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Sleeping with the Past Tour

1989–90 concert tour by Elton John From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Sleeping with the Past Tour was a worldwide concert tour by English musician and composer Elton John, in support of his 22nd studio album, Sleeping with the Past. The tour included a total of three legs (in North America and Oceania) and a total of 74 shows.

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Elton John's album, Sleeping with the Past, received lukewarm reviews when the album was released in 1989.

Despite the critical judgment of the album, it became his highest-selling studio album in the United Kingdom, being certified 3× Platinum and spawned his first solo number-one hit in his home country.

During many of these shows, John performed three or four songs from Sleeping with the Past — an unusual move since the new album would not be released until August, and thus audiences were hearing this material for the first time. Also new to the production was a two-minute show intro, conceived and recorded by Davey Johnstone and Guy Babylon, which played as the band walked out on to the stage, using an alternate arrangement of "Bennie and the Jets" to introduce the show's first song. This technique would be used on several subsequent tours and change depending on what song was chosen as the set opener.

On 18 October 1989 in New Haven, Connecticut, he rushed through his performance rarely talking to the audience. Midway through his concert, he announced he would not perform material from the new album because MCA was not promoting it.[1]

By the time this final leg of the tour would end, John and his band, now with Charlie Morgan on drums, had been on the road almost constantly for two full years. John played 20 dates in six cities in Australia, beginning at the Entertainment Centre in Perth on 27 January 1990, and concluding three weeks later with seven nights at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.

Next came shows in New Zealand on 28 February and 3 March before the tour moved on to America, where he did three shows at the Mark G. Etess Arena in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on 18–20 May. The set list at these US shows featured the premiere of "Made for Me", one of four new songs he had recorded for his then-upcoming box set, To Be Continued...

Two months later, John checked himself in to a Chicago-area hospital for addiction treatment and would not tour again for two years.

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1989 setlists

Providence Civic Center, Providence RI 7/29/1989
  1. Bennie and the Jets
  2. Island Girl
  3. Harmony
  4. Tiny Dancer
  5. Sleeping with the Past
  6. The Bitch Is Back/Brown Sugar
  7. I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
  8. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters Parts 1 & 2
  9. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
  10. Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
  11. Daniel
  12. Candle in the Wind
  13. Sacrifice
  14. Blue Eyes
  15. Philadelphia Freedom
  16. Burn Down the Mission
  17. Come Down in Time
  18. Healing Hands
  19. Levon
  20. Stones Throw From Hurtin'
  21. Kiss The Bride
  22. Sad Songs (Say So Much)
  23. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
  24. I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That
  25. Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
  26. I'm Still Standing
  27. Rocket Man

1990 setlists

Standard setlist
  1. Bennie and the Jets
  2. Tiny Dancer
  3. The Bitch Is Back
  4. Brown Sugar
  5. I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
  6. Made for Me
  7. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters Parts 1 & 2
  8. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
  9. Your Song
  10. Daniel
  11. Sacrifice
  12. Candle in the Wind
  13. Philadelphia Freedom
  14. Healing Hands
  15. Sad Songs (Say So Much)
  16. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
  17. I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That
  18. I’m Still Standing
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Personnel

  • Elton John – Roland RD-1000 digital piano and lead vocals
  • Davey Johnstone – guitars
  • Romeo Williams – bass
  • Fred Mandel – keyboards/guitar
  • Guy Babylon – keyboards
  • Jonathan Moffett – drums (North American leg)
  • Charlie Morgan – drums (Oceania and second North American leg)
  • Mortonette Jenkins – backing vocals
  • Marlena Jeter – backing vocals
  • Natalie Jackson – backing vocals

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