to retire now.
His music will live on, but I can tell you he wasa great, great guy. Tour statistics [url=https://www.setlist.fm/edit?setlist=73d77ac9&step=song]Edit this setlist[/url] | [url=https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/elton-john-and-billy-joel-4bf7f396.html]More Elton John & Billy Joel setlists[/url], Setlist Insider: Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time), I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues. He took a moment to reflect on the recent death ofFoo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who'd died on Friday at age 50 while on tour with the band in Bogota, Columbia. Reach him at ihamlet@gannett.comor 319-600-2124, follow him on Twitter @IsaacHamlet. Add setlist, 9 activities (last edit by Starbreaker, 9 Dec 2017, 08:33 Etc/UTC). Add setlist, 13 activities (last edit by cma47, 23 Mar 2022, 05:35 Etc/UTC). The Big Picture Before performing that final song, John reflected on the Iowa tour stop, which markedthe 202nd on his farewell tour, with more than 100 showsstill ahead of him. John and his partner,David Furnish, had their first surrogate son in 2010.
Each of the performer's songs was accompanied by a visual element on the screen behind him sometimes a full-length music video, other times a psychedelic animated screen that would play before displaying a close-up of John's live performance. The sound of a countdown played over arena speakers and an array of lights a makeshift starfield spun through the audience. Tour: [url=https://www.setlist.fm/edit?setlist=438913ef&step=song]Edit this setlist[/url] | [url=https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/elton-john-63d6be6f.html]More Elton John setlists[/url], Setlist Insider: Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues, Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time), Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. Backwhen tickets for the show were first announced, more than14,000sold within anhourof becoming available. His music has also touched the film world, where he worked on the music for Disney's "The Lion King," which was later adapted into the highest-grossing Broadway show of all time. Later in the show, John put the arena speakers to the test as the sounds of a thunderstorm played over synth music while the audience was lit by a dark purple light. Use this setlist for your event review and get all updates automatically! Add setlist, 6 activities (last edit by KMan345123, 28 Mar 2022, 05:49 Etc/UTC). ", More:Here's what Register readers said is their favorite Elton John song. If this is indeed goodbye to Des Moines, then Sir Elton John offered the thousands who filed into Wells Fargo Arena with memories to last them a lifetime. He'scharted 49 times on the Billboard 200 album charts,has five Grammy wins under his beltand dozens of gold and platinum-selling albums. He then assured the crowd he'd had a lovely 75th birthday and that the age "doesnt feel so bad." This latest appearance was part of John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" tour, originally planned to hitDes Moineson June 11,2020. "I got up this morning to see that Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters had passed away and I was so shocked a true musician who loved life," John said. At the very least, it was an electric way for John to fill a room the day after his 75th birthday. Tour:
Farewell Yellow Brick Road World Tour Though the eventual end of this tour may represent the pop-sensation stepping away from the limelight of touring, John assured viewers ofhis "Good Morning America" interview that he still intended to make music. More recently, his life was the subject of the 2019 award-winningbiopic, "Rocketman," as well as the 2016 documentary "Elton John: Music Man. Tour:
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, [url=https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/elton-john-and-billy-joel/2009/fargodome-fargo-nd-73d77ac9.html][img]https://www.setlist.fm/widgets/setlist-image-v1?id=73d77ac9[/img][/url] ", Hello, Des Moines," John said, adorned in a sequined suit with a cobra on the back, from the bench ofa black Yamaha Disklaviergrandpiano. Isaac Hamletcovers arts, entertainment and culture at the Des Moines Register. Among the piecesperformed, "Rocket Man" wasappropriately noteworthy. 2022 www.desmoinesregister.com. Tour:
But COVID-19 threw those plans out the window, causing the show to be pushed back almost two full years from the originaldate. As chords played on the arena speakers and the audience was bathed inlight and sound, the crowd waselated even before John launched into his openingperformances of"Bennie and the Jets" and"Philadelphia Freedom.