Elton John is farewell to the New York area on a farewell yellow brick road tour this weekend.
Swan rhyme trekking from the man who gave the first hit "Your Song" 52 years ago after starting in September 2018 will bring the piano to MetLife Stadium on Saturday I pulled it up. The first night of his two last local shows.
And from the moment the show started by hitting the unmistakable chords of the 1973 classic "Bennie and the Jets," the 75-year-old musical legend began crowding instead of fighting this Saturday night. I shook.
The singer, who was shining from the beginning, wore a glittering black and white ensemble. Although he decorated his tailcoat with pink and green flowers, was relatively modest by the standards of young Elton. John was a very powerful voice and lively finger for a man retiring from the road.
Probably helped by John's five days off Probably. The final concert of this stadium tour will continue on Sunday night at MetLife. But the man caught fire on a hot and humid night that would wipe out a much younger man.
Did he trample ivory into soulful obedience with numbers such as "Philadelphia Freedom" and "I think that's why they call it the blues", or "Tiny Dancer" "Did you bounce the key with the utmost elegance?" John was delighted when he delivered the crowd's favorites after the crowd's favorites.
Inspiring the title of the 2019 biography, "Rocketman" is Met, when John and the band perform a bluesy jamming with a long ending, the iPhone illuminates the night like a star. Soared above life.
Meanwhile, two legendary women highlight. John removed it only to him on the piano and gave a gentle rendition of "Candle in the Wind" that once again illuminated the flames of Marilyn Monroe.
Meanwhile, before playing "The Wall of Life," John remembered how Aretha Franklin hijacked the song to make it hers. He then shared how the sick Franklin performed her last performance for the Elton John AIDS Foundation and "completely destroyed the place." Dedicating the "wall of life" to the Queen of her soul, he seemed to guide her and put some extra growls and gospel in his voice.
These are his last farewells in the New York area It's a show, but like many others, John, whose years-long tour has been postponed because of COVID, still has a long farewell before him. After the North American leg of his stadium show, which began in Philadelphia on July 15, he will head to Australia and Europe in 2023 for a concert that will continue until July next year.
Obviously, Rocketman is out in one spectacular big bang.