Face to Face 1994
National tour by Elton John and Billy Joel | |||||||||||||
Location | U.S., North America | ||||||||||||
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Start date | July 8, 1994 | ||||||||||||
End date | August 21, 1994 | ||||||||||||
Legs | 1 | ||||||||||||
No. of shows | 21 in total | ||||||||||||
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Beginning in 1994, Elton John toured extensively with Billy Joel on a series of Face to Face tours, making them the longest running and most successful concert tandem in pop music history.[1] During these shows, the two played their own songs, each other's songs and performed duets. They grossed over US $46 million in just 24 days in their sold out 2003 tour.[2][3] John and Joel resumed the Face to Face tour in March 2009 and it ended again in March 2010. Joel denied rumors in the trade press that he canceled a summer 2010 leg of the tour, claiming there were never any dates booked and that he intended to take the year off.[4] Joel stated in 2012 that he would no longer tour with John because it restrains his setlists.[5][6]
The 1994 tour proved a major success playing to huge audiences in packed stadiums across the U.S. starting in East Coast America and ending in South East America.[7][8]
Tour dates
[edit]Date | City | Country | Venue | Tickets sold / available | Revenue |
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North America | |||||
July 8, 1994 | Philadelphia | United States | Veterans Stadium[9][10] | 150,511 / 150,511 | $7,315,495 |
July 9, 1994 | |||||
July 12, 1994 | |||||
July 14, 1994 | Orchard Park | Rich Stadium | 57,058 / 57,500 | $2,380,834 | |
July 17, 1994 | Foxborough | Foxboro Stadium | |||
July 18, 1994 | |||||
July 20, 1994 | Washington, D.C. | RFK Stadium | 51,762 / 51,762 | $2,250,520 | |
July 22, 1994 | East Rutherford | Giants Stadium | 293,539 / 293,539 | $14,889,127 | |
July 24, 1994 | |||||
July 26, 1994 | |||||
July 28, 1994 | |||||
July 29, 1994 | |||||
August 2, 1994 | Pittsburgh | Three Rivers Stadium[11] | 48,829 / 48,829 | $2,203,037 | |
August 6, 1994 | Columbus | Ohio Stadium | 67,606 / 67,606 | $2,710,335 | |
August 9, 1994 | St. Louis | Busch Stadium | 50,807 / 50,807 | $2,445,245 | |
August 11, 1994 | Milwaukee | Milwaukee County Stadium | 55,526 / 55,526 | $2,480,520 | |
August 13, 1994 | Ames | Cyclone Stadium | 52,196 / 52,196 | $2,393,516 | |
August 16, 1994 | San Antonio | Alamodome | 48,741 / 48,741 | $2,009,237 | |
August 18, 1994 | Pontiac | Pontiac Silverdome[12] | 54,125 / 54,125 | $2,444,334 | |
August 19, 1994 | Atlanta | Georgia Dome | 53,356 / 53,356 | $2,632,943 | |
August 21, 1994 | Orlando | Citrus Bowl | 58,320 / 58,320 | $2,297,254 | |
Total | 989,020 / 989,462 | $48,452,497 |
Setlist
[edit]Elton John & Billy Joel
- Your Song
- Honesty
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Elton John
- Philadelphia Freedom
- Take Me to the Pilot
- Levon
- Rocket Man
- Simple Life
- The One
- New York State of Mind
- Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
- I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues (with Billy Joel)
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight
- Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
- Pinball Wizard
Billy Joel
- I Go to Extremes
- Pressure
- Angry Young Man
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
- My Life (with Elton John)
- Allentown
- Lullaby
- River of Dreams
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
- Only the Good Die Young
Elton John & Billy Joel
- The Bitch Is Back
- You May Be Right
- Bennie and the Jets
Encore
- Hard Day's Night (Lennon/McCartney)
- Lucille (Richard Penniman/Albert Collins)
- Great Balls of Fire (Jack Hammer/Otis Blackwell)
- Piano Man
References
[edit]- ^ "Billy Joel & Elton John - St. Pete Times Forum - Tampa, FL Events | Metromix Tampa Bay". Archived from the original on January 15, 2009. Retrieved 2008-12-06. tampabay.metromix.com, Retrieved 29 August 2011
- ^ [1][permanent dead link] soundspike.com, Retrieved 29 August 2011
- ^ Waddell, Ray (November 21, 2005). "Billy Joel Tour Selling Out". Billboard. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
- ^ "Jim DeRogatis". Archived from the original on April 13, 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-10. blogs.suntimes.com, Retrieved 29 August 2011
- ^ "Billy Joel Won't Tour with Elton due to Setlist Constraints". EltonDaily.com. March 3, 2012. Retrieved March 7, 2012.
- ^ "Billy Joel mixes lots of music into his Q&A". Gainesville.com. Retrieved March 7, 2012.
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- ^ [3] Archived June 25, 2007, at the Wayback Machine shio.org, Retrieved 29 August 2011
- ^ [4] Archived October 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine shio.org, Retrieved 29 August 2011
- ^ [5] Archived October 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine shio.org, Retrieved 29 August 2011
- ^ [6] Archived October 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine shio.org, Retrieved 29 August 2011
- ^ [7] Archived October 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine shio.org, Retrieved 29 August 2011