HBF Park, Perth, Australia
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is the appropriate ending. It was a pretty good film, but it’s much better in real life
No Donald Duck suit, no Mozart wig, not too many bells and whistles. Elton John has for decades toured Australia replete with all the grand trappings of pomp and glory, but the core of it has remained the man with his voice, his piano and the lyrics of co-writer Bernie Taupin. His Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour is all of this, with an emphasis on taking stock of things making it so much more. It’s the stuff of Hollywood.
This final opening night in Perth is to be an emotional one from the get-go as a mash-up of the hits gets the Stars On 45 treatment over the PA before the rhythmic keyboard thud of Benny And The Jets sounds out with suitable drama, finding Sir Elton John in a gold-trimmed tuxedo and matching electric boots astride his Yamaha grand piano.
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