After the huge success of the previous year's Face to Face concerts Billy Joel and Elton John set out on the road again. They only reunited for twelve concerts visiting both the United States and Canada. They played from California down to Florida covering eight states including Toronto.
The concerts took on the same form as the previous year where John and Joel with their bands would perform a few songs together, then John would take to the stage with his band without Joel. Joel would then do his own set followed by a reunion on stage with John before leaving stage. They would return for a few songs for an encore.
Joel stated in 2012 that he would no longer tour with Elton because it restrains his setlists.
Tour dates
Setlist
Elton John & Billy Joel
Your Song
Honesty
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Elton John & Band
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)
In the winter of 2001 Elton John set out on the road with Billy Joel again with their very popular Face to Face concert series. The tour started in Honolulu, Hawaii (somewhere Elton and Billy had not performed together before). This first leg of the tour came to close with a two date stint at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Paradise on 17 and 18 February.
Elton and Billy then picked up the tour again on 9 April in Denver, Colorado and the 2001 performances came to a close with a two night stint at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 15 and 16 May.
Elton and Billy would perform the 'Face To Face' concerts again next time, the following year. Joel stated in 2012 that he would no longer tour with Elton because it restrains his setlists.
Riding on the success of the previous two tours Elton John and Billy Joel once again hit the stadiums. The tour had previously only toured in the United States, but this time they visited Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Europe avoiding the United States.
On 6 June, Joel pulled out of a concert at Wembley Stadium in London, England due to illness. John performed the show without him, but he performed several of Joel's songs. The same happened in Zurich, Switzerland at Letzigrund Stadium on 30 June; this was the last night of the 1998 tour.
Joel stated in 2012 that he would no longer tour with Elton because it restrains his setlists.
Tour dates
Setlists
Elton John & Billy Joel & Bands
Your Song
Honesty
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Elton John & Band
Simple Life
The One
Grey Seal
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Honky Cat
Can You Feel the Love Tonight
Uptown Girl
I Don't Wanna Go On with You Like That
I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues (with Billy Joel)
Heart Hampshire (formerly Ocean FM and Ocean Sound) was a Britishindependent local radio station serving South Hampshire, West Sussex and the Isle of Wight primarily for Portsmouth, Winchester and Southampton. The station served an area of England with a high proportion of commuters to London and a higher-than-average disposable income from middle-class families and people over 45. Its target age range was 25-45.
History
Ocean Sound's predecessor, Radio Victory provided the first local commercial radio service in the South of England in 1975, with its small transmission area around Portsmouth. The station was disliked by the then regulator and when it Independent Broadcasting Authority re-advertised the Portsmouth licence to include Southampton and Winchester, Victory lost out to a new consortium called Ocean Sound Ltd. Ocean Sound proposed an expanded coverage area taking in Southampton. Radio Victory ceased operations in June 1986, three months earlier than the expiry date of its franchise, with a test transmission informing listeners of the unprecedented situation. Ocean Sound took over programme provision that October from a new purpose-built broadcast unit in a business park at Segensworth West on the western outskirts of Fareham, Hampshire.
Heart is a radio network of 21 adult contemporarylocal radio stations operated by Global Radio in the United Kingdom, broadcasting a mix of local and networked programming. Eighteen of the Heart stations are owned by Global, while the other three are operated under franchise agreements.
Heart 106.2 began test transmissions in London in August 1995, prior to the station launch on 5 September. The test transmissions included live broadcasts of WPLJ from New York.
The Heart programming format was modified in 1996. The new format saw the "soft" AC music replaced with a generally more neutral Hot AC music playlist. Century 106 in the East Midlands became the third station of the Heart network in 2005 after GCap Media sold Century. Chrysalis' radio holdings were sold to Global Radio in 2007.
The show ran for 1,019 performances in its original 1955 Broadway production. Adler and Ross's success with it and The Pajama Game seemed to point to a bright future for them, but Ross suddenly died of chronic bronchiectasis, at the age of twenty-nine, a few months after it opened.
