Elton John 2004 Tour

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Elton John 2004 Tour
Tour by Elton John
LocationNorth America • Europe • Asia
Start date8 March 2004
End date23 September 2004
Legs9
No. of shows36
Elton John concert chronology

The 2004 Tour was a concert tour by Elton John that took place in 2004 covering three continents, fourteen countries and twenty-nine cities. [1]

Contents

Background

Elton John and his band set out on tour on 13 February 2004. [2] Elton held the second ever residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace while Céline Dion was continuing her A New Day... residency. The show was called the Red Piano because of the prominent red piano that John played on stage. [3] The idea for the show originated in 2004 by John and David LaChapelle. The Red Piano was originally scheduled to be 75 shows over three years. John ended his residency at the Colosseum on 22 April 2009, and eventually performed two-hundred and forty-three shows. [4]

John and the band then went on to tour the United States and John then went in to perform several shows in Europe after which he went on to tour Europe with rest of his band.

John then performed five shows with the Royal Academy of Music in the United Kingdom [5] after which he traveled to the United States to perform further five shows at Radio City Music Hall with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

John and the band then went to perform their first show in Gibraltar [6] and went on to perform in China, [7] South Korea [8] and Taiwan. [9]

Set list

Standard North American set list
  1. "Bennie and the Jets"
  2. "The Bitch Is Back"
  3. "Levon"
  4. "Daniel"
  5. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
  6. "Ballad of the Boy in the Red Shoes"
  7. "Philadelphia Freedom"
  8. "Rocket Man"
  9. "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues"
  10. "I Want Love"
  11. "Tiny Dancer"
  12. "Take Me to the Pilot"
  13. "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"
  14. "Nikita"
  15. "Original Sin"
  16. "Candle in the Wind"
  17. "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"
  18. "Believe"
  19. "All the Girls Love Alice"
  20. "I'm Still Standing"
  21. "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting"
  22. "Crocodile Rock"
  23. "Pinball Wizard"
  24. "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
  25. "Your Song"
Standard solo set list
  1. "Your Song"
  2. "The Greatest Discovery"
  3. "Border Song"
  4. "I Need You to Turn To"
  5. "The One"
  6. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
  7. "Ballad of the Boy in the Red Shoes"
  8. "Honky Cat"
  9. "Daniel"
  10. "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters"
  11. "Rocket Man"
  12. "I'm Still Standing"
  13. "Ticking"
  14. "Tiny Dancer"
  15. "Blue Eyes"
  16. "Sacrifice"
  17. "Philadelphia Freedom"
  18. "Nikita"
  19. "Candle in the Wind"
  20. "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"
  21. "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues"
  22. "Original Sin"
  23. "Carla/Etude"
  24. "Tonight"
  25. "Bennie and the Jets"
  26. "Crocodile Rock"
  27. "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
Royal Academy set list
  1. "Sixty Years On"
  2. "The Greatest Discovery"
  3. "I Need You to Turn To"
  4. "Border Song"
  5. "The King Must Die"
  6. "Burn Down the Mission"
  7. "Believe"
  8. "Come Down in Time"
  9. "Tell Me When the Whistle Blows"
  10. "Tiny Dancer"
  11. "Madman Across the Water"
  12. "Holiday Inn"
  13. "Levon"
  14. "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"
  15. "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore"
  16. "Philadelphia Freedom"
  17. "Have Mercy on the Criminal"
  18. "Carla/Etude"
  19. "Tonight"
  20. "Take Me to the Pilot"
  21. "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting"
  22. "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
  23. "Your Song"
  24. "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting"
Royal Orchestra set list
  1. "Sixty Years On"
  2. "The Greatest Discovery"
  3. "I Need You to Turn To"
  4. "Border Song"
  5. "The King Must Die"
  6. "Burn Down the Mission"
  7. "Believe"
  8. "Come Down in Time"
  9. "Tell Me When the Whistle Blows"
  10. "Tiny Dancer"
  11. "Madman Across the Water"
  12. "Holiday Inn"
  13. "Levon"
  14. "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"
  15. "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore"
  16. "Freaks in Love"
  17. "Philadelphia Freedom"
  18. "Have Mercy on the Criminal"
  19. "Carla/Etude"
  20. "Tonight"
  21. "Take Me to the Pilot"
  22. "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting"
  23. "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
  24. "Your Song"

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenueTickets sold / availableRevenue
North America
8 March 2004 [A] Kamloops Canada Sport Mart Place
16 April 2004 Reading United States Sovereign Center 8,675 / 8,675$755,690
17 April 2004 Amherst William D. Mullins Memorial Center 7,613 / 9,266$518,331
23 April 2004 Manchester Verizon Wireless Arena 10,966 / 10,966$905,237
24 April 2004 Portland Cumberland County Civic Center 8,341 / 8,341$665,825
27 April 2004 Bridgeport Arena at Harbor Yard 18,508 / 18,508$1,692,749
28 April 2004
Europe
26 May 2004 [A] Palermo Italy Velodromo Paolo Borsellino
28 May 2004 [A] Bayonne France Arene de Bayonne
30 May 2004 [A] Nicosia Cyprus Davila Moat
1 June 2004 [A] Karlstad Sweden Löfbergs Lila Arena
3 June 2004 [A] Stavanger Norway Gamle Stavanger Stadion
5 June 2004 [A] Langesund Krogshavn
6 June 2004 [A] Aalborg Denmark Kongress Kultur Center
8 June 2004 [A] Genova ItalyPiazza Del Mare
9 June 2004 [A] Reggio Calabria Stadio Oreste Granillo
11 June 2004 Bristol England Ashton Gate Stadium 21,840 / 21,840$1,944,569
16 June 2004 Suffolk Portman Road 22,746 / 22,746$2,207,065
18 June 2004 Aberdeen Scotland Pittodrie Stadium
20 June 2004 Kent England The Hop Farm Country Park
28 June 2004 [B] Birmingham National Exhibition Centre
29 June 2004 [B]
1 July 2004 [B] London Wembley Arena
3 July 2004 [B]
4 July 2004 [B] Royal Albert Hall
North America
13 July 2004 [C] New York City United States Radio City Music Hall 28,984 / 28,984$5,290,740
14 July 2004 [C]
15 July 2004 [C]
17 July 2004 [C]
18 July 2004 [C]
Europe
10 September 2004 Gibraltar Gibraltar Victoria Stadium
Asia
14 September 2004 Hong Kong Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre 7,713 / 7,926$954,943
17 September 2004 Seoul South Korea Seoul Olympics Main Stadium
19 September 2004 Shanghai China Grand Stage 11,194 / 14,000$1,220,495
21 September 2004
23 September 2004 Taipei Taiwan Chung Shan Football Stadium9,570 / 10,000$697,518
Festivals and other miscellaneous performances

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