I wish she would add Dark Paradise, Off To The Races and This is What Makes Us Girls, and she can remove Blue Velvet and Burning Desire
and Body Electric should b performed like the album version with that heavy drums and stuff, the version she's performing is taking away the darkness of the song IMO !!
Tomorrow she will play at the legendary l' Olympia in Paris, Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel played one of their last concerts there.
Unter den französischen (und belgischen) Künstlern, die in diesem Saal Konzerte gaben, verdienen die folgenden ganz besondere Beachtung: Charles Aznavour, Adamo, Barbara, Gilbert Bécaud, Lucienne Boyer, Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens, Dalida, Jacques Dutronc, Léo Ferré, Claude François, France Gall, Garou, Juliette Gréco, Johnny Hallyday, Françoise Hardy, Patricia Kaas, Helmut Lotti, Enrico Macias, Mireille Mathieu, Édith Piaf, Axelle Red, Renaud, Tino Rossi, Jean Sablon, Émilie Simon, Alan Stivell, Anne Sylvestre, Charles Trenet, Sylvie Vartan und Grégory Lemarchal, der sein erstes Live-Album nach der Halle benannte.
Das Olympia markierte darüber hinaus für franko-kanadische Sänger eine Stufe ihrer Erfolgsleiter, darunter Robert Charlebois, Monique Leyrac, Céline Dion, Daniel Lavoie und Roch Voisine.
Auch Sänger und Musiker aus dem Maghreb und der arabischen Welt kamen ins Olympia: Oum Kalthoum und Fairuz.
Weitere Künstler kamen aus den Vereinigten Staaten, Kanada, Großbritannien und dem Rest der Welt. Die Konzerte dieser internationalen Stars schrieben hier Musikgeschichte:Louis Armstrong, David Bowie, James Brown, Jeff Buckley, Ray Charles, Petula Clark, Connie Francis, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan, Maria Farantouri, Judy Garland, Bill Haley (sein 1958er Konzert ist inzwischen auf CD erschienen), Jimi Hendrix, Julio Iglesias, Lili Ivanova, Madonna, Mahalia Jackson, Quincy Jones, Janis Joplin, Mary Roos, Lokua Kanza, Diana Krall, Frédérik Mey, Scorpions, Herman van Veen, Van Morrison, Olivera Katarina, Nana Mouskouri, Tereza Kesovija, Roy Orbison, Luciano Pavarotti, Otis Redding, Frank Sinatra, Mikis Theodorakis, Caterina Valente, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Mika, David Gilmour, Dave Gahan (2004 auf der DVD Live Monsters erschienen) nicht zuletzt The Beatles und The Rolling Stones sowie etliche weitere.
According to this Tweet she did a cover "I love Paris"?
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Lana Del Rey • J-J.@SeksyPaulo3m
Lana a repris la chanson "I Love Paris", puis a fait un discours disant qu'elle était extrêmement émue de se produire à l'Olympia
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Lana Del Rey • J-J.@SeksyPaulo11m
Elle a dit qu'elle était honorée de chanter après Edith Piaf ou encore Jeff Buckley, que c'était une salle mythique.
She said it was a honour to play at the Olympia on the same stage where Edith Piaf and Jeff Buckley played once
If she did sing I Love Paris then it was this old Cole Porter song
Lana Del Rey Online@LanaDReyOnline22m
Lana Del Rey's band members last night told fans that they will perform 'Young and Beautiful' in upcoming tour dates!
The singer turns out an impressive performance for the Paris stop of her tour, reflecting her elation at being in the City Of Light, finds Jeremy Allen
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Lana Del Rey is late. Not Bieber late, but overdue enough to apologise when she finally appears. A chrysalis-like drape stitched together with white feathers and the wings of angels drops from the sky, to reveal a set that somehow reminds you of both Psycho and The Wizard Of Oz at the same time. The stage is strewn with palm trees, a Narnia-like wardrobe and a screen that draws you into Lana Del Rey’s world when you’re not looking at Del Rey herself, bringing you images that reinforce who she is and what she represents. Swimming pools and storms, suburban America, Psalm 51, riding with Hell's Angels and motels with neon signage.
It seems more than anywhere she’s been longing for Paris the most, and now here she finally is on the first night of a large scale European tour, fashionably en retard but ready. She gushes about being on an "iconic stage in such an iconic city" and to prove it she covers Cole Porter’s 'I Love Paris'. She breezes on in a white wedding dress cropped away to reveal gym legs and a pair of white pumps, and her only deviation from the white theme is the hue of her eyeshadow, like Tretchikoff’s Green Lady. Her voice, of course, is stunning.
She’s never been this ready. Never let it be said that Lizzie Grant doesn’t work hard, and if it’s an illusion she’s created then that illusion is complete. A cover of ‘Blue Velvet’ is overkill perhaps, but Lana Del Rey is perfect tonight; her falsetto unimpeachable, especially on ‘Blue Jeans’ and ‘Carmen’, a dagger to the heart of her naysayers. At one stage she wanders right up to the crowd to unbridled teenage rapture. A young boy in lycra lunges forward and kisses her on her face and as she recoils from the crowd her rictus smile remains in place, even if you interpret her eyes as screaming "get these ****ing people away from me".
LDR exits the stage, as is customary before an encore, though she never quite leaves us. A filmed montage like a fragrance commercial arrives on the big screen and her mini-orchestra at the side of the stage continues to play with a recording of her spoken word delivered airily on top. It seems aspirational, like a Coke promo. And then when she returns she notes how it blows her mind to be on a stage that Edith Piaf once sang on. “And Jeff Buckley,” she adds, weirdly. 'Video Games' and 'National Anthem' are grand enough to finish off a truly memorable night, with the UK in May in for a treat if Paris in April is anything to judge it by.
The singer turns out an impressive performance for the Paris stop of her tour, reflecting her elation at being in the City Of Light, finds Jeremy Allen
Wow, what a difference from just 6 months back when Quietus trashed her iTunes performance. Way to go!
Wow, what a difference from just 6 months back when Quietus trashed her iTunes performance. Way to go!
Yes, different writers but still a massive about turn. Anyone else notice that blogland appears to be coming round to Lana recently? Could it be that they are now discovering, with the absence of the hype and made up nonsense that was around at that time, what we stans always saw in her?