Productions
The producers Harold Prince, Robert Griffith, and Frederick Brisson had decided that the lead actress for the part of "Lola" had to be a dancer. They offered the role to both the movie actress Mitzi Gaynor and ballet dancer Zizi Jeanmaire, each of whom turned down the role. Although Gwen Verdon had sung just one song in her previous show (Can-Can), the producers were willing to take a chance on her. She initially refused, preferring to assist another choreographer, but finally agreed. Choreographer Bob Fosse insisted on meeting her before working with her, and after meeting and working for a brief time, they each agreed to the arrangement.
Although Lin Yutang claimed "Face cannot be translated or defined", compare these definitions:
The term face may be defined as the positive social value a person effectively claims for himself by the line others assume he has taken during a particular contact. Face is an image of self, delineated in terms of approved social attributes.
Face is the respectability and/or deference which a person can claim for himself from others, by virtue of the relative position he occupies in his social network and the degree to which he is judged to have functioned adequately in that position as well as acceptably in his general conduct. (Ho 1975:883)
Elton John & Billy Joel - Face to Face: Live in Japan (1998) [60FPS]
Elton John and Billy Joel live at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on March 31, 1998 ('Face to Face' Tour 1998). I first restored the video footage by deinterlacing it and doubling the framerate to 60 fps. Then I restored the video by adding color correction (brightness/contrast, saturation, lighting/color levels) and sharpness. I restored the audio by adding compression, EQ, and soft reverb to add to the concert atmosphere.
| Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
ELTON JOHN & BILLY JOEL
0:03:09 - Your Song
0:07:17 - Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
BILLY JOEL
0:13:29 - Prelude / Angry Young Man
0:19:05 - The Stranger
0:23:50 - Just the Way You Are
0:27:20 - Allentown
0:31:35 - I Go to Extremes
0:36:27 - My Life (with Elton John)
0:42:32 - The River of Dreams
0:47:55 - Candle in the Wind
0:52:13 - It'...
published: 18 May 2023
Elton John & Billy Joel - Face To Face 1998 Live in Tokyo - Bennie and the Jets
A Very Rare and Lengthy Preformance of Elton and Billy preforming Bennie and the Jets live in Tokyo 1998
published: 08 Nov 2010
Elton John - Live in Japan 1998 Face to Face - Take Me To The Pilot
Over 10 (!) minutes of Take Me To The Pilot
published: 08 Nov 2010
Elton John & Billy Joel - You May Be Right - Face to Face - Live in Japan 1998
この曲はノリますネ。
ちなみに私、ここコンサート見に行きました。
余談ですが、ジョン・レノンの作品「Lucy In the Sky With Diamond」(70年代にエルトン・ジョンがカバーしてナンバー1に)がアンコール時(ピアノマンの前だったか)に演奏されたのですが放送ではカットされてしまいました。版権等がネックだったのでしょうか?とっても残念。
published: 30 Jul 2010
Paul Holmes interviews Elton John & Billy Joel 1998
Paul Holmes interviews Elton John & Billy Joel on the eave of their Face to Face tour of New Zealand March 7-8 1998
published: 13 Jul 2013
Face to Face
Provided to YouTube by TuneCore
Face to Face · Alessandro Galdieri
Daymare: 1998 (Original Soundtrack)
℗ 2019 Invader Studios
Released on: 2019-09-16
Auto-generated by YouTube.
published: 15 Sep 2019
Face To Face
Provided to YouTube by Epic
Face To Face · Close II You
Closer
℗ 1998 Sony Music Entertainment (Holland) B.V.
Released on: 1998-05-06
Composer, Lyricist, Mixing Engineer, Producer: Ed van Otterdijk
Composer, Lyricist, Mixing Engineer, Producer: Eeg van Kruysdijk
Composer, Lyricist: William Third
Auto-generated by YouTube.
published: 06 Nov 2014
AYUMI HAMASAKI 1st single(1998) poker face
published: 21 Aug 2010
Cinematic View of Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals FULL GAME 4K HDR
Just in case this ever disappears from the web, there's a copy here.
published: 26 Sep 2024
face to face - I'm Trying (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Music video for "I'm Trying" by face to face. Directed by Darren Doane.
