It’s been waiting 46 years for a moment, and people might want to hear the other 99 percent of it. 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. Creating a disco tune for the ages, the song crafts together elements of 1972’s Rocket Man and. 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. Elton John is ready to hit the dancefloor with his new remix Cold Heart. 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.
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