“Crocodile Rock.” “Bennie and the Jets.” “Philadelphia Freedom.” “Tiny Dancer.” “Rocket Man.” “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.”
With more than two dozen pop songs that broke into the Billboard charts Top 10, five Grammy Awards and memorably flamboyant fashion sense, Elton John possesses all the characteristics of pop superstardom. Tonight, he’ll take the stage alongside his musical inspiration and fellow keys legend Leon Russell for a sold-out performance at McKenzie Arena.
The show will be one of only three more Russell and John will perform together during the American leg of John’s tour, The Union, named for the recently released album he and Russell collaborated on and produced by T Bone Burnett.
According to a Dallas Morning News review of the pair’s Nov. 13 concert in Fort Worth, Texas, the 33-song set list lasted more than three hours and included solo sets by both John and Russell as well as performing material together off “The Union.”
Tonight’s concert reportedly sold out in about four hours. Despite logging on just an hour after tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. Oct. 2, Hayley Graham said she barely managed to grab three for herself and two friends. Graham said John’s greatest-hits album has long been among the favorites of her musical collection. Tonight, she and her friends will be decked out in homemade “sparkly” glasses in honor of John’s penchant for memorably gaudy eyewear.