Sir Elton John's Still Got It!

WOW! i dont know what else to say...Sir Elton John at Rexall Place was the most amazing thing i have ever seen in my life, no exagerration. It was phenominal! I have to admit I was a little bit nervous going in that he was going to play all his new stuff, i hadn't heard it yet and i just assumed it couldn't be as good as his older classics. I was incorrect. His new album The Captain and The Kid,is undeniably enchanting from the first song to the last. He opened the show, right on time i might add, with Funeral For a Friend, he played so passionately that the entire crowd was hooked from the moment he walked on stage untill he walked off about 2 and a half hours later. He played everything from his 70's classics - Benny and The Jets, Tiny Dancer,Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word, Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me (and many more) to his captivating new singles such as - Postcards From Richard Nixon, Tinderbox, Blues Never Fade Away, The Bridge, and of course The Captain and The Kid. The lighting was something to be seen in itself, there were multicolored spotlights dancing across the stage, it was very amusing. Near the end of the concert he played three really upbeat songs in a row The Bitch is Back, Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting), and much to Lanny's fancy we'll say, Crocodile Rock, the entire sold out crowd was on their feet with their eyes glued on the stage. He ended the night with my all time favorite Your Song which he dedicated to Canada, the country he loves so much. And I will admit, his live version of Your Song blew Ewan MacGregor's performance of the song (from Moulin Rouge!) out of the water. Last night truly was an experience of a fucking lifetime.

Which leads me to my Album of the Month, Elton John's The Captain And The Kid,

featuring my Song of the Month

Blues Never Fade Away
Music by Elton John

Lyrics by Bernie Taupin

Available on the album The Captain And The Kid

He wasn't famous but I sure did love him

I've got his picture in a little frame

He lost his life to a big disease before it even had a name

But there's so many more and I've lost count

The hows and whys aren't important now

All that matters is they came around

And brightened up our lives

She was twenty one with her life ahead

You don't need to know her name

She breathed her last on the cold stone floor of a Hollywood arcade

But fate's right hand isn't always just

Puts a lot of pressure on your faith and trust

She was just a little girl ain't that enough

To rage against the day

chorus:

And how did we get so lucky?

Targets on the rifle range

Who makes the call and who gets to choose?

Who gets to win and who gets to lose?

It's like a rolling dice in the belly of the blues

And blues never fade away

Hey hey the colors run when the rain falls

But blues never fade away

He shone so bright with a lust for life

Like the Sun King that he was

His passions hung upon his walls and were printed onto cloth

And for reasons I never understood

About the choices made between the bad and good

I've tried to figure out but

The pain never goes away

[repeat chorus]

And there's marble markers and little white crosses

Along the beaten path

And I've spread their ashes on the wind

And I miss John Lennon's laugh

[repeat chorus]

Liz, out.