Billy Joel and Elton John - 2/16/2010

Darcy and I, accompanied by our friends Andrew and Krissy, went the Billy Joel & Elton John concert last night, at HP Pavilion in San Jose. Both of these piano-playing legends produced their first albums before Darcy and I were born, but their music transcends generation.

You may recall my post about seeing Billy Joel a couple years back in Oakland.

They came out singing together, starting with Your Song. See for yourself! Oh, and turn up your computer speakers or put on headphones for the rest of this post.


Here's Elton playing Tiny Dancer, made famous to my generation by it's appearance in the movie 'Almost Famous'


When I was about 9, my parents got me Billy Joel's 'Storm Front' cassette tape for Christmas. I loved the album, but especially loved We Didn't Start the Fire. I studied the lyrics and memorized them. The words are still engrained in my brain 20 years later. Last night, for the second time in my life, I got to sing along with the inventor.


At the end they performed together again. Three of the songs they performed in this final set were:

Uptown Girl:


Candle in the Wind:


They finished with, of course, Piano Man:


They played for over three hours in total, as the concert ended past 11pm. Here is the set list:

1. Elton and Billy Together
1. Your Song
2. Just the Way You Are
3. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
4. My Life
5. Elton's Set
5. Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
6. Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
7. Levon
8. Madman Across the Water
9. Tiny Dancer
10. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
11. Daniel
12. Rocket Man
13. Philadelphia Freedom
14. I'm Still Standing
15. Crocodile Rock
16. Billy's Set
16. Prelude / Angry Young Man
17. Do You Know the Way to San Jose (Dionne Warwick cover)
18. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
19. Allentown
20. Zanzibar
21. Don't Ask Me Why
22. She's Always a Woman
23. Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
24. River Of Dreams
25. We Didn't Start the Fire
26. It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
27. Only the Good Die Young
28. Elton and Billy Together
28. I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
29. Uptown Girl
30. The Bitch is Back
31. You May Be Right
32. Bennie and the Jets
33. Elton and Billy Without Bands
33. Candle in the Wind
34. Do You Know the Way to San Jose (Dionne Warwick cover)
35. Piano Man