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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ]
Box office. $939.1 million. Elton John concert chronology. Wonderful Crazy Night Tour (2016–18) Farewell Yellow Brick Road (2018–23) Farewell Yellow Brick Road was the forty-ninth concert tour by English musician Elton John. It began in Allentown, Pennsylvania, US, on 8 September 2018, and ended in Stockholm, Sweden, on 8 July 2023.
Live from Moscow 1979 is a live album by English musician Elton John released in April 2019. It was recorded during John's May 1979 tour of the Soviet Union, when he played a series of shows in Leningrad and Moscow accompanied by percussionist Ray Cooper. The live recordings were initially broadcast by BBC Radio 1 and were long available on ...
English rock singer Elton John played eight concerts in the Soviet Union between 21 and 28 May 1979. [1] The two-city tour was a significant event amid Cold War tensions between the USSR and the West, [2] and a sign of the Communist authorities' emerging tolerance towards Western popular culture. [3] The shows were among the first performed in ...
Ever the punsmith, John declared that the missing percussionist was "Ray Cooper-ating from surgery." The tour concluded in mid-August with a record-breaking seven sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden. For these shows, John and the band shared the stage with the New York Community Choir and performed encores with Kiki Dee, Alice Cooper and ...