Back in 1980, Elton John performed a free concert to an estimated 400,000 fans on The Great Lawn in Central Park in New York City. He was joined by the Elton John Band on his 1980 World Tour. You can download most of the show from an FM recording bootleg below. Thanks to speedymjb for the upload. Elton John 1980-09-13 Central Park New York, NY FM Broadcast 320 kbps Setlist/Tracklist: 01. Radio Introduction 02. Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding 03. Tiny Dancer 04. Goodbye [...]
One of my all time favorite activities of absolutely ever (say that 5 times fast) is singing along to songs. I sing loudly, with deep feeling. I sing with interpretive dance moves. I sing with great abandon, and rarely in tune. And I encourage everyone to do so as well; it just makes you feel better, no matter what. For those of you who may be shy, I present to you my top three fool-proof sing along list. If you can resist these songs, then our friendship probably wasn't meant to be. : Paul Simon - You Can [...]
Happening across the movie King Kong on cable the other night, something occurred to me - it might have been the most influential movie of my childhood. I’d seen the original version watching it on the late, late show when I slept over at a friend’s house in second grade. Not long after, the hype began for the remake. It was nothing compared to the hullabaloo for some movies now – no cable, no internet – but it seemed to begin a year before and the scope and duration was something I’d never seen [...]
Some say that Elton John's music is fairly recognisable, and I would agree with that. However, that's not necessarily a bad thing: if an artist is good enough to have such a bold identity that's recognised in all their music, then surely that's a testament to their talent. This is one of his most iconic songs, and a sure fire demonstration of what an indelible combination his voice and piano are. Let's not forget that slide guitar either, and the back up vocals and... aw heck, its brilliant. Rocket Man by [...]
The past seven days saw Justin Bieber get a new tattoo, Carly Rae Jepsen reveal her Kiss tracklist, Madonna and Elton John reportedly bury the hatchet, Nicki Minaj come out as a Republican and, of course, the staging of the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards . Our readers offered up commentary on all these shenanigans, a bulk of which we've rounded up below. Have at it, pop [...]
Welcome back to the Hype Index , our Soundbytes segment that manages to squeeze an entire week of music news into one very opinionated list. Stevie Wonder and Nicki Minaj started off September in hot water, while Madonna and Elton John reportedly hugged it out. The MTV Video Music Awards turned 28, but without Lady Gaga or Kanye West [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Music Appreciation Getty | Getty Sometimes people in the music world can be really mean. Like when Nick Cave burned the Red Hot Chili Peppers , saying "I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers." Or the time Oasis ' Noel Gallagher said of [...]
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Era il 31 agosto e il mondo intero era rimasto senza parole per la tragica notizia della morte di Lady Diana, a causa di un incidente stradale. Teorie, complotti, lacrime, accuse, pettegolezzi, congiure. Tutti questi temi hanno accompagnato i mesi a seguire e ancora oggi la scomparsa della Principessa triste è ricordata con amarezza, soprattutto dal popolo inglese che tanto l'amava. E, in occasione del funerale di Diana, Elton John ha riadattato il testo di "Candle in the wind", creato nel 1973 . Il brano, nel mondo, ha superato i 40 milioni [...]
Era il 31 agosto e il mondo intero era rimasto senza parole per la tragica notizia della morte di Lady Diana, a causa di un incidente stradale. Teorie, complotti, lacrime, accuse, pettegolezzi, congiure. Tutti questi temi hanno accompagnato i mesi a seguire e ancora oggi la scomparsa della Principessa triste è ricordata con amarezza, soprattutto dal popolo inglese che tanto l'amava. E, in occasione del funerale di Diana, Elton John ha riadattato il testo di "Candle in the wind", creato nel 1973 . Il brano, nel mondo, ha superato i 40 milioni [...]