Elton John and Billy Joel live at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on March 31, 1998 ('Face to Face' Tour 1998). I first restored the video footage by deinterlaci...
Elton John and Billy Joel live at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on March 31, 1998 ('Face to Face' Tour 1998). I first restored the video footage by deinterlacing it and doubling the framerate to 60 fps. Then I restored the video by adding color correction (brightness/contrast, saturation, lighting/color levels) and sharpness. I restored the audio by adding compression, EQ, and soft reverb to add to the concert atmosphere.
| Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
ELTON JOHN & BILLY JOEL
0:03:09 - Your Song
0:07:17 - Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
BILLY JOEL
0:13:29 - Prelude / Angry Young Man
0:19:05 - The Stranger
0:23:50 - Just the Way You Are
0:27:20 - Allentown
0:31:35 - I Go to Extremes
0:36:27 - My Life (with Elton John)
0:42:32 - The River of Dreams
0:47:55 - Candle in the Wind
0:52:13 - It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
0:56:32 - Big Shot
ELTON JOHN
1:01:46 - Grey Seal
1:05:53 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
1:09:11 - Can You Feel the Love Tonight
1:13:35 - Uptown Girl
1:16:55 - I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues (with Billy Joel)
1:21:54 - Daniel
1:26:04 - Take Me to the Pilot
1:36:33 - Something About the Way You Look Tonight
1:41:36 - Philadelphia Freedom
1:46:54 - Saturday Night's Alright (for Fighting)
ELTON JOHN & BILLY JOEL - ENCORE
1:52:34 - The Bitch is Back
1:56:48 - You May Be Right
ELTON JOHN & BILLY JOEL - 2ND ENCORE
2:02:47 - Piano Man
| Band Members:
The Elton John Band
Elton John - Lead Vocals, Piano
Davey Johnstone - Guitar, Backing Vocals
John Jorgenson - Guitar, Saxophone, Backing Vocals
Guy Babylon - Keyboards
Bob Birch - Bass, Backing Vocals
Charlie Morgan - Drums
John Mahon - Percussion, Backing Vocals
The Billy Joel Band
Billy Joel - Lead Vocals, Piano, Harmonica
David Rosenthal - Keyboards, Piano, Backing Vocals
Tommy Byrnes - Guitar, Backing Vocals
David Santos - Bass, Backing Vocals
Liberty DeVitto - Drums
Crystal Taliefero - Backing Vocals, Percussion, Saxophone, Harmonica, Guitar
Mark Rivera - Saxophone, Guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Elton John and Billy Joel live at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on March 31, 1998 ('Face to Face' Tour 1998). I first restored the video footage by deinterlacing it and doubling the framerate to 60 fps. Then I restored the video by adding color correction (brightness/contrast, saturation, lighting/color levels) and sharpness. I restored the audio by adding compression, EQ, and soft reverb to add to the concert atmosphere.
| Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
ELTON JOHN & BILLY JOEL
0:03:09 - Your Song
0:07:17 - Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
BILLY JOEL
0:13:29 - Prelude / Angry Young Man
0:19:05 - The Stranger
0:23:50 - Just the Way You Are
0:27:20 - Allentown
0:31:35 - I Go to Extremes
0:36:27 - My Life (with Elton John)
0:42:32 - The River of Dreams
0:47:55 - Candle in the Wind
0:52:13 - It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
0:56:32 - Big Shot
ELTON JOHN
1:01:46 - Grey Seal
1:05:53 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
1:09:11 - Can You Feel the Love Tonight
1:13:35 - Uptown Girl
1:16:55 - I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues (with Billy Joel)
1:21:54 - Daniel
1:26:04 - Take Me to the Pilot
1:36:33 - Something About the Way You Look Tonight
1:41:36 - Philadelphia Freedom
1:46:54 - Saturday Night's Alright (for Fighting)
ELTON JOHN & BILLY JOEL - ENCORE
1:52:34 - The Bitch is Back
1:56:48 - You May Be Right
ELTON JOHN & BILLY JOEL - 2ND ENCORE
2:02:47 - Piano Man
| Band Members:
The Elton John Band
Elton John - Lead Vocals, Piano
Davey Johnstone - Guitar, Backing Vocals
John Jorgenson - Guitar, Saxophone, Backing Vocals
Guy Babylon - Keyboards
Bob Birch - Bass, Backing Vocals
Charlie Morgan - Drums
John Mahon - Percussion, Backing Vocals
The Billy Joel Band
Billy Joel - Lead Vocals, Piano, Harmonica
David Rosenthal - Keyboards, Piano, Backing Vocals
Tommy Byrnes - Guitar, Backing Vocals
David Santos - Bass, Backing Vocals
Liberty DeVitto - Drums
Crystal Taliefero - Backing Vocals, Percussion, Saxophone, Harmonica, Guitar
Mark Rivera - Saxophone, Guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
この曲はノリますネ。
ちなみに私、ここコンサート見に行きました。
余談ですが、ジョン・レノンの作品「Lucy In the Sky With Diamond」(70年代にエルトン・ジョンがカバーしてナンバー1に)がアンコール時(ピアノマンの前だったか)に演奏されたのですが放送ではカットされてしまいました。版権等がネ...
この曲はノリますネ。
ちなみに私、ここコンサート見に行きました。
余談ですが、ジョン・レノンの作品「Lucy In the Sky With Diamond」(70年代にエルトン・ジョンがカバーしてナンバー1に)がアンコール時(ピアノマンの前だったか)に演奏されたのですが放送ではカットされてしまいました。版権等がネックだったのでしょうか?とっても残念。
この曲はノリますネ。
ちなみに私、ここコンサート見に行きました。
余談ですが、ジョン・レノンの作品「Lucy In the Sky With Diamond」(70年代にエルトン・ジョンがカバーしてナンバー1に)がアンコール時(ピアノマンの前だったか)に演奏されたのですが放送ではカットされてしまいました。版権等がネックだったのでしょうか?とっても残念。
Provided to YouTube by TuneCore
Face to Face · Alessandro Galdieri
Daymare: 1998 (Original Soundtrack)
℗ 2019 Invader Studios
Released on: 2019-09-16
Auto-...
Provided to YouTube by TuneCore
Face to Face · Alessandro Galdieri
Daymare: 1998 (Original Soundtrack)
℗ 2019 Invader Studios
Released on: 2019-09-16
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by TuneCore
Face to Face · Alessandro Galdieri
Daymare: 1998 (Original Soundtrack)
℗ 2019 Invader Studios
Released on: 2019-09-16
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by Epic
Face To Face · Close II You
Closer
℗ 1998 Sony Music Entertainment (Holland) B.V.
Released on: 1998-05-06
Composer, Lyricist, M...
Provided to YouTube by Epic
Face To Face · Close II You
Closer
℗ 1998 Sony Music Entertainment (Holland) B.V.
Released on: 1998-05-06
Composer, Lyricist, Mixing Engineer, Producer: Ed van Otterdijk
Composer, Lyricist, Mixing Engineer, Producer: Eeg van Kruysdijk
Composer, Lyricist: William Third
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by Epic
Face To Face · Close II You
Closer
℗ 1998 Sony Music Entertainment (Holland) B.V.
