Elton John's Dream Ticket Takes Fans on a Musical Journey.MINNEAPOLIS -- Four DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. Set and Companion Dream Ticket Book Will Be Sold at Best Buy Stores Nationwide and BestBuy.com Beginning November 9 The much-anticipated Elton John Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March, 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. four DVD set, Dream Ticket will be available November 9 exclusively at Best Buy stores and on BestBuy.com. Customers can pre-order the DVD set now on the Best Buy web site. Also on November 9, a companion book titled, Dream Ticket: Elton John Across Four Decades, will be released at Best Buy and BestBuy.com. The four DVDs include rare concert material and behind-the-scenes footage to provide fans with a unique look at a true rock and roll icon. Lasting seven hours and featuring more than 70 songs, the set features three DVDs showcasing concerts at Madison Square Garden Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , The Royal Opera House in London and The Great Amphitheatre in Ephesus, Turkey. Songs featured in the set include "Candle in the Wind," "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?," "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" with Billy Joel, "I'm Still Standing," "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me," "Your Song," and many more. The fourth DVD showcases Elton's four-decade career, including performances from the 1970s and 1980s, as well as more recent material. The four-DVD Dream Ticket set will sell for $39.99. "I am thrilled that Best Buy is presenting a unique DVD package containing three very different concerts from the past few years, as well as some of the rare archive footage from the earlier part of my career," said Elton John. "I hope the fans are as excited as I am about this amazing Dream Ticket release." Dream Ticket follows on the heels of the 2003 four-DVD set from the Rolling Stones Rolling Stones, English rock music group that rose to prominence in the mid-1960s and continues to exert great influence. Members have included singer Mick Jagger (Michael Phillip Jagger), 1943–; guitarists Brian Jones , Four Flicks Four Flicks is a 4 disc DVD released by The Rolling Stones. It was exclusively marketed to Best Buy stores only. The collection documents several of the Stones' shows from their 2002-2003 Licks World Tour. . Sold exclusively at Best Buy, Four Flicks has been certified as the best selling music video, longform or boxed set, in U.S. history at 19 times platinum by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America, Washington, DC, www.riaa.com) A membership association of music recording companies. Its goal is to promote the record label industry and protect the rights of copyright owners. It was a major contributor to the SDMI digital distribution system. . "Best Buy is very excited to be able to partner with a true entertainment legend like Elton John," said Gary Arnold, senior vice president of entertainment, Best Buy. "Best Buy is always looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to bring unique entertainment offerings to our customers and this four-DVD set is a great example. We see it as a testament to Best Buy's commitment to help develop and deliver unique entertainment products in a way that matters to our customers." Best Buy also will carry the book, Dream Ticket: Elton John Across Four Decades, a definitive look at the career of one of Rock and Roll's most celebrated showmen. The book features more than 100 photos spanning the decades, with many of these photos never or seldom seen before. Best Buy and Elton John will celebrate the release of Dream Ticket with a launch event in Las Vegas on October 24. Best Buy also is conducting an instant-win game. One Dream Ticket boxed set will have a Golden Ticket placed inside. Whoever finds that Golden Ticket will be flown along with three friends on a private jet to Las Vegas to see Elton live at Caesars Palace and to meet Elton backstage. The winner will also receive two rooms at Caesars Palace for two nights lodging and $10,000 cash. Elton John's career has spanned more than three decades and he is one of the top-selling solo artists of all time. He has won a wide array of industry awards including Grammys, Tonys and an Oscar and continues to add innovative work to his personal repertoire of 35 gold and 25 platinum albums. About Best Buy Co., Inc. Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BBY BBY Best Buy (stock symbol) BBY Before Battle of Yavin (Star Wars) BBY BeBeyond (Chinese online community) ) is an innovative Fortune 100(R) growth company that continually strives to create superior customer experiences. Through more than 780 retail stores across the United States and in Canada, our employees connect customers with technology and entertainment products and services that make life easier and more fun. We sell consumer electronics, home-office products, entertainment software, appliances and related services. A Minneapolis-based company, our operations include: Best Buy (BestBuy.com), Future Shop (FutureShop.ca), Geek Squad (GeekSquad.com) and Magnolia Audio Video Magnolia Audio Video is a specialty consumer electronics retailer in the United States. It currently operates 13 standalone stores throughout Washington, Oregon, and California. (Magnoliaav.com). We support our communities through employee volunteerism and grants from The Best Buy Children's Foundation. |
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