Billy Joel and Elton John’s “Face 2 Face Tour” coming to Tulsa
Pop music powerhouses Billy Joel and Elton John are reuniting next spring for their “Face 2 Face Tour,” and they’re bringing their joint tour March 17 to Tulsa’s BOK Center.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. Ticket prices are $179, $99, and $53.50
Tickets will be available online at www.bokcenter.com, by phone at (866) 7BOKCTR and at area Reasor’s and Homeland stores and the Arby’s Box Office.
Joel and John represent the most successful and longest-running concert pairing in pop history. They will reunite and launch their “Face 2 Face Tour” March 2 in Jacksonville, Fla., according to a news release.
They will open the concert with a series of duets, playing twin pianos and trading vocals. Each artist then will perform a set with his own band. A grand finale brings the two superstars and their supporting musicians back together for a closing encore. This includes some of both their greatest hits along with an unpredictable selection of rock ‘n’ roll classics.
“The great thing about performing with Elton is that he is such a good piano player and that makes me have to dig deep to keep up with him, not to mention I’ve got the best seat in the house - only one piano away from Elton John!” Joel said in the release.
“I love touring with Billy. I have the greatest respect for him and we’re such good friends,” John said in the release.
Joel and John played the first date of their co-headlining “Face 2 Face Tour” on July 8, 1994, at the 62,000-capacity Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. That Veterans Stadium concert began a run of 21 sold-out performances in 13 cities and established a winning formula for all future “Face 2 Face” concerts. The duo last toured together in 2003.
Perhaps the high point of that 1994 maiden voyage was the series of five concerts at 75,000-capacity Giants Stadium in New Jersey. In his review of the July 22 performance, Neil Strauss of the New York Times wrote: “Musically, the two gifted, idiosyncratic artists exist in the nether world between pop and rock, where Broadway show tunes, classical compositions, ragtime, gospel and rock ‘n’ roll mingle freely.”
The 1994 “Face 2 Face Tour” played its final concert Aug. 20 at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Fla. It had become one of the 10 biggest U.S. tours of all time. In March and April 1995, the “Face 2 Face Tour” returned for 12 encore performances at some of the country’s largest stadiums.
Three years later, the tour that conquered North America took Europe, Japan and Australia by storm with a total of 30 performances.
John and Joel last toured together in 2003 with 24 sellouts. Billboard has called the pairing “the most successful touring package of all time.”
-BAM
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