i never knew me a better time

wow.

elton john is

amazing.

for almost 3 hours straight,

he played all of our favorite songs.

some with the most beautifully fun variations.

i leaned over & said to marian,

"this is why you come to see live music."

he opened with this

he played this

{he's still got the same incredible drummer, nigel olsson}

i think it was during this song that i told marian

she would remember this for the rest of her life

he also played this 

from his new album with leon russell

{i loved it}

did you hear his four sensational backup singers?

they were there last night.

two of them are stone's 

from sly & the family stone.

other songs he played: 

saturday night's alright for fighting, daniel, levon, rocket man, tiny dancer, philadelphia freedom, goodbye yellow brick road, madman across the water, sorry seems to be the hardest word, sad songs say so much, i guess that's why they call it the blues, crocodile rock, candle in the wind, don't let the sun go down on me, 
bennie & the jets, the bitch is back

then, for an encore, he played my song

marian & i had a really great time

♥

p.s.

do you remember this?

it still makes me cry.