A single man tour

A single man tour

by Elton John

Presentation album	A single man
Beginning of the tour	5th February 1979
End of the tour	April 26, 1979
Total concerts (by continent)	Europe : 60
Concerts in total	60

Elton John Tour Chronology

Elton John and Ray Cooper (1977)	A Single Man Tour (1979)	Elton John and Ray Cooper (1979)

The A Single Man Tour was a European tour that the British musician and composer Elton John undertook to promote his twelfth studio album, A Single Man . During the tour, John performed 60 concerts in Belgium , Denmark , Germany , France , Ireland , the Netherlands , Sweden , Switzerland , Spain and the United Kingdom .

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In 1977 John had announced that he no longer wanted to go on a concert tour. In the same year, however, there were some appearances with the percussion player Ray Cooper , which should be the beginning of a new form of the show for John. The focus was no longer on huge concert halls where he appeared in extravagant costumes with fancy glasses in front of thousands of fans. Instead, it should be comparatively small stages with space for only a few thousand people.

The performance of the performance was also completely different. For the first hour John played his songs alone on the piano, to which the tour name A Single Man was a perfect match. After an hour, Ray Cooper joined him on stage and complemented John's piano playing and singing with a variety of percussion instruments.

In December 1978 John complained that a tour through Europe was actually too boring for him, he would like to perform in Russia. Harvey Goldsmith was one of the organizers of the tour, who then took care of exploring the possibilities of concerts in the Soviet Union. When John's appearance on the Oxford tour, Vladimir Kokonin saw him , he was a representative of the Soviet Ministry of Culture. Soviet leaders wanted to make sure that Western artists fit the party's official line. John's A Single Man Tour fitted into this performance and was ultimately the preparation for his appearances in the Soviet Union later in 1979.

Tour dates

date	city	country	Venue
Europe
5th February 1979	Stockholm		Konserthuset
February 6, 1979
7th February 1979	Copenhagen		Tivoli
February 8, 1979
February 10, 1979	Hamburg		Laeiszhalle
February 11, 1979	The hague		World Forum (The Hague)
February 12, 1979	Rotterdam		De Doelen
February 14, 1979	Amsterdam		Concertgebouw (Amsterdam)
15th February 1979	Mannheim		Mozart Hall
February 16, 1979	Munich		Congress hall in the Deutsches Museum
18th February 1979	Berlin		Congress Hall (Berlin)
19th February 1979	Cologne		Cologne Opera
20th February 1979	Paris		Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
February 21, 1979
February 22, 1979
February 23, 1979
February 24, 1979
February 25, 1979
February 26, 1979	Antwerp		Queen Elisabethzaal
February 27, 1979
March 1, 1979	Dusseldorf		Philips Hall
March 2nd 1979	Wiesbaden		Rhein-Main-Hallen
March 3, 1979	Lausanne		Palais de Beaulieu
March 4th 1979
March 6, 1979	Nice		Theater de verdure de Nice
March 7, 1979
March 9, 1979	Barcelona		Pavello de Joventut de Badalona
March 10, 1979
March 11, 1979
March 11, 1979	Madrid		Pabellon Real Madrid
March 17, 1979	Glasgow		The Apollo (Glasgow)
March 18, 1979
March 19, 1979	Edinburgh		Odeon (Edinburgh)
March 21, 1979	Newcastle		Newcastle City Hall
March 22, 1979
March 23, 1979	Preston		Preston Guild Hall
March 26, 1979	Belfast		Whitla Hall Belfast
March 27, 1979
March 29, 1979	Dublin		National Stadium
March 30, 1979
April 2nd 1979	London		Theater Royal Drury Lane
April 3, 1979
April 4th 1979
April 5th 1979
April 6, 1979
April 7, 1979
April 9, 1979	Brighton		Brighton Dome
April 10, 1979
April 11, 1979	Southampton		Gaumont Theater
April 12, 1979
April 14, 1979	Bristol		Bristol Hippodrome
April 15, 1979
April 17th 1979	Oxford		New Theater Oxford
April 18, 1979	Coventry		Coventry Theater
April 19, 1979	Derby		Assembly Rooms
April 21, 1979	Birmingham		Birmingham Hippodrome
April 22, 1979
April 24, 1979	Manchester		O2 Manchester Apollo
April 25, 1979
April 26, 1979

Lecture list

1. " Your Song "
2. " Sixty Years on "
3. " Daniel "
4. " Take Me to the Pilot "
5. " Rocket Man "
6. " Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me "
7. " Goodbye Yellow Brick Road "
8. " Roy Rodgers "
9. " Candle in the Wind "
10. " Ego "
11. " Where to Now St. Peter? "
12. " He'll Have to Go " ( Jim Reeves )
13. " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " ( Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong )
14. " Funeral for a Friend / Tonight "
15. " Better Off Dead "
16. " I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself "
17. " Idol "
18. " Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word "
19. " Bennie and the Jets "
20. " Crazy Water "
21. " Part-Time Love "
22. " Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting "
23. " Song for Guy "
24. " Pinball Wizard " ( The Who )

The duo of the tour

• Elton John - vocals, piano
• Ray Cooper - percussion

Individual evidence

1. ^ Philip Norman: Elton John. Verlag Harmony Books, New York 1992, ISBN 0-517-58762-9 , p. 365ff.
2. ↑ http://www.eltonography.com/tours/1979.html
3. ↑ http://www.setlist.fm/stats/average-setlist/elton-john-63d6be6f.html?tour=33d69c2d

Web links

• Information page with tour dates