Released on: 1998-05-06
Composer, Lyricist, Mixing Engineer, Producer: Ed van Otterdijk
Composer, Lyricist, Mixing Engineer, Producer: Eeg van Kruysdijk
Composer, Lyricist: William Third
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Elton John and Billy Joel live at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on March 31, 1998 ('Face to Face' Tour 1998). I first restored the video footage by deinterlacing it and doubling the framerate to 60 fps. Then I restored the video by adding color correction (brightness/contrast, saturation, lighting/color levels) and sharpness. I restored the audio by adding compression, EQ, and soft reverb to add to the concert atmosphere.
| Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
ELTON JOHN & BILLY JOEL
0:03:09 - Your Song
0:07:17 - Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
BILLY JOEL
0:13:29 - Prelude / Angry Young Man
0:19:05 - The Stranger
0:23:50 - Just the Way You Are
0:27:20 - Allentown
0:31:35 - I Go to Extremes
0:36:27 - My Life (with Elton John)
0:42:32 - The River of Dreams
0:47:55 - Candle in the Wind
0:52:13 - It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
0:56:32 - Big Shot
ELTON JOHN
1:01:46 - Grey Seal
1:05:53 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
1:09:11 - Can You Feel the Love Tonight
1:13:35 - Uptown Girl
1:16:55 - I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues (with Billy Joel)
1:21:54 - Daniel
1:26:04 - Take Me to the Pilot
1:36:33 - Something About the Way You Look Tonight
1:41:36 - Philadelphia Freedom
1:46:54 - Saturday Night's Alright (for Fighting)
ELTON JOHN & BILLY JOEL - ENCORE
1:52:34 - The Bitch is Back
1:56:48 - You May Be Right
ELTON JOHN & BILLY JOEL - 2ND ENCORE
2:02:47 - Piano Man
| Band Members:
The Elton John Band
Elton John - Lead Vocals, Piano
Davey Johnstone - Guitar, Backing Vocals
John Jorgenson - Guitar, Saxophone, Backing Vocals
Guy Babylon - Keyboards
Bob Birch - Bass, Backing Vocals
Charlie Morgan - Drums
John Mahon - Percussion, Backing Vocals
The Billy Joel Band
Billy Joel - Lead Vocals, Piano, Harmonica
David Rosenthal - Keyboards, Piano, Backing Vocals
Tommy Byrnes - Guitar, Backing Vocals
David Santos - Bass, Backing Vocals
Liberty DeVitto - Drums
Crystal Taliefero - Backing Vocals, Percussion, Saxophone, Harmonica, Guitar
Mark Rivera - Saxophone, Guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
この曲はノリますネ。
ちなみに私、ここコンサート見に行きました。
余談ですが、ジョン・レノンの作品「Lucy In the Sky With Diamond」(70年代にエルトン・ジョンがカバーしてナンバー1に)がアンコール時(ピアノマンの前だったか)に演奏されたのですが放送ではカットされてしまいました。版権等がネックだったのでしょうか?とっても残念。
Provided to YouTube by TuneCore
Face to Face · Alessandro Galdieri
Daymare: 1998 (Original Soundtrack)
℗ 2019 Invader Studios
Released on: 2019-09-16
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by Epic
Face To Face · Close II You
Closer
℗ 1998 Sony Music Entertainment (Holland) B.V.
Released on: 1998-05-06
Composer, Lyricist, Mixing Engineer, Producer: Ed van Otterdijk
Composer, Lyricist, Mixing Engineer, Producer: Eeg van Kruysdijk
Composer, Lyricist: William Third
Auto-generated by YouTube.
After the huge success of the previous year's Face to Face concerts Billy Joel and Elton John set out on the road again. They only reunited for twelve concerts visiting both the United States and Canada. They played from California down to Florida covering eight states including Toronto.
The concerts took on the same form as the previous year where John and Joel with their bands would perform a few songs together, then John would take to the stage with his band without Joel. Joel would then do his own set followed by a reunion on stage with John before leaving stage. They would return for a few songs for an encore.
Joel stated in 2012 that he would no longer tour with Elton because it restrains his setlists.
Tour dates
Setlist
Elton John & Billy Joel
Your Song
Honesty
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Elton John & Band
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)