{"id":13689,"date":"2017-03-12T13:58:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T20:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=13689"},"modified":"2017-03-13T12:51:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T19:51:32","slug":"sir-elton-rattles-victorias-walls-with-ivory-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/03\/12\/sir-elton-rattles-victorias-walls-with-ivory-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Elton rattles Victoria\u2019s walls with ivory keys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elton John, two weeks shy of 70, kicked off a double header in Victoria last night. I saw him on his last visit to the city in February of 2011, not all that long ago, but there is still next to nothing that can prepare you for an Elton John show. His extended piano solos before \u201cLevon\u201d and \u201cRocket Man\u201d were simply spine-tingling and out of this world. Perhaps what sticks out the most for me about John is that no one in the entire building is having more fun than he is.<\/p>\n

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Elton John, now almost 70, rocked Victoria hard last night (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It took him a few songs to find his ivory fingers. He looked a bit tired and unsure during the first songs, \u201cFuneral For A Friend\/Love Lies bleeding\u201d and \u201cBennie And The Jets,\u201d but he settled in after that, showing Victoria just how at home he was on stage, which he said he would take any day over being in the studio.<\/p>\n

John took a moment between songs\u2014and his routine bows at the end of every number\u2014to tell us he would be 70 soon. Despite the fact that 50 years has passed in his partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin, he told the audience that he can still remember where he was when Taupin gave him the lyrics to \u201cYour Song\u201d\u2014which was done last night without flaw, and with justice to the many years and generations it has touched\u2014and thought, \u201cI better not mess this up; this is beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

The heart, the energy and the passion in his performance is unparalleled. John is performing here again tonight and anyone lucky enough to go will find themselves in the presence of one of the most talented and creative minds to ever live. The sound of his fingers hammering Yamaha keys is electrifying, chilling, and invigorating.<\/p>\n

Despite a few technical hiccups with the bass during \u201cRocket Man,\u201d this performance was flawless. The few glitches were a short ripple in a pond that gathered 50 years of the unifying magic of auditory art and creative process. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elton John, two weeks shy of 70, kicked off a double header in Victoria last night. I saw him on his last visit to the city in February of 2011, not all that long ago, but there is still next to nothing that can prepare you for an Elton John show. His extended piano solos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13691,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13689\/revisions\/13691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}