Filed under: Exclusive , The Hit List Michael Ochs Archives (2) We've written about the musicians who are super smart or spent time as teachers, but this year for back-to-school season, we decided to look at the famous artists who made it big without graduating high school. There are dozens of big names who never earned a diploma, so we decided to narrow it down to the ones who have interesting stories: The Beatle who [...]
A todos nos ha pasado que estamos cantando cierta canción con nuestros amigos y de repente nos damos cuenta que en determinada línea cada quien dice algo distinto. Luego pasa que, al buscar en Internet la letra correcta, encontramos cinco versiones distintas. En fin.. Las siguientes son algunas de las interpretaciones erróneas de canciones bastante conocidas, y los versos originales de las mismas.
You might assume the likes of Lady Gaga and Katy Perry would easily land high on Forbes ' annual list of Highest-Paid Celebrities, given their tireless stream of hits flowing into the market. But not so, says the publication. In fact, the music mover, shaker and earner who landed highest on the roundup (at #5) is a 47-year-old rap veteran whose last LP was released in 1999 — and that would be Dr. Dre . Thanks to the [...]
Non vuole proprio finire questa diatriba fra Madonna ed Elton John . Il nuovo gancio destro, seppur con grazia, eleganza e finezza, lo sferra Miss Ciccone che durante un suo recente concerto dedica al cantante inglese un pezzo della bellissima "Masterpiece" introducendolo con le seguenti parole: "Vorrei dedicare questa canzone ad Elton John. So che lui è un grande fan della canzone, e so che è anche un grande fan della sottoscritta E sai una cosa? Io ti perdono!". Ed è proprio "Masterpiece" la causa di [...]
Madonna appeared to close the book on her long-standing feud with Sir Elton John at her recent concert in Nice, France. Responding to Elton's name-calling in early August — he panned her as a "fairground stripper" in an interview for Australian TV — Madonna dedicated a song to the Crocodile Rocker, telling the audience: "... I know he's a fan of mine, and you know what? I forgive him." The Material Girl then broke into "Masterpiece" — her Golden Globe-winning song that beat Elton's own [...]
Robert Wayne Birch era il bassista di Elton John , aveva 56 anni ed è stato trovato morto vicino alla sua casa di Los Angeles. Secondo i primi riscontri, l'uomo si sarebbe suicidato con un colpo di pistola alla testa . Il sito TMZ rivela alcuni dettagli: nessuna lettera d'addio accanto al corpo e nessuna traccia di droga. Birch ha sempre affiancato Elton John a partire dagli anni '90 ma aveva lavorato, nel corso della sua carriera, anche con Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Cher, Sting [...]
Kate Bush perplexes me. Not just because I still have absolutely no idea what my favorite song by her, 1982's "The Dreaming," is about. Nor is it just because she hasn't toured since 1979, is rarely photographed in public, and takes forever-and-a-day breaks between studio albums then releases two in one year (2011's Director's Cut and 50 Words for Snow ). It's all of the above and more, including her no-show at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics . I was bewildered and thoroughly disappointed when I heard that Bush, who [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Jeff Fusco, Getty Images Bob Birch, a bassist who played with Elton John for 20 years, was found dead this morning of an apparent suicide . The 56-year-old died of what police believe was a self-inflicted gunshot would. TMZ reports that Birch's body was found around the corner from his home in Los Angeles with a single bullet wound in his head . John's website [...]
My Morning Jacket play The Mann this Friday, August 17th with Band Of Horses. MMJ lead singer Jim James knows his stuff when it comes to doing cover songs and below we offer up a few songs that the band performed at the Forecastle Festival in Louisville this past July. Below, download MMY covering George ... Continue reading
Lately I find myself wishing upon a star that we could return to the good old days of the silent-film era when they (those shining stars) were seen and not heard (or read) quite so much. Not because I thought The Artist was such a great movie (although it was), but for their own good. Think of how much worse George Valentin would have had it if the world had been able to hear him. Would his portrayer, Jean Dujardin, have won the Best Actor Oscar over George Clooney and Brad Pitt if we could have heard him [...]
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