Face to Face 2010

In early February 2010, Elton John and Billy Joel set out on another leg of their concert series Face to Face.^[1] Most of these shows had been rescheduled from the year before when John had contracted E. coli, forcing the pair to cancel the concerts planned for the fall of 2009. Joel had also fallen unwell at the time of the gigs the previous year.^{[citation needed]}

Face to Face 2010

National tour by Elton John and Billy Joel
Location	U.S., North America
Start date	3 February 2010 (2010-02-03)
End date	11 March 2010 (2010-03-11)
Legs	1
No. of shows	12
Elton John tour chronology Face to Face 2009 (2009) Face to Face 2010 (2010) 2010 European Tour (2010) Billy Joel tour chronology Face to Face 2009 (2009) Face to Face 2010 (2010) Billy Joel in Concert (2014–26)

Despite several outlets reporting four summer concerts in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Boston, Joel denied rumours in the trade press announcing that he cancelled a summer 2010 leg of the tour, claiming that those concerts were never booked in the first place and that he intended to take the year off from performing and music.^[2] Joel told Rolling Stone magazine: "We'll probably pick it up again. It's always fun playing with him."

Joel stated in 2012 that he would no longer tour with Elton because it restrained his setlists.^[3][4]

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Tickets Sold/Available	Box Office
North America
3 February 2010	Seattle	United States	KeyArena	27,605 / 27,605 (100%)	$3,779,949
6 February 2010
10 February 2010	Portland		Rose Garden	15,440 / 15,440 (100%)	$1,879,099
13 February 2010	Oakland		Oracle Arena	16,902 / 16,902 (100%)	$2,045,887
16 February 2010	San Jose		HP Pavilion at San Jose	15,909 / 15,909 (100%)	$1,861,681
19 February 2010	Salt Lake City		EnergySolutions Arena	16,057 / 16,057 (100%)	$1,729,539
22 February 2010	Denver		Pepsi Center	15,470 / 15,470 (100%)	$1,790,533
25 February 2010	Oklahoma City		Oklahoma City Arena	12,668 / 12,668 (100%)	$1,378,170
27 February 2010	Kansas City		Sprint Center	17,682 / 17,682 (100%)	$2,112,261
3 March 2010	Wichita		Intrust Bank Arena	14,029 / 14,029 (100%)	$1,706,428
9 March 2010	Buffalo		HSBC Arena	17,691 / 17,691 (100%)	$1,824,428
11 March 2010	Albany		Times Union Center	13,874 / 13,874 (100%)	$1,623,929

Cancellations and rescheduled shows

7 July 2010	Chicago	Wrigley Field	Cancelled[5]
14 July 2010	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	PNC Park	Cancelled[6]
21 July 2010	Boston, Massachusetts	Fenway Park	Cancelled[6]
24 July 2010	Boston, Massachusetts	Fenway Park	Cancelled[6]

Setlist

Standard setlist

Elton John & Billy Joel & Bands

1. Your Song
2. Just the Way You Are
3. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
4. My Life

Elton John & Band

1. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
2. Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
3. Levon
4. Madman Across the Water
5. Tiny Dancer
6. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
7. Daniel
8. Rocket Man
9. Philadelphia Freedom
10. I'm Still Standing
11. Crocodile Rock

Billy Joel & Band

1. Prelude/Angry Young Man
2. Movin' Out
3. Allentown
4. Zanzibar
5. Don't Ask Me Why
6. She's Always a Woman
7. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
8. River of Dreams
9. We Didn't Start the Fire
10. It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
11. Only the Good Die Young

Elton John & Billy Joel & Bands

1. I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
2. Uptown Girl
3. The Bitch is Back
4. You May Be Right
5. Bennie and the Jets
6. Candle in the Wind
7. Piano Man