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• Elton John and Billy Joel have been rumored to have had a falling out in 2011, with John criticizing Joel's are living set and collection of rehab facilities.
• Despite the rumors, Joel authorized John's vital remarks as tricky love and noted that John tends to shoot from the hip in interviews.
• The two piano males had a a hit live performance partnership called Face to Face, with eight world excursions between 1994 and 2010, grossing hundreds of thousands of greenbacks.

Elton John and Billy Joel are rock's two most renowned piano males of the closing half-century. Elton has nine US No. 1 hits to his identify. Joel has three. Combined, they've placed 113 songs on the Billboard Hot 100.

Between 1994 and 2010, the 2 stars joined forces on 8 world tours dubbed Face to Face. By 2011, alternatively, it was in all places. Billy Joel and Elton John were rumored to have had a falling out, despite the fact that they later patched things up.

Billy Joel And Elton John Were Said To Have Had A Falling Out

For a time, rumors circulated that Billy Joel and Elton John had a falling out.

In 2011, a year after reported live performance cancelations between the 2 icons, Elton made some important remarks in regards to the "Allentown" singer, who struggled with alcohol and hadn't made a studio album since 1993's River of Dreams.

John criticized Joel's stagnant live set and number of rehab amenities, which the "Tiny Dancer" singer deemed "rehab light."

Despite talk of a rift between the two legends, Joel (who's rolled with many punches in his five-decade-plus-year occupation) accredited John's comments as tough love. He notes that John (whose public rows with Madonna and George Michael have been tabloid fodder) has a history of shooting from the hip in interviews.

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Though the 2 piano males ended their Face to Face concert series after the 2010 excursion, they never ruled out a long run joint live look.

In 2014, Joel began a per 30 days residency at New York's Madison Square Garden. He earned $One hundred fifty million throughout the primary 5 years of the residency, which leads to July 2024.

In 2018, John started his Farewell Yellow Brick Road excursion, which spanned 80 nations and 5 years. By the time Elton wrapped the excursion on July 8, 2023, it had grossed $939.1 million.

Rocket Man Vs Piano Man

Elton John (born March 25, 1947, London) and Billy Joel (born May 9, 1949, New York) both got their starts within the mid-Sixties.

John (then referred to as Reginald Dwight) first carried out as a pianist within the R&B/beat crew Bluesology. Joel (at 14) played un-credited piano in the back of rock's first bad girls, the Shangri-Las, on their two large hits "Leader of the Pack" and "Remember (Walkin' In the Sand)."

Both emerged as piano-playing singers on the break of day of the Seventies, just as a new breed of solo acoustic singer/songwriters (James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Gordon Lightfoot) challenged the prevailing usual of the electrified rock band.

Elton John had his first transatlantic hit with "Your Song," a mushy love-letter ballad. His next singles ("Tiny Dancer," "Levon") stay anthems of FM radio. A flood of hits adopted his 5th studio album, Honky Château, beginning with the 1972 singles "Rocket Man" and "Crocodile Rock" (hit first No. 1).

John ruled the charts along with his 1973–seventy five albums Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Caribou, and Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. His largest hits from the length come with "Daniel," "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting," "Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me," "Philadelphia Freedom," "Bennie and the Jets," and "Someone Saved My Life Tonight." At one point, Elton was tired of his saturation of American radio.

In 1975, Elton starred in the movie adaptation of the Who's rock opera Tommy.

After a late-'70s industrial stoop, John recovered with a run of '80s hits, including "Blue Eyes," "I'm Still Standing," "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues," "Sad Songs," and "Sacrifice." In 1982, Elton paid tribute to his late friend John Lennon within the emotional ballad "Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)."

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Billy Joel burned through some low-profile psychedelic rock bands (The Hassles, Attila) before he introduced his solo career in 1971 with Cold Spring Harbor. His next 3 albums contained songs that later become well-liked, including "New York State of Mind," "Say Goodbye to Hollywood," and his signature "Piano Man."

Joel shot to fame along with his 1977 album The Stranger and the hits "Anthony's Song (Moving Out)," "Just the Way You Are," and "She's Always a Woman." His next albums 52nd Street and Glass Houses sprayed radio playlists with "Big Shot," "My Life," "You May Be Right," and "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me."

After his experimental art-pop album The Nylon Curtain (best known for the working class anthem "Allentown" and the Vietnam War lament "Goodnight Saigon"), Joel hit his commercial peak with 1983's An Innocent Man, a number of pre-Beatles-style retro pop, together with doo-wop ("The Longest Time"), Motown ("Tell Her About It"), '50s boogie ("Keeping the Faith"), and the Four Seasons tribute "Uptown Girl."

Joel made three extra pop-rock albums, including 1989's mega-seller Storm Front, but considering classical music after 1993.

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Elton And Billy Joel Were A Dynamic Concert Duo

Elton John and Billy Joel joined compelled in 1994 with their Face to Face excursion, a series of joint live shows. Each show started with three duet numbers, followed by way of separate sets via John and Joel and a joint encore.

They traded make a selection numbers in their solo units. On maximum nights, Elton carried out "New York State of Mind" and Billy performed "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road." The 1994 tour grossed $48.4 million.

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Joel and John teamed for seven next Face to Face tours between 1995 and 2010. They performed their final display together on March 11, 2010, at the Times Union Center in Albany, NY, where they grossed $1.6 million.

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