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29 in 1994. 16 in 1995. 7 in 2009. 31 in 2010. 4 in 2011. 4 in 2012. 234 in total. In 1979, Elton John toured Israel and the USSR with Ray Cooper. [1] The duo proved successful and they performed concerts together a total of 234 times in ten of the years between 1977 and 2012.
Big Picture Tour. (1997–98) On the back of the success of the album, Made in England, Elton John went out on tour to promote it. The 1995 leg of the tour covered fifteen European countries, but strangely missing out John's homeland of the United Kingdom. [ 1][ 2][ 3] John with his band then crossed the Atlantic Ocean for an extensive tour of ...
Raymond Cooper (born 19 September 1947 [1] [2]) is an English musician who has worked as a session and road-tour percussionist.During his career, Cooper has worked and toured with numerous musically diverse bands and artists including Elton John (as a duo and as a member of his band), Harry Nilsson, Billy Joel, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Eric ...
Between 1979 and 2014, John toured Israel and the USSR with Ray Cooper in a total 234 concerts. [7] Between 1994 and 2010, John toured extensively with fellow pianist and musician Billy Joel in the "Face to Face" tours, which became the longest running and most successful concert tandem in pop music history. [ 8 ]
The Elton John Band is the band that backs singer, composer and pianist Elton John on both studio and live recordings. The band has gone through several lineup changes, but Nigel Olsson, Davey Johnstone, and Ray Cooper have been members (albeit not continuously) since 1970, 1971 and 1973, respectively. The various lineups of the band have ...
Billie Jean King sang backing vocals and John slipped "Holiday Inn" in to the 20-song set list, a unique event on this tour. Part-way through this leg of the tour, Ray Cooper fell ill and was forced to miss roughly a dozen shows. Ever the punsmith, John declared that the missing percussionist was "Ray Cooper-ating from surgery."
Face to Face 1995. (1995) Face to Face 1998. (1998) After the huge success of the previous year's Face to Face concerts [1] Billy Joel and Elton John set out on the road again. [2] They only reunited for twelve concerts visiting both the United States [3][4][5] and Canada. They played from California down to Florida covering eight states and ...
While promoting his work for The Lion King soundtrack in September 1994, Elton debuted "Believe" (five months before its release as a single) during the opening night of a concert tour with Ray Cooper in Phoenix, AZ. "Believe" reached No. 15 in the UK and No. 13 in the US, and was the only American hit from the album to reach the top 20.