The set list provides a sometimes playful, sometimes somber variety in tone.
He also performed his usual hits like “Crocodile Rock” and “Bennie and the Jets.” John’s “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” includes tributes to artists such as Marylin Monroe - to whom John dedicated his hit song “Candle in the Wind” - and Aretha Franklin. Now, he is finishing off the “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour, which started in 2018 before it was delayed because of the pandemic. John began his American career in 1970 at the Troubadour Club in Los Angeles. He is still standing, married and a father after years of society telling him neither of those were options for him as a gay man rising to stardom in the ’70s. The 5-foot-7-inch man is still standing after 4,000 performances in over 80 countries in a career spanning six decades. When you’re standing before the legend that is Sir Elton Hercules John, the chorus of his 1983 hit “I’m Still Standing” isn’t merely a catchy refrain - it’s an anthem. The Brooklyn performance is one stop on his final tour, “Farewell Yellow Brick Road.” He sat at the piano repeating the lyrics, “I’m still standing,” while the audience chanted “yeah, yeah, yeah” back to him. Elton John, the 74-year-old singer, donned a baby blue suit with a picture of a bedazzled cat on the back of the blazer as he stood on the stage of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on March 2.
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