![]() I will certainly remember this concert but NOT for the right reasons.Įveryone who stepped into that stadium lastnight was FAILED & LET DOWN. Then we witnessed the stewards on the pitch chatting to each other, texting, filming Elton John & basically doing everything BUT supervise the crowds. People were entering with rucksacks, large shopping bags, golf umbrellas that could be used as weapons had there been fights etc. May I remind the event organisers/security team of The Manchester Arena riously. In this day and age where terrorism & knife crime is at its worst in the Uk, I would expect more.ALOT more. No personal searches were done & no one was scanned either. Then there was the security.or should I say lack of.? We entered via gate 9, I had a tag put on my bag saying it had been checked. I don’t expect to pay the money we did to see a mega star on his Farewell tour to listen to it like we had to. ![]() If you didn’t know the words to the songs then you wouldn’t know what the hell he was singing because of the poor quality. The speakers in the centre of the stadium were about 1-2 seconds delayed so there was a constant echo. Our night was ruined from the minute the music started. The sound Tech staff should hang their heads in shame. The sound quality was absolutely dreadful. He publicly came out in 1988 and has since been a vocal figure for important social causes such as the AIDS crisis and gay marriage in the UK.Įlton John is an amazing singer but lastnight at Cardiff City Stadium was such a disappointment. Outside of music, Elton has been a important figure for LGBT rights around the world. It spawned the hit single ‘Your Song’ and landed the album at number 4 and 5 on the US charts respectively.ġ972’s ‘Honky Chateau’ became Elton’s first number one album and would be followed by 6 more consecutively, most famously ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ which stayed at the top spot for two months. The release of Elton’s self-titled second album saw him take the first leap towards stardom. With Bernie writing the lyrics and Elton the music (a tried and tested method that still works today), the duo began writing popular works for other artists such as ‘LuLu’ before beginning on Elton’s solo material. The new couple helped Elton secure a job as a pub pianist where he worked until he formed a now legendary partnership with Bernie Taupin in 1967, following an advert in the NME. ![]() His musical talents were clear from an early age, taking up the piano aged 3 and getting a scholarship to the Royal Academy of music at 11.Īfter a turbulent relationship with Elton’s father, who expressed very little interest in the young musician, Elton’s mother divorced and remarried. ![]() Born in 1947 as Reginald Kenneth Dwight, Elton experienced a fairly restrictive childhood growing up in Middlesex. ![]()
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