Sir Elton John played (perhaps) his last ever UK gig to a crazily large crowd and was joined on stage by the likes of Brandon Flowers from the Killers and Rina Sawayama.Ĭat Stevens played the coveted Sunday afternoon legends slot on the Pyramid Stage and was followed by Blondie. Lizzo brought the party vibes, dancing around while playing her flute in between belting out pop hits including Juice. LA rockers Guns N' Roses shook up the farm, firstly by turning up on time (for once) and then by rolling back the years with guitar hero hits, such as Sweet Child O' Mine. The Arctic Monkeys looked good on the dancefloor as they headlined the Pyramid Stage on Friday night.Ī mystery band on the bill called the ChurnUps were revealed as Foo Fighters, with Beatle Sir Paul McCartney watching on from the wings. Here are some of the stand-out acts from a Glastonbury Festival that certainly didn't disappoint: It’s been waiting 46 years for a moment, and people might want to hear the other 99 percent of it.Yui Mok/PA Wire Copyright: Yui Mok/PA Wire Maybe he can just add “Where’s the Shoorah?” into the set. That’s a long, long time of singing “long, long time” in one concert. It’s not like Dua Lipa is going to travel around the world with him to sing it every night, and he’s already doing “Rocket Man” in the set. The show is packed with hit songs, and he’s probably tempted to play “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)” in some way, but it’ll be tough. 19 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. John has been off the road since March 2020 thanks to the pandemic and a recent hip-replacement surgery, but he’s due to resume his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour on Jan. The sampled portion comes just 10 seconds into it.) (Check out the original recording of the song above if you care to make the comparison. It also shifts it into B-flat minor from E-flat major. It’s also the least obvious sample on “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix).” The moment doesn’t come until the three-minute mark when you hear a gospel choir sing “Shoorah Shoorah.” As this fascinating video explains, “Cold Heart” takes the tempo of the sample up to 130 bpm from 116 bpm. Then there’s “Where’s the Shoorah?” The super deep cut is buried on the fourth side of 1976’s Blue Moves and has never been played live or received any sort of recognition until right now. The appearance of Dua Lipa is the most obvious difference, but it also mashes together four of his old songs: “Rocket Man,” “Sacrifice,” “Kiss the Bride,” and “Where’s the Shoorah?” The first two songs were worldwide hit singles that even many casual fans will recognize, while “Kiss the Bride” was a minor hit from his 1983 comeback LP, Too Low For Zero. “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)” is, of course, quite different than his other singles from the past two decades. He’s put out a ton of music since then, a lot of it excellent, but none of it generated even a fraction of this level of interest. The song is John’s biggest American hit since “Candle in the Wind 1997” and his first appearance on the Hot 100 since “Somebody Out of the Blue” from the Road to El Dorado soundtrack peaked at Number 49 in 2000. We’re talking about Elton John and his comeback song “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix),” which features Dua Lipa and appears on his new LP, The Lockdown Sessions. But the artist at Number Seven isn’t just roughly five decades older than all the rest, he also has more hits than all the rest of them put together. The artists making up the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 right now are all familiar names like Adele, Ed Sheeran, Lil Nas X, Justin Bieber, and Doja Cat.
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