Face to Face 1994
Tour by Elton John and Billy Joel | |||||||||||||
Start date | July 8, 1994 | ||||||||||||
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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 have played their own songs, each other's songs and performed duets. They grossed over US $46 million in just 24 dates in their sold out 2003 tour.[2] John and Joel resumed the Face to Face tour in March 2009 and it ended again, at least for the time being, 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.[3] Joel stated in 2012 that he would no longer tour with John because it restrains his setlists.[4][5]
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.[6][7]
Tour dates
Date | City | Country | Venue | Tickets sold / available | Revenue |
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North America | |||||
July 8, 1994 | Philadelphia | United States | Veterans Stadium[8][9] | 150,511 / 150,511 | $7,315,495 |
July 9, 1994 | |||||
July 12, 1994 | |||||
July 14, 1994 | Orchard Park | Ralph Wilson 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[10] | 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 | Silverdome[11] | 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
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
- Lucille
- Great Ball of Fire
- Piano Man
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 15, 2009. Retrieved 2008-12-06.
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- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 13, 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
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- ^ "Billy Joel mixes lots of music into his Q&A". Gainesville.com. Retrieved March 7, 2012.
- ^ [2] eltonography.com, Retrieved 29 August 2011
- ^ [3] Archived June 25, 2007, at the Wayback Machine shio.org, Retrieved 29 August 2011
- ^ [4] shio.org, Retrieved 29 August 2011
- ^ [5] shio.org, Retrieved 29 August 2011
- ^ [6] shio.org, Retrieved 29 August 2011
- ^ [7] shio.org, Retrieved 29 August 2011
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