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Elton John and band performed in Rio de Janeiro on January 19, 2009
Thursday, January 22 2009

Fan report by Andre Percia.

Elton performed two memorable concerts in Brazil with a high level of audience participation, who sang on the top of their lungs all the Elton John hits. In São Paulo there was some rain before the concert started and some doing “Madman Across The Water”, but the concert was very nice. However in Rio de Janeiro, everybody who attend both concerts noted that Elton was very much more energetic, making solos, introductions and increasing the length of some songs which he did not make in São Paulo, and the public responded very warmly.

Everyone who I talked with after the concert, some of them are not even Elton John fans, said that that was one of the if not the best concert they attended. And people like Police, Madonna and others are always around here. In Rio, Elton even played chords from “Girl From Ipanema” and another Tom Jobim songs and, at the end, he said that he and the band were really loving to play in Brazil.

I have seen hundreds of hours of Elton Live on DVDs, seven live concerts and the two he made in Brazil in 1995, and the concert in Rio on January 19, 2009 was one of the best he ever did! I have written to his website strongly encouraging him to play "Skyline Pigeon" which is his most famous song here in BRazil due to the fact that is was attached on a soap opera and maybe by coincidence he did that, and solo!

Following is the complete set list of the Rio de Janeiro show on January 19, 2009:

  • Funeral for a Friend
  • Love Lies Bleeding
  • The Bitch is Back
  • Madman Across the Water
  • Tiny Dancer
  • Levon
  • Believe
  • Take Me to the Pilot
  • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
  • Daniel
  • Rocket Man
  • Honky Cat
  • Sacrifice
  • Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
  • All the Girls Love Alice
  • I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues
  • Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
  • Candle in the Wind
  • Bennie and the Jets
  • Sad Songs (Say So Much)
  • Philadelphia Freedom
  • I'm Still Standing
  • Crocodile Rock
  • Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)

  • Skyline Pigeon
  • Your Song

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