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Elton John postpones Bay Area concert with Billy Joel
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Elton John in Zurich last month. (AP Photo/Keystone, Walter Bieri)
Legendary pop diva Elton John has had to postpone the Oakland stop of Face 2 Face - his joint concert tour with Billy Joel - scheduled for this Saturday, November 14. This follows similar news for concerts scheduled for Portland and Seattle earlier this month.
In an announcement just jointly released by music promoter Live Nation and the ORACLE arena, Sir Elton, 62, is acting under medical advice to curtail all activities until he fully recovers from a combination of e-coli bacterial infection and influenza. John was discharged from King Edward VII Hospital on November 6 and the illnes forced the cancellation of all his UK dates. He fully intended to meet his Bay Area engagements. No announcement has been made about the San Jose concert scheduled just three days after the now-postponed Oakland date.
The "Rocket Man" and the "Innocent Man" have been touring major arena dates throughout the year. Stops immediately following the Bay Area dates and possiblibly also in jeopardy include Salt Lake City, Denver, Oklahoma City, Little Rock and Kansas City before swinging back to the East in December. There are suggestion that the tour could extend well into 2010. Much rescheduling will be necessary to forestall a high volume of ticket refunds.
The pair have worked together before and, until the health problems - which have also touched the 60-year-old Joel during the tour - seemed to be swimming successfully against the tide of a slump in the music industry and overall economic woes. There are ten Grammy Awards, eleven Number One albums and Number One pop singles in their collective résumés. John has also expanded, with varying degrees of success, into the world of animated film and Broaway musicals (Lestat, Aida, The Lion King). While Joel has not composed for the stage, his songbook was represented on Broadway in Twyla Tharp's Movin' Out.
According to the press release, all patrons who have purchased tickets for the concert on Saturday, November 14th at the ORACLE Arena are being asked to hold on to their tickets until more information is available regarding the proposed rescheduled engagement.
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