The crowd roared as the “Cold Heart” beat kicked in and Elton - clad in a sparkling Dodgers-inspired robe that intentionally evoked a similar outfit he’d worn on the same stage 47 years earlier - greeted Dua, who sashayed onstage in a sleek black gown, her long brown hair a waterfall-like shimmer. Those shows represented not only the final North American dates of the 75-year-old icon’s final tour, but also a sort of homecoming for his superstardom: Elton’s ascent truly began with his legendary 1970 show at the city’s 500-capacity Troubadour club and, he has said, climaxed with his two concerts at Dodger Stadium five years later. 20, at the last of Elton’s three concerts at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
We had both been performing it across the world separately, waiting for the moment we could do so together.” “But there’s also something magical about the same song being played in the same city on the same night with completely different crowds and bringing such a good energy. “Our touring schedules were like ships in the night - we kept missing each other,” Dua says in her crisp London accent. Nor had they performed the song together or even seen each other’s tours. Yet they hadn’t even been in the studio at the same time when their vocals for “Cold Heart” were recorded.
They’d met in person for the first time when they performed together at the 2021 Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards viewing party, and quickly became close. It was the 200-somethingth show of his 330-ish date “ Farewell Yellow Brick Road” final tour, which launched a planned three-year run in September 2018 but is likely to go on for nearly double that time, concluding in Europe next summer (this particular show had been originally scheduled for April of 2020).Īnd even though they didn’t see each other that night, the two friends - Elton and Dua, no need for surnames here - were virtually waving to each other across the East River. Just five miles away, at more or less the same time, the real Elton was playing “Cold Heart” too, at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, for a crowd enjoying an equivalent sense of pandemic-delayed renewal and release. On that night at Madison Square Garden, Dua and her tireless troupe of dancers sat on a platform toward the front of the stage, singing with their arms around each other while a video of Elton performing the song filled the screen behind them. 1 on multiple charts across the globe, a multigenerational feat that has earned the pair Variety’s 2022 Hitmakers of the Year honor. Yet an emotional peak of the show came with a song that was simultaneously new and decades old: “Cold Heart,” her duet with Elton John that blended four of his songs - most prominently his 1972 smash “Rocket Man” and 1989’s “Sacrifice.” The inventive song vaulted to No.